I walked up the hill above Real World earlier today to take a shot of the studios. As I framed this shot, all seemed quite until I noticed a strange tickling of my left leg - I’d inadvertently stood on an anthill and brought it’s frenetic activity to the surface (an halfway up my trouser leg)
There is of course a parallel in the image as it looks as peaceful as did the hilltop, but beneath the surface there is frenetic activity as WOMAD moves into top gear for the Charlton Park festival in a weeks time, loud rhythmic sounds pulse out of various studio doors, foley artists creak along boards and all manner of music related pixels get pushed around screens.
I heard Benjamin Grosvenor on the the radio this morning. The Today programme were interviewing him as he is to play the Liszt 2nd Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the first night of The Proms - the youngest soloist ever to play on the opening night.
I met Benjamin Grosvenor back on 2008, creating some visual assets around the recording of ‘This and That’ for the Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound. Once he was at the piano he transcended any idea of age and became probably the most assured person in the room.
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