"Daring and expressive"
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new Artistic projects
The FAll
New Oratorio for voices, strings and electronics (2025 onwards)
THE FALL
45 Minute work for voices, strings, immersive electronics
Re-tells the story of the Trojan War from the perspective of Cassandra (in new libretto by Sophia Carr Gomm)
Drawing parallels with the current contemporary climate crisis
Pushes the boundaries of contemporary choral writing
flux
Helen Charlston + English cornett and sackbut ensemble
Charlston’s voice is little short of miraculous… a true star
The Evening Standard, 2023
Following the premiere of new song cycle ‘Echo’ for award winning mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and lutenist Toby Carr at the Purbeck Arts Week, the Festival have commissioned a new work for Charlston and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble for their 2027 festival.
This new piece ‘Flux’ explores, in musical form, the way that small particles move, change and develop through different states of matter.
New Immersive Sound + Theatre Project… “The Air Loom”
Later in 2025 Ben will be collaborating with director Jack Furness on an immersive theatre project for release in 2026. The project is described by Jack as a “spatial audio code-breaking adventure based on the fascinating life of James Tilly Matthews, who believed that his mind was being controlled through the use of a device called The Air Loom”.
R&D will take place in Cardiff in 2025, followed by public release 2026/27.
a short walk
Silent film with live soundtrack
This stunning silent film by Sophia Carr Gomm takes Ben’s experimental vocal work The Short Walk of a Madman as it’s inspiration and soundtrack.
The film will be screened in 2026 as part of ‘live soundtrack performances’, where the audience will be immersed in the acoustic vocal score.
A Short Walk
Sophia Carr Gomm
Live Soundtrack by Ben Rowarth