This performance of the work will be at Saint Aegten Chapel.
From the website:
One voice, eight cellos and an orchestra of East African honeysuckers.
East African sunbirds (bird species) have been singing the same song for 500,000 to 1 million years. They show nature as a museum, birdsong as a library – a gateway to the past that we can continue to look at and learn from. The birds can be found at Mount Kenya, near the birthplace of Nyokabi's father. Did this birdsong influence the music of the people who lived in the area at the time? Did her ancestors know the song of the sunbirds?
For Nyokabi, the enduring nature of birdsong has profound implications for how we understand ideas of ‘lineage’, both in the context of human beings interacting with each other and in our relationship to nature. Nyokabi reflects on the way her African ancestors preserved knowledge orally – in song and music, in language and storytelling – before a colonial system disrupted this living way of communicating. Nyokabi is writing a piece for her voice, the Octet and field recordings of the sunbirds, as an exploration of the rich interplay between nature and human heritage. As a testament to the resilience of nature and birds, of lineage and of oral music traditions.
You can either buy a pass to the entire festival (early bird: €126,00), or get the festival day ticket (€81,00).