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Perdendosi: Edmund de Waal, Norman McBeath & Alexandra Harris
Perdendosi: Edmund de Waal, Norman McBeath & Alexandra Harris
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Perdendosi: an instruction, typically at the end of a piece, for musicians to gradually diminish in volume, tempo and tone, to the point of disappearance. Photographer Norman McBeath uses the term to describe the way his images of fallen leaves portray how they lose colour and volume, turning from living things into something like parchment. During lockdown, McBeath’s images were a constant companion to artist and writer Edmund de Waal, who responds to them here with a series of texts evoking change, decay and transformation, a unique collaboration beautifully documented in a new book from Hazel Press.McBeath and de Waal are in conversation with Alexandra Harris, Professor of English at Birmingham University and author of Weatherland and Romantic Moderns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Dec 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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