MOVING LINES

MOVING LINES:   FROM SOURCE TO SEA
	From Source to Sea is an ecologically-based Moving Lines album/multimedia project which is currently being developed. The music composed so far consists of a series of themes and improvisations driven by underlying pulse matrices which rise and fall. The music draws on diverse elements from around the world and uses ambience to manage the transitions between interludes and larger scale compositions. Originally conceived to represent the journey of the soul from origins in antiquity, travelling down the river of life to adulthood and civilisation through a series of initiations and adventures, the journey is also documented in Images of Water, a series of photographs taken in a variety of locations both within Aotearoa and around the world.
As water becomes a metaphor for life itself, places become as much states of the imagination as physical locations and a story unfolds in a series of cascades. Sacredness is to be found in the landscape. Though the Moving Lines music is instrumental, a number of songs have also been written which also explore this general theme. If you would like to peruse the lyrics for a selection of these songs click here:   ANTECEDENTS 1996: Marraminde Dance Performances, Urenui, Taranaki Marraminde (translation: Mother Sea) was a Creative Dance Show produced, directed and choreographed by Virginia Adams with a strong message about the effects of pollution on the oceans and on the wildlife life which inhabits them. MARRAMINDE - PHIL BOWERING: MUSICAL DIRECTOR
1993 & 1995: The Wandle Delta Project, London, United Kingdom The Delta project was initiated by the organisation Platform as part of the Search for a Sustainable City and was created in collaboration with the Intermediate Technology Group, Hydro-Active Engineering, St. Joseph's Primary School, the National Rivers Authority and the Wandsworth Borough Council and was funded by the Department of Environment, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the London Arts Board and the Wandsworth Borough Council. Platform brings together the combined skills of artists and individuals from other disciplines to seek creative solutions to ecological and social concerns. Part of the project involves the St. Joseph's Primary School assembly hall being lit by a micro turbine installed on the sluice gate which formed part of the of the old Lower Mill system on the Wandle delta, near where the Wandle meets the river Thames. A bell which is rung by the passage of the tides has been hung on the sluice gate structure and affixed to it is a stone carved with the names of animals that remain in or might return to the delta area: Salmon, Swan, Otter and Heron. The Wandle delta was sacred land for two thousand years and consisted of thirty five acres of marshy islands and river channels until the beginning of last century. However, today the area consists of roads, railway lines, industrial units and derelict works. The inauguration of the bell, plaque and micro turbine took the form of a musical performance on 13 November 1993. In 1995 the music was recorded and some of it was used on a video of the work of Platform called VALLEY: CITIZENS - Search for a Sustainable City (VHS - 1995). RIVER WANDLE AT BEDDINGTON PARK, SURREY

LINKS TO OTHER SITES Bioregional Development Group, Surrey, U.K. Cam-Era Surf Cameras Earthday Network Home Page Surf.Co.NZ Camera Display Te Araroa - The Long Pathway The I Ching on the Net VirtualTart	IMAGES OF WATER: Click here to view more photographs.
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