Ed Hughes’s The Cuckmere Soundwalk has been nominated for an Ivors Academy Ivor Novello Award in the Sound Art category. The Soundwalk is on the Echoes Interactive Sound Walks App and features movements from Ed’s 2018 Brighton Festival commission ‘Cuckmere: A Portrait’, performed live with Cesca Eaton’s glorious 30’ film.

Echoes App users can download the walk on their phones and explore the iconic Cuckmere River and Cuckmere Haven in East Sussex whilst listening to Ed’s music performed by the Orchestra of Sound and Light. Download the free Echoes app on the App Store and Google Play.

BBC Radio 3’s Breakfast show featured ’Spring’ from ‘Cuckmere: A Portrait’ in this morning’s coverage of the Awards. The Award winners will be announced on 8 December.

You can hear Ed talking about the Soundwalk at Cuckmere Haven on BBC South East Today here.

Ed Hughes Performance Premiere

On Saturday 27 November the Primrose Piano Quartet premiere Ed Hughes’s ‘The Woods So Wild’ in Lewes, East Sussex. Tickets here.

Ed says:

”My new piano quartet ’The Woods So Wild’ is infused with fragments of a popular Tudor song, possibly sung by Henry VIII. The tune also inspired sets of keyboard variations by Elizabethan composers William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons. Building on my string ensemble work ‘Flint’, which contained dream-like echoes of a Sussex folk song, ‘The Woods So Wild’ meditates on an ancient melody whose origins are long-lost but which bears peculiarly English qualities – a complex of characteristics including a deep love of landscape and a restless spirit in search of love and reconciliation.’’

Ed Hughes Discography