Hanna Tuulikki: Women Make Music

Hanna Tuulikki is developing a body of work called ‘Air falbh leis na h-eòin / Away with the birds’, interrogating the mimesis of birds in Gaelic song. She is working with producers Trigger & commissioners Cape Farewell to explore and reinterpret the music of the Western Isles of Scotland.

This PRSF funding will support the creation and performance of the central vocal composition. ‘Guth na eòin / Voice of the Bird’ is for a choir of female singers, created for performance outdoors on Canna in the Inner Hebrides. It fragments and re-builds extracts of Gaelic songs into a 45 minute soundscape that grows out of and responds to the landscape. The project shines a spotlight on the island’s unique wildlife and cultural heritage. To create this piece, Hanna will explore the delicate nature of island-life, the co-existence of history and innovation, the relationships between bird, man and the land.

‘Air falbh leis na h-eòin’ is part of Cape Farewell’s Sea Change programme, a four-year programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles, exploring the relationships between people, place and resources in the context of climate change.