Jessica Curry: Adopt a Composer
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Jessica Curry is an award-winning composer and sound artist. Her work incorporates performance, video, installation, public art, virtual worlds and computer games. She fuses traditional orchestration – most frequently based around piano, samples, loops and spoken word – and integrates distortions and out of context sounds into the pieces. Her compositions often mix an urban, modern edge with a haunting and ephemeral yearning – one which is deeply embedded in the very particular spirit of English classical music. There is a pastoral melancholy to her pieces and an emotional current that unashamedly speaks of the human condition, Romanticism and an attempt to capture a timeless longing.
In 2009 Jessica created the music for a series of experimental computer games by Dr Dan Pinchbeck. Dear Esther was exhibited at Prix Ars Electronica 09 and won an Indiecade award in Los Angeles. Their Second Life piece The Second Death of Caspar Helendale was performed at the Royal Opera House in November 09.
Jessica creates beautiful, powerful and provocative music that has a profound effect on the audience- where the music creates the sense of place and evokes unexpected emotional responses.
In September 2010 Jessica’s new work, Perpetual Light: Requiem for an Unscorched Earth will be performed in nuclear bunkers across the UK.