An ongoing collaborative relationship, reflecting shared interests as well as different creative backgrounds.
More information/music from Ben benosborn.blogspot.com / soundcloud.com/ben-osborn
2015/upcoming:
ghost opera by FellSwoop theatre
Music composed by Ben Osborn and Josephine Stephenson
Work in progress performance at Bristol Old Vic's Ferment, January 2015; premiering at the Lowry, October 2015.
Ben is currently writing text for two new pieces of Josephine’s music for performances in 2015, including a piece prompted by the recent police brutality at Warwick University.
On False Perspective - a short opera by Josephine Stephenson, libretto by Ben Osborn
'A playful and intelligent concept coruscating with so many different 'perspectives': architectural, social, facial, physical; even magic tricks and falling dreams are harnessed to Ben Osborn's ends. His libretto was refreshingly conversational, mimicking student speech perfectly with all its grammatical tics and hiccups, as well as being profoundly intelligent, full of delightful allusions and puns. I particularly liked “Inside was a mess of sound and light” - a perfect description of an underground rave - and “The idea leaves its mark on the brain, like a shadow, like an echo, like a stain”. Josephine Stephenson's music was full of elegant and atmospheric strings, made eerie with lustrous woodwind. The vocal line was always beautifully drawn... Inhabiting a world somewhere between surrealism and hallucinogenic drugs, On False Perspective describes brilliantly the part-magical, part-unsettling atmosphere of the morning after a rave, when tiredness (and other things) can play tricks on the mind, cleverly bringing ideas of 18th century and 21st century excess together.' ***** Bachtrack
A non-linguistic song piece by Ben Osborn
Performed by Josephine Stephenson and Tanya Wells
as part of Ellen Yeon Kim's Shelter - a space without language.
Performed by Josephine Stephenson and Tanya Wells
as part of Ellen Yeon Kim's Shelter - a space without language.
Gigs (as Ben Osborn & A Special New Band) at Listenpony, the Camden Head, Cable Street Studios, etc.
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