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subscribe with RSSHere’s what Max Eastley had to say immediately after he’d finished playing his enchanting arctic-soundscapes at SHIFT Festival at the Southbank. Using his unique one-stringed instrument, (which looks like a long piece of bendy wood), Max produced some amazing sounds, and relayed some particularly nice stories of fantastic nature from his journey to the Arctic with Cape Farewell.
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"Watching seals, beautiful swimmers, they're fantastic - the way they look at you with a real look, is indescribable. Wondering who you are, and what the relationship is between human beings and nature - which has always intrigued me."
"The polar bear is the most fantastic creature - apparently, when you're at a distance, I did notice this, they're a kind of yellow colour, and as they come closer to you they become more and more white, and they fade into the background - that's when they're dangerous. There is an apocryphal tale that the only distincitve part of a polar bear is the black nose, and there's a story that they cover up their nose as they're creeping towards you, so that you don't notice this black spot."
"The arctic is a fantastic place, and you know it's gonna to be destroyed; so much is there, and the amazing thing about these creatures is they define there. I try with this instrument, which is one string...it also says to me that something that's very basic, just one thing, is a great deal; I think we should all have a piece of string, and we should play with a piece of string, and there's a great deal of knowledge and things to find from a piece of string."
"This is the way that nature works - small things - and it finds more and more complexity, and that's the way I try and approach music, simple suddeny goes complex, and the complex can suddenly be really simple."
Alena commented on Friday, 05 February