24 May – 12 Oct 2025
Earth & Sky
Opera North
An immersive sound walk for the moors above Haworth.
Penistone Hill Country Park is one of the wild glories of Bradford District. Earth & Sky invited us to take a fresh look at this expansive landscape – with music as our guide.
Bradford 2025 and Opera North have invited composers Caterina Barbieri, Nyokabi Kariũki and Gwen Siôn to create new music and sound works inspired by Penistone Hill – and by the music of Bradford-born composer Frederick Delius.
The dramatic soundscape took in everything from electronic innovations to African influences, woven together with field recordings by Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos, new poetry written by Bradford-born poet Nabeelah Hafeez and performances of Delius’s music by the Orchestra of Opera North. This ever-changing sound world used state-of-the-art geolocation technology: with what you hear through your headphones triggered by every step you take.
Earth & Sky was part of Wild Uplands, a series of exciting new artworks created for the vast skies and epic moorland views of Penistone Hill.
Supported by The Delius Trust.
Lead image: © Tom Arber
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