Tectonics 2023 Artist Profile
Inge Thomson
Inge Thomson has been creating music for over 30 years as a composer, producer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and performer. Although best known as a long term collaborator with The Karine Polwart Trio, in her own right Inge creates large scale multi-media works, produces content for radio and film soundtrack, performs and records in solo capacity and in cross-disciplinary collaborations including projects with scientists, visual artists, animators, theatre makers and textile artists. Recent commissions include 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3 Slow Radio piece Fair Winds (2022) and the 2021 麻豆官网首页入口 Na Trads Award nominated, Wild Edges.
Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn
Inge Thomson’s new work Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn is inspired by the natural law - “If you push on it, it pushes on you”. Composed sound representations of human emotional responses to trauma blend with improvised reactions to manipulated interview excerpts. In her own words “I want each state to be represented as viscerally as possible but retaining some aural beauty and focus, using found sound, static and white noise to reflect different states of inertia and organic instruments to demonstrate the dynamic shifts between these emotional states”. The piece is for vocals, accordion, drums, percussion and electronics.
