Listen "The Bells"
Episode Synopsis
A melodic poem of ringing and resounding, tolling and rolling, pealing and knelling bells. These clamouring sounds build and personify bell sounds as symbols of four milestones of human experience—childhood, youth, maturity, and death.Thank you for joining us for an episode of RavenMad, a Cygnet & Swan production. ‘The Bells’ was originally written by Edgar Allan Poe. This adaptation was directed and edited by Alexandra Meerbach with Elizabeth Bradford and sound design by Michael Groth. Our theme is by composer, Matt Shaw.This episode features the voices of the Mad Swan Harmonics choral speaking choir: Gabriel Blake, Alexandra Meerbach, Emma Hampson, Amber Jones, Skye Wilkins, Zoe James, Eloise McGifford, Lilly Jones and Georgia Marshall.RavenMad is proudly supported by the Ballarat Arts Foundation as the grateful recipient of the 2021 Jack Anderson Film Award grant.Cygnet & Swan wish to acknowledge the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin nations, the Traditional Owners of the land upon which our podcast was produced. We also acknowledge the Wadawurrung people, the Traditional Owners of the land upon which this episode was recorded. We recognise their continuing connection to the land and waterways, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.Attributions for this production can be found here.
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