Levels 1: triptych: air – Irving Paul Kinnersley, Fil Susan Kinnersley
Levels 1 is the first of a proposed series of audio-visual works developed in response to many hours spent walking, filming and recording on the ‘Avalon Marshes’. Situated on the Somerset Levels, England, the marshes are an extensive network of nature reserves which have been formed from old peat works. Water, marsh, scrub and reeds provide a rich environment for wildlife and the area is particularly rich in bird life.
The piece explores activity taking place in the air above the Levels evoking three types of flight moving from mass to singularity: the overwhelming experience of starlings roosting, the static dance of midges and the flight of a solitary cormorant.
Irving Paul Kinnersley, Fil Susan Kinnersley
Irving Kinnersley holds a degree in English and Religious Studies, a Master’s in Modern Literature, a MMus in Creative music Technology and is studying for a PhD at University of Manchester. His work, which has been performed at numerous peer assessed festivals, his work Elegy1 won the 2022 Klang International Electroacoustic Competition (student category) and Estuary 2 was a finalist in the 2023 Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Competition. His work is informed by both the soundscape and electroacoustic traditions.
Finn Kinnersley, has a degree in Anthropology, a Masters in Information Technology and is studying for a PhD in Psychology. Her photography and video work has explored a variety of genres but in recent years she has focused on the natural world, exploring it through a mixture of abstraction and naturalism. Recent video performances include Seeing Sound and the MANTIS Festival
