Part of New Music Biennial

Violinist and composer Ellie Wilson highlights the UK’s biodiversity decline in a multi-instrumental piece that harnesses data from moths to make immersive sound.

Moth x Human is a thought-provoking composition that highlights declining UK biodiversity. Moth activity data is sonified into emotive, immersive soundscapes, alongside acoustic instruments, field recordings, and electronics. 

Sonified moth activity data combines with acoustic instruments and electronics in an immersive work highlighting biodiversity decline that was written by violinist-composer Ellie Wilson. 

Part of New Music Biennial, this event includes two performances of the same work and a short interview with the creative team in between the two, enabling audiences to experience the second performance with greater insight into the creative process.

This piece is commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music and supported by UKCEH.

PRS Foundation and Southbank Centre’s New Music Biennial is a critically acclaimed free festival presenting 20 pieces of new music across two festival weekends, at Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture (6th – 8th June 2025) and London’s Southbank Centre (4th -6th July 2025), broadcast on BBC Radio 3, available for download from NMC Recordings and generously supported by Arts Council England.
www.newmusicbiennial.co.uk 

PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial is generously supported by Southbank Centre, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, BBC Radio 3, Arts Council England and NMC Recordings. You can find out more at prsfoundation.com

Dates for your diaries:
Festival weekend at Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture (6th – 8th June 2025)
Festival weekend at London Southbank Centre (4th – 6th July 2025)