The vision of Orchestra of Sound and Light is to share the excitement of live music-making with moving images through participatory projects ranging from primary schools to major Festival commissions

Orchestra of Sound and Light projects with LWM include:

Alice in Wonderland

Touring composition and performance project to schools and colleges across Brighton and East Sussex in 2015-16

Featuring new music to very early films – ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (Percy and Stowe, 1902) and ‘Le Voyage dans la Lune’ (Melies, 1902)

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Brighton: Symphony of a City

Sold-out performance by an enlarged OSL

With 25 auditioned and invited local grade 8+ students at the Brighton Festival 2016 of Ed Hughes’s ‘Brighton: Symphony of a City’ to a new film by Lizzie Thynne

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Workshops

Research and development workshops with East Sussex and Brighton schools and colleges

Creating new scores to ‘Summer’ from Cesca Eaton’s film ‘Cuckmere: A Portrait’, directed by Ed Hughes in 2017

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Cuckmere: A Portrait

To create and perform new scores to Cesca Eaton’s completed 45’ film, plus professional performance by an enlarged OSL at the Brighton Festival 2018 and CD/download release March 2020

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South Downs Songbook

Four landscape-inspired commissions by Evelyn Ficarra, Ed Hughes, Rowland Sutherland and Shirley J Thompson, workshops with A level student composers, live performance, an extensive website and free Digital Resources Pack for students and teachers, summer 2022