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Anat Ben-david

The Promise Of Meat

Vidéo expérimentale | hdcam | couleur | 10:52 | Royaume-Uni | 2021

The Promise of Meat song- composed and performed By Anat Ben-David with Anna Dennis by vocally improvising fragments from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Beginning as a narrative song (using Golding’s descriptive scenes of the jungle), it gradually degenerates into eloquent chaos, the slow tribal thud evoking the atmosphere of ritual sacrifice. The promise of meat video featuring: Anat Ben-David, Anna Dennis and Cinematographer: Lily Grimes, elevates the carnal, visceral and unreasonable beauty of the human psych in the age of Data-centric threat to humanity.

Dr Anat Ben-David explores the freedom of live improvisation combined with traditional methods of musical composition. Anat’s approach to time-based work is founded in composition. Her background in experimental theatre (the school of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem) and as a member of electro–punk band and art collective Chicks On Speed, has led to projects such as Kairos OperaArt (commissioned for the opening of the new wing of Victoria and Albert Museum), where live electronic processing meets classical instrumentation in a fusion of different musical genres. In her doctoral research Oscillation and Disturbance in the OpeRaArt (Kingston University, 2015), artist and musician Anat Ben David coined the term ‘OpeRaArt’ to explain her rearrangements of sound-text into musical compositions. Ben-David recent collaborations include Lina Lapelyte (winner of Venice Golden-Lion prize, 2019), opera singer Anna Dennis, poet Richard Scott, Vocalist Sharon Gal, violinist Angharad Davies and more. Anna Dennis Described by the Times as a “delectable soprano and a serene, ever-sentient presence”, Anna is especially noted for her work in Modern and Baroque repertoire. Previous opera stages include ROH, ENO, La Scala, Göttingen and Aldeburgh. Concert work includes Berlin Philharmonie, Lincoln Center, Royal Albert Hall, Gulbenkian Lisbon, and Sydney Opera House.