Soundscape for Enter The Dragon's Cave
03.10.2024
Letting The Light In - Released by NMC Records
20.09.2024
Today I celebrate with much emotion the release of Letting the Light In, link in linktree in bio. I am so delighted to be part of the first commercial album which showcases Disabled composers working in the UK, including the amazing work of @elinorrowlandsart @purpleviolets101 @springle_1108 @sarah_lianne_l @leonclowes and featuring one of UK's leading contemporary pianists Siwan Rhys. The stunning cover artwork is by Elinor Rowlands.
This release is the culmination of a journey from England to Scotland to Wales. From doubting that I could ever write for piano, to initial ideas, an open workshop, mentoring, rehearsals, and recording, all with much support from the team at @drakemusicscotland. It is a proud moment to have my composition for cello and piano released on @NMCRecordings.
Many thanks to Ben Lunn for coming up with this wonderful project and Drake Music Scotland for facilitating its creation. I would like to thank Siwan for being so open and wonderful to work and her beautiful and exciting interpretation of my pictorial score . Also James Clarke for the stunning mix and master, bringing out very best of my gorgeous @bridgeviolins custom electric cello with @official_line6 fx and the team at Tŷ Cerdd for being so accommodating and starting half an hour earlier than usual to give me more time. Thank you to the wonderful Ben Lunn, Pete Sparkes and Caitlin Mulgrew for all the support.
The album was made possible due to a partnership between Drake Music Scotland @drakemusicscotland, the Disabled Artist Network, Tŷ Cerdd @tycerdd, and NMC Recordings @NMCRecordings. Funded by @PRSfoundation Beyond Borders Fund 2023.
Galwad y Mynydd (call of the mountain)
12.09.2024
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_z7D0PtQxi/
Based on Welsh Folklore Galwad y Mynydd tells the story of Gwyllion, a spirit/hag/witch haunting lonely mountain roads, terrifying travellers and causing them to become completely disorientated. Celebrating the role of Women as disrupters and part of Disabled Artists Network’s and @drakemusicscotland Beyond Borders project, It was composed for cello and piano and performed with Welsh pianist Siwan Rhys. Galwady y Myndd is part of Letting the Light In, the first commercial album to showcase Disabled composers in the UK. Recorded @tycerdd It is released on 20th September on @nmcrecordings. Preorder link in Linktree in bio.
Funded by @PRSfoundation Beyond Borders Fund 2023. The photo of me is taken by Kirsten Mc Ternan with permission from Drake Music Scotland.
[Image Description:The image at the top shows an AI image of a dark mountainous Welsh landscape, low clouds in the valley, barren brown tundra and jagged grey rocks.
The image beneath is taken at Dora Stoutzker Hall part of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama @rwcmd. Dressed in black (apart from dark purple sparkling tights) I am seated with my purple cello, left hand on the string and right hand holding the bow, looking up, serious, preparing my mind to play, imagining a dark treacherous mountain scene similar to the image above. The wooden floor is steeped in purple light. I am seated next to an open grand piano a black box with a laptop and my Line 6 Helix FX unit is near to my right foot.]
Lose yourself in Love In A Summer Storm
22.08.2024
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C--ED9NxLXB/?img_index=1
Lose yourself in Love In A Summer Storm, out today on all streaming platforms, link in bio!
Love In A Summer Storm is part live recorded and part soundscape. Take five minutes for yourself to switch off and find yourself in sonic ecstasy.
Mixed by Valeria Radchenko @valeriiiaaaaa
Mastered by Declared Sound @d.glare
Image 1: an edited photo of Jo lying peacefully on a pink flower holding her cello bow with a storm clouds behind her. Jo is a white woman with brown curly hair, which is draped to the right side of the image and has 3 pink roses in it. She is wearing a red velvet skirt and a white blouse. Her legs are folded to the right of the image, and she is holding the bow up close to her head on the left of the image. Her expression is serene as she gazes out beyond the bottom left of the image. The whole image has a raindrop effect on it, which appears as white dots of varying sizes and opacities.
Image 2: a pink flower with raindrops on it. Behind it are dark grey storm clouds. This is the artwork for the single.
Image 3: the single artwork on a black background, with the text, "Love In A Summer Storm, Jo-anne Cox, Available August 22, 2024" beneath it in white.]
Nottingham Contemporary
20.07.2024
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9op8SxR3GB/?img_index=1
Great to work with Emma Robdale and lead artist @elinorrowlandsart supporting her wonderful words, creating engaging neurodivergent led audio description for works at @nottm_contemp, in a pioneering project run by @mysightnotts @nottinghamtrentuni @ntuart .
In these pictures, Elinor is creating words to describe "Wakchakuna/We Who Share Everything and Nothing" by Claudia Martínez Garay.The work consists of mounds of sand, soil and rubble with replica objects representing those extracted from sacrificial and spiritual resting places by colonialists, vaguely described by UK museums with labels such as 'coast of Peru or Inca'.
Although Peru was never colonised by the British, I understand that British museums justifies hanging onto similar objects for educational purposes, but I think it would be more educational to highlight the return of such objects to their respective countries and ancestral homelands. @britishmuseum could keep replicas and tell the devastating story of European and British Empire and colonisation which still continues to impact today.