The Worm Forgives the Plough

I recorded and mixed the audio for Georgia Gendall’s artwork ‘The Worm Forgives the Plough’ (including an extended surround sound mix of the work for the Wysing Open), which premiered at Falmouth Art Gallery in July 2024.

The Worm Forgives the Plough burrows deep into the rhythms of the farm’s subterranean foundations; unfolding, reimagining and celebrating the complex layers of substrate below us, the organisms that live there and the relationship between the human body, traditional rural land practices and local environmental and social ecosystems.

The music was composed by translating data from individual earth worms, including their weight, length and girth, as well as their movements across a blank piece of sheet music, into a musical score,

The Worm Forgives the Plough, is a subterranean sonorous symphony, evoking the image of a pastoral explosion from the inside of the earth. Performed by most southerly brass band on the British mainland, St Keverne Band.

Music performed by St Keverne Brass Band
Composed by Seamas Carey
Music score organised by Freddie Hodkin and James Burns
Recorded by Ciaran Clarke and Russell Clarke
Mixed by Ciaran Clarke
Videographer, editing and colourist: Neal Megaw