An Evocation of Antarctica

From Music Alive 11 April 2014

Drawing its title from one of the last pages of Scott’s journal, this collaboration between the poet Bill Manhire, composer Norman Meehan and singer Hannah Griffin remembers the tragedies of Scott’s polar expedition in 1912 and the crash of NZ901 into Mt Erebus in 1979. The collaboration also includes images of Antarctica by Anne Noble, drawn from the series of Antarctic work she has been making since 2001 (recorded in Soundings Theatre, Te Papa, Wellington by RNZ).

Images by Anne Noble, Distinguished Professor, School of Art, Massey University. They’re taken from her collaboration with Bill Manhire, These Rough Notes, published by Victoria University Press.