Audio-Visual Installation
A core part of the project is a major audio-visual installation.FirstPeace will be filmed being played on the PeaceBugle in locations such as:
20th Century
- First World War
- Battlefield and cemetery
- Second World War
- A battle site involving many nations, heavy losses or both
- Coventry Cathedral, Dresden or Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin
- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen or Treblinka camps
- Hiroshima or Nagasaki bomb blast epicentres or Atomic Bomb Dome
- Civilian conflict
- Cambodia Killing Fields - Genocide site such as Choeung Ek
- Rwanda - Genocide Memorial Site such as Nyamata, Murambi or Nyanza
- Srebrenica Genocide - Potocari Memorial and Cemetery
- Sierra Leone Civil War Site
- 21st Century
- Recent or ongoing military and civilian conflict in, for instance, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine or Yemen when access is possible: otherwise a related event or other conflict.
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Eight individual films will be shown on their own flat screen monitor, set up in the round. The bugler will play FirstPeace once on each screen at different time intervals. Each film runs on its screen for the full duration of the piece to maintain context. After the single playing has taken place on every screen, the bugler simultaneously reappears on all screens for a multi-bugle playing of FirstPeace, echoing the playing of the Last Post at the Menin Gate each day at 8pm by buglers from the Belgium Fire Service.
Each place is connected to the other places by bugle call, filming and screening. A battlefield, graveyard, place of memorial, concentration/extermination camp and site of civilian bombing or genocide are brought together in the installation to form a unified historical context for which the final ensemble playing of FirstPeace is a core message for peace.
To maintain a consistency wherever it is exhibited the installation will be orientated with the same film to magnetic north. The screens will be arranged on the cardinal points (N, S, E, W) and the intercardinal points (NE, SE, SW, NW). North will be the earliest dated site.
The audio-visual installation with the Outreach and Education Programme will be toured to arts, community, education, faith and other venues in the UK and internationally.
The installation will be available indefinitely and for as long as finances allow it to be operated. PeaceBugle is not a time limited project.
It is likely that the first stage of the filming will have more UK and European content due to logistics and associated costs. As the project develops, filming will take place in other settings around the world that have been, or still are, affected by war and civil conflict. It will be possible to curate content, for instance, WW1 and WW2 places where artists, composers or poets fought or were injured or killed, with emphasis placed on their work, to broaden the audio-visual content into arts and culture.
Audio-visual installation content
Sample images of potential filming sites as they are today that show the differing but interrelated nature of each place. Written histories providing the specific contexts will form part of the Education and Outreach Programme.