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‘PLAYED IN THE NORTH’
(BBC PROMS 2024)
SARAH VICTORIA
Written and produced by Sarah Victoria, 'Played in the North' is a music and sound-driven journey through four Northern cities, reimagined as fantastical game worlds.
Expect an exciting electro-orchestral score and innovative, playful sound design which celebrates the magic of Northern folklore and culture.
Dive into minigame magic; racing through docks, discovering the wonders of the forests, solving ancient mysteries and helping friends along the way.
With voiceover performances from Alex Boorman, Amber Jay, Danny Wilde, Ed Cooke and Nicholas Knowles.
BBC Radio 3
Friday 19th July 2024
First Night of the Proms
Linton Stephens interviews Sarah Victoria & British-Iranian Composer, Soosan Lolavar
PORTFOLIO - SARAH VICTORIA
DROWNING
Electronic | Dark| Sad
From upcoming short film ‘EndoLife’, Elle reflects on the impact of missing out on social events due to her endometriosis.
ENDO LIFE
Electro-orchestral | Empowering | Emotive
The key theme from upcoming short film ‘EndoLife’, a docudrama exploring women’s experience of life with endometriosis
MEDITATIVE (itvX)
Synths | Undertones | Psychedelic
Vulnerable British students are introduced to David Koresh and his cult
ART LOOK (Apple Podcasts)
Female vocals | Catchy | Jazzy
Jazz saxophone and layered female vocals create a catchy theme music tune
REPEAT JUNGLE
Electronic | Sound Design | Meditative
Unique electronic timbres take listeners on a journey through a sonic ‘jungle’
MARIA
Orchestral | Mysterious | Unique strings
A Granddaughter meets her mysterious and estranged Grandmother
EVOLVING (itvX)
Synths | Undertones | Neutral Beds
Details of young British students’ involvement with David Koresh’s cult are revealed
SIGNALS
Electronic | Ethereal | Contemplative
From ‘EndoLife’, Elle explores the surreal experience of not being able to read your own body’s pain signals
THE CAR
Piano | Underscoring | Family | Emotional
Emotional farewell as Alexandra drives 14-year-old Nora to start a new life
‘endo life’
SARAH VICTORIA
‘EUCALYPTUS’
SARAH VICTORIA (2019)
POTENTIAL FOR future RE-RELEASE AS molaz
ALL YOU KNOW IS ALL YOU ARE
A MUSIC FILM AND EP
CONCEPTS / MOODBOARD
1 CHELSEA TRACTOR
Cheeky, entertaining opening track in which molaz is first introduced as a gobby but normal girl poking fun at gentrifiers drunk on the Northern Line after a saturday night out. At the end, the weight of chelsea tractors (4x4 vehicles) causes London to sink into the sea, not helped by rising sea levels due to global warming…
PROSPECTIVE TEAM ATTACHED TO THE PROJECT (UNOFFICIAL)*
molaz (Writer, Producer & Artist)
Katie Bignell, Giulia Hallworth (Directors)
Leah Butterworth (Producer)
Petar Gigov (Cinematographer / DOP)
Ugnė Kriščiūnaitė, Joy Chen, Ed P-Y (Costume / Set / Props)
Amelia Fenwick (Lighting Design)
Sarah Victoria (Sound Designer)
Louisa Pope (Choreographer)
Tigere Owen (EP Co-Writer & Bassist)
Theo Hayles (EP Producer & Saxophonist)
Catherine Grove (Keys)
Ella le Bas (Violinist)
Sarah Davison (Cellist)
Ed P-Y (Guitar)
Fred Hayles (Drums)
ALL YOU KNOW IS ALL YOU ARE
DRAFT EP TRACKLIST / SYNOPSIS
2 ALL YOU KNOW IS all you are
At the bottom of the sea in a launderette, 18 year old molaz does her abusive boyfriend’s laundry with two broken arms in casts. Cracking jokes throughout, she realises she failed to remove a cube of hashish from one of the pockets which has turned all the laundry brown…
Maybe the laundrette slowly fills up with brown clay throughout the track… to be storyboarded…
4 IN MY BRAIN (WORKING TITLE)
In a dream state, molaz looks outward at the state of violence against women in the UK, shifting focus from the women who have wronged her, instead feeling solidarity with them, realising the world isn’t what she thought it’d be like in adulthood. She recognises that her experiences at age 18-25 and the formation of a frontal lobe irreparably sculpt her mindset
*Creative and Production Team subjective to changes via team / budget or external factors
3 petty
Back on land, in the aftermath of the relationship, molaz finds she has lost a bunch of female friendships - either through pushing them away during her relationship, or being ghosted by them. An upbeat track exploring all the fun ways to be petty and the acts of micro (or macro) revenge…
5 WAVE TO ME (WORKING TITLE)
molaz wakes up from the dream state suffering a pulmonary edema which feels like drowning awake. as the hospital staff fight to save her life, she wishes there and then that she really had been killed by her boyfriend because it would’ve been fast and painless, rather than slowly drowning, painfully having time to reflect on all her mistakes and the current state of the world. she draws comparisons of feeling like the world itself is drowning slowly and that though there is nothing we can do about it, we can try to make the most of the time we have left…
Having survived her two near-death experiences, molaz is still recovering mentally, deeply frightened by it all and insecure, drinking life away on the northern line. the intro to ‘chelsea tractor’ plays…
