Videos
Delphine Dora @ Meakusma Festival 2022
solo, pipe organ, voice / orgue d’église, voix
Delphine Dora Quartet @ Cafe OTO (w/ Hallett, Vulliamy and Magaletti, 2022)
Delphine Dora – prepared piano, voice
Sylvia Hallett – bicycle wheel, hurdy gurdy
Aby Vulliamy – alto
Valentina Magaletti – percussions
Susanna « ciel brouillé » Baerum Jazz Festival (Norway), 2022
Delphine Dora – mellotron, voice
Susanna – voice, effects
Stina Stjern – tapes, effects
Delphine Dora / Michel Henritzi @Zaoum (Clermont Ferrand), 2023
Delphine Dora – Keyboard, sampler
Michel Henritzi – Lapsteel, effects
Delphine Dora @ Le Guess Who Festival (curated by Julia Holter), Utrecht, 2016
Delphine Dora – piano solo (extracts)
Delphine Dora live@ KRAAK’s NIEUWJAAR’S FETE (Atoma, Bruxelles) 2023
Delphine Dora – keyboard, vocals
Delphine Dora Quartet @ Cafe OTO (w/ Hallett, Vulliamy and Magaletti, 2022)
Delphine Dora – prepared piano, voice
Sylvia Hallett – bicycle wheel, hurdy gurdy
Aby Vulliamy – alto
Valentina Magaletti – percussions
Videos by Amy Cutler
Eudaimon (2017) :
The first film made for the French composer Delphine Dora’s bewitching piano settings of the poems of Kathleen Raine, from the esoteric label three:four records. The figure of the eudaimon spirit recurs in Raine’s mystic nature poems, although this good demon to which we are bound is somehow lighter, and free to part way with us in dark waters.
The Invisible Kingdom (2017) :
One of the films made for the French pianist Delphine Dora’s Eudaimon cycle of Kathleen Raine settings. This is one of Raine’s nature spells, which describes the woven patterns and harmonies in the world which we are attuned to without knowing, with threads ‘slender as light’. The visuals build jewel-like kaleidoscopes from leaves, dew on stalks, and bracket fungi.
Lily-of-the-valley (2017) :
A tiny film inspired by the double-meaning of Kathleen Raine’s phrase ‘out of time moves not a leaf’, suggesting both a frozen moment of evergreen eternity, but also and in opposition, the certainty of leaf-fall. Fairy-gold, Raine has written, ‘is made of a few dead leaves’, hence her poems about ash trees and mirages in winter bark; but in others of her visions, trees do allow a magical space for love and faith against time. Thanks to the delicacy of Dora’s setting, the amulet in the cobwebbed, rotting tree can be read either way.
On a Deserted Shore (2017) :
This miniature film accompanies the French composer Delphine Dora’s setting of Kathleen Raine’s 1973 sequence of loss and mourning, ‘On A Deserted Shore’. Following the death of nature writer Gavin Maxwell, this sequence tracks the movements of the soul in the rings of bright water, flowers, and stars he leaves behind. The film takes on Raine’s attention to specific, pearl-like moments of nature to which memory attaches, and follows the sound of Dora’s piano keys to try and present a landscape glimmering and blurring at the same time.
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