Orbiting Orbital review – Nitin Sawhney casts a spell inspired by Samantha Harvey’s Booker winner

Summary

Schwarzman Centre, Oxford Nitin Sawhney’s eclectic global fusion brings in new writings from Harvey, drawings by Antony Gormley and collaborations from academics in space and ecosystems Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning novel Orbital ends in music – an ecstatic word-orchestra of sound summoning not the music of the spheres, but Earth itself: “the rin-tin-tin and jumbled tumbling of static galactic woodwind rainforest trance of a wild and lilting world”. It’s a brave person who’d try to turn those imagined sounds into soundtrack; enter Nitin Sawhney – multi-award-winning musician, composer and…

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