Terry Flaxton & Emily Burridge
Emily Burridge, cellist and composer, and I have worked together on a series of projects with Emily creating the musical compositions and myself the image scapes. Below are the different series of works we've created.

TO STAND AND STARE: A SOMERSET LANDSCAPE 2011/2020 62 minutes

Initially I had played with Emily at one or two small events and then I asked her to come and extemporise on a theme which we recorded and I then derived a soundtrack for a long-form art documentary called To Stand and Stare: A Somerset Landscape (Shot and edited from 2011 to 2020). 

This began as an exhibition for which we gathered 25 interviews - then we started to gather footage of the participants and then the edit took some years to find the correct form (and we shot more footage as we went. This is effectively an 'art documentary' as we integrated a series of artworks into the piece which characterised Somerset.

SANCTUS  - 2018 - 6 minutes 16 seconds
From Sedition Art: Sanctus is the first part released from Terry Flaxton’s A Digital Requiem which is a series of audio-visual works created for Sedition.
The music for Sanctus was recorded by Emily Burridge in Chartres Cathedral and is a sound composition taken from an improvisation by the cellist whilst working in that space. Flaxton visually creates both an exterior and interior space for Burridge’s composition to work within. Here Flaxton alludes to the power of the cathedral space, through the use of images of trees whose forms are echoed in the architecture of the Corinthian columns of Chartres. This counterpoint, interior space and exterior space, analogue space and digital space, manufactured and natural space are woven together in Sanctus as an interconnecting practice which speaks about the relationship of the analogue and the digital at this point in time, and their future relationship to the quantum age. Recent quantum work proposes that instead of being eternally real, the world comes into being and goes out of being between every moment produced in time/space. The eternal underlying evidence of the presence of the ‘sanctus’ or spirit of sanctuary is what Flaxton’s and Biurridge's work alludes to. Available to purchase here: https://www.seditionart.com/terry-flaxton/sanctus​

WATERFELL - 2020 - 5 miutes 48 seconds
WaterFell is an evocation of the substance and importance of water and its influence on human and other forms of life. Today we understand that water is beginning to be discovered on many planets and asteroids in the solar system – and by extension we know that like light, water is universe-wide. For the scientist water can become, apart from everything else, fuel to travel through space; for the person travelling, it is also a life-sustaining element. It has a profound and extraordinary behaviour as it assumes many states at different temperatures - and so being ourselves 98 percent water, we share those unusual and distinctive properties in our bodies and minds. WaterFell seeks to recognise this singular material in a manner that expresses its distinctive properties. Available to purchase here: https://www.seditionart.com/terry-flaxton/waterfell

HEARTS OF OAK​ 2011/2024 - 11 minutes 28 seconds

As one of the pieces in Terry Flaxton's trio of works released around the Venice Biennale, Hearts of Oak offers a grounding perspective on the digital transformation of our lives through the prism of the enduring nature of analog traditions. Screening at the Biennale, this work invites viewers into a contemplative dialogue about the intersection of art, culture, and identity, encouraging a deeper understanding of what connects us across time and technology. Together, these works form a cohesive exploration of the world's beauty, complexity, and the myriad ways art can reveal the essence of our shared human experience. Available to purchase here: www.seditionart.com/terry-flaxton/hearts-of-oak