Turn of the Screw

(2020)

Commissioned by Opera North
Immersive online work accessible here

Based on Benjamin Britten’s ‘Turn of the Screw’

Credits

Peter Quint - Nicholas Watts
The Governess - Lorna James
Mrs Grose / Miss Jessel - Eleanor Dennis
Miles - Ben Hayes
Flora - Jennifer Clark

Members of the Orchestra of Opera North
Visuals - Lusion
Web design and development - Lusion
Composition and Sound Artist - James Bulley
Sound recording and spatialisation - AudioLab, University of York
Recording assistants - Gregory White, Jamie Saye
Sound design - James Bulley and AudioLab, University of York
Coaching and music support - Music staff at Opera North
Produced by Opera North Projects
Funded by XR Stories
With many thanks to Yorkshire Sculpture Park

In a remote country house, the newly-appointed governess arrives to take charge of the orphaned Flora and Miles. She must fight to protect them from strange and menacing spirits. But are these apparitions real? What terrible evil occurred before her arrival?

This immersive trailer combines music recorded using spatial audio techniques and interactive graphics to create a landscape of scenes that occur across dawn, day, dusk and night.

An interview about the project with Neil Mudd for Culture Vulture can be accessed here.