Name: Caddick, Helen: Moon Landing
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Caddick, Helen: Moon Landing

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Arrangement: for string sextet
Edition Type: score and parts
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-hc1ml1
Pages: 108
Date Published: 6th Mar 2024

moon landing is inspired by the little known story of the women who wove the integrated circuits and memory cores on the Apollo 11 Space mission which resulted in the successful 1969 moon landing.

Formed as a duo work in collaboration with textile artist Margo Selby, moon landing was first performed at Somerset House as part of Collect 24 in February 2024 with the musicians seated beneath a 16 metre immersive textile installation created by Margo in response to this score and the journey to the moon.

In dialogue with Margo across our creative process, examining the relationship between music, maths and weaving, moon landing is scored for 2 Violins, 2 Cellos and 2 Harps to echo the strings on a loom and the binary code used in weaving. To reflect the involvement of Navaho women in the creation of the circuits and the Huguenot weavers who brought their craft to London in the 17th century - a heritage Margo upholds - fragments of a Navaho Hoop dance and Huguenot melody are woven into moon landing alongside rhythms and textures which bubble throughout to echo the weaving of multiple threads and stitches - reference to Margo’s industry on the loom and the women who enabled the moon landing.

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