Message from the skies 2019
William Dalrymple's Love Letter to Europe
Tron Kirk, Hunter Square
About the creative team
Writer: William Dalrymple is the author of nine books about India and the Islamic world, including City of Djinns (Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Prize), White Mughals (Wolfson Prize for History and SAC Scottish Book of the Year Prize), The Last Mughal (Duff Cooper Prize and Vodafone Award for Non-Fiction) and Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Asia House Literary Award). He recently curated a major show of Mughal art for the Asia Society in New York, Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan 1839-42 was published in 2012 and won the Hemingway and Kapuściński Prizes and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and PEN Hessel-Tiltman History Prizes. In 2016 he published a history of the Koh-i-Noor, co-written with Anita Anand. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the Guardian, and is one of the founders and a co-director of the Jaipur Literary Festival. He has honorary doctorates of letters from the universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, Aberdeen, Bradford and Lucknow, and visiting fellowships at Princeton and Brown. This year he was awarded the President's medal of the British Academy. For most of the year he lives on a farm outside Delhi with his wife Olivia and his three children, Ibby, Sam and Adam.
Film-maker: Double Take Projections is an innovative Scottish design consultancy specialising in creating immersive visual experiences using a recently developed technique called projection mapping. Projection Mapping harnesses recent advances in high powered projection equipment, allowing any surface to be animated. The technique radically alters an environment or object by projecting from different angles, onto a variety of surfaces. Video mapping creates an illusion, with moving images, which captivates live audiences, leaving them with an unforgettable impression. Double Take has created one-off spectacles for a diverse range of clients, including The Scottish Government, Irn-Bru, the National Theatre of Scotland and T in the Park.
Composer: RJ McConnell is a composer and sound designer based in Fife, working in theatre and film. His work combines the use of transformed recorded sounds with a minimalistic composition style to create a homogeneous blend of both disciplines. He has created music and soundscapes for a vast array of theatre productions for Dundee Rep, Tron Theatre, Pilot Theatre, The Arches, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and others - creating complex and layered atmospheres whilst evoking an emotive audience reaction through music. He has composed eight soundtracks for the multi award-winning Enchanted Forest in collaboration with Jon Beales, contributing to the growing popularity of the event. RJ’s recent work in film has been a natural progression where he has enjoyed constructing meticulous compositions.
About this location
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