Live sessions
Performances to places
These are a series of videos made in collaboration with Gallivant Film. They are performances to places (and sometimes animals) rather than to people.
Released: 2013 - 2020
Evening Chorus - Live in the Bluebells
This is an improvisation using endangered British Bird Song recorded during the evening chorus in a Bluebell Wood in Dorset, England. It includes a Nightingale, a Short Eared Owl, a Tawny owl, a Bittern and a Cuckoo.
Released: April 22, 2020
Cuckoo - Live in the Dawn Chorus
This is a cover of a song by Benjamin Britten, and was filmed live during the dawn chorus on International Dawn Chorus day in May 2019. Cuckoo populations in the UK have dropped by 50% since 1995 and they are on the red list of endangered British Birds.
Released:May 3, 2019
Pliocene - Live on Air
From the album The Much Much How How and I. Cosmo performing 'Pliocene' in a hot air balloon over Barcelona, Spain. Created by Gallivant Film - http://www.gallivantfilm.com/
Released:Nov 23, 2018
Tardigrade - Live at the Scrump
Cosmo performing 'Tardigrade Song' in an apple orchard in the UK.
Created by Gallivant Film - http://www.gallivantfilm.com/.
Released: Oct 11, 2018
Exploration of music in time and place
This is an exploration of music in time and place and was filmed in 2014. All the sounds were recorded within 200 yards of the performance location, and played back to the place.
2014
Rich - Live at the Pig Sty
Cosmo performing 'Rich' in a pig sty in the UK. From the 'Pelicans We' EP . Features the vocals of Anndreyah Vargas from Canada.
Released: May 12, 2013
Pelicans We - Live in the Budapest Baths
This is an ode to the Pelican. Filmed at a thermal bath in Budapest, this aquatic live session of 'Pelicans We' was the most challenging of all to create. Not only was it a logistical nightmare, but the team were only allowed just one quick take.
Released: Jul 3, 2015
Prefusify - Live at the Laundrette
Cosmo performing 'Prefusify' in a laundrette in Brighton, UK in 2012
Released: Feb 1, 2013
The Moss - Live at the Village
Filmed at Bekonscot in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK.
Released: April 28, 2014
Solar - Live on the trap
Cosmo performing a reworked version of 'Solar' in the Bulgarian mountains in the summer of 2013.
Released: Sep 16, 2013
The Fly - Live on a fishing boat
This is a performance of The Fly on a cuttle fishing boat in the English channel off the coast of hastings. The song is a setting of a poem by William Blake.
Released: Jul 8, 2013