PROJECTS | Commissions
Please note that for any projects before September 2022 ILĀ (she/they) was known as Anil Sebastian.
JESSE DARLING - MISERERE
2022
Commissioned by Didier Rochard, ILĀ led Trans Voices choir in working with 2023 Turner Prize Winner Jesse Darling’s MISERERE at St James’ Piccadilly to create improvised immersive textures with Cherif Hashizume.
WALK WITH AMAL
2021
Music for 9ft Syrian refugee puppet, Little Amal's welcome to the UK. Little Amal was created by Handspring Puppet Company (the makers of Warhorse) and the music was created in collaboration with young refugees from Kent Refugee Action Network. The project shines a light on the refugee crisis and has garnered critical acclaim internationally and across all major British newspapers and media.
10 songs for a lar
2021
Commissioned by The Kent Medway Museums NPO Partnership to compose DCIII - a song translating physical matter into audio waves by exploring the resonant properties of a 2000 year old Roman ‘Lar’ figurine.
ILĀ, KELLY LEE OWENS & MANU DELAGO with LCV CHOIR LIVE AT EARTH, HACKNEY
2019
ACE funded collaboration with Kelly Lee Owens and Manu Delago at EartH Theatre Hackney with London Contemporary Voices and a double bass ensemble. At the time this project happened ILĀ (she/they) was known as Anil Sebastian.
SWAN SONGS
2021
Commissioned by Submerge Festival, Quays Culture and Goethe Institute to create a feature length electronic soundtrack for Cygnus - a ballet of robot swans made by Loomaland for Lightwaves Festival , Salford Quays.
transition
2020
Arts Council England’s DYCP (£10,000). A vocal app exploring of identity/gender in real-time using AI in reference to consciousness and the creative relationship with technology.
LIVING WARRORS
2019
The Living Warriors project was commissioned as part of an innovation funding initiative by NHS authorities in Kent and Medway, to explore why people had not taken their own lives, when they had thought that they would. Following its success, and the whole project winning The National Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards, Living Words was awarded further funding to make a series films launched on BBC ideas.
SEA FOLK SING
2019
Commissioned by Ideas Teset to create two songs collaboratively with marginalised communities in North Kent to improve wellbeing.
Sea Folk Sing is an Ideas Test + SparkedEcho production that toured Gravesend, Gillingham and Sheerness during 2-23 November 2019. It was commissioned by Ideas Test, the Creative People and Places organisation covering Swale and Medway.
daffodil
2017 - 2020
PRS Momentum Funded Debut music film Daffodil released on NOWNESS in 2020. The film is a surreal examination of the moral implications of artificial intelligence through the lens of ILĀ’s imagination.
BRINGING THE INSIDE OUT - LIVING WORDS
2020
"Bringing The Inside Out" is a publication which includes the powerful words of people with a dementia, staff in care homes, and relatives. Voices featured are from across the whole of the UK, and the book focusses on the experience of the Covid pandemic in 2020. All of the pieces have been created through our Listen Out Loud method.
ASH TO ASH
2018
Commissioned by The Ash Project to create a composition in response to Ash to Ash by Ackroyd and Harvey. The piece begins and ends with the sound of sap rising through an ash tree recorded by Alex Metcalf. One by one, the choir members sing melodic fragments from ‘O Frondens Virga’ , a chant by composer, philosopher and polymath Hildegard von Bingen written in the 11th Century; a time when ash trees were plentiful.