Crying Out Loud - Exploring tears through music
Composer Naomi Hammerton has written a piece of music that explores the power of our tears
Naomi Hammerton - Paul Rider Photos @paulriderphotos
Welcome to a night of music, art and a dose of weeping!
Composer Naomi Hammerton (@nai_hammerton) has written a piece of music that explores the power of our tears; this private and personal action we all share and can use to express ourselves in both sadness and joy.
Tears are classified into three types: Basal (lubricating), reflex (responding to stimuli such as tear gas or chopped onions) and psychic (triggered by emotion). Psychic tears have the same chemical makeup as basal tears, but also contain natural painkillers, which is why crying can be therapeutic. These particular tears are associated with all emotions, including intense joy.
Each one of our psychic tears carries the full range of human experience from birth to death and yet, under a microscope, the emotion caught within each teardrop looks completely different. Macro photography of evaporated tears reveals extraordinarily beautiful and complex crystalline patterns that could as easily be aerial photography of the rivers and ravines carved into the earth throughout millions of years of relentless erosion. And, with this beautiful insight, we begin to wonder what depths of natural understanding are captured in these unique droplets. What wider concept might it be that connects the tiny teardrop to the enormity of life’s entire experience?
The work will be performed by Neptunes Choir (@neptuneschoir ) and Kings Place Choir and presented alongside other powerful artwork exploring the theme of tears, in the Queens Hall at The Winter Gardens, Margate on Friday 1st July 2022.
The gig will be in aid of the Margate Independent Foodbank: https://www.mifoodbank.org/
Tickets and more information available here: https://www.margate-live.com/whatson-event/neptunes-choir-crying-out-loud/
