Eco Opera is a multi-dimensional love song to our planet, blending diverse recordings into a resonating stream of environmental music and vision.

Few of us listen attentively to the sounds of nature that endlessly flood our senses. Eco Opera will open your ears, using innovative techniques to amplify normally inaudible noises.

A collaboration between composers, sound artists and filmmakers, Eco Opera sees sonic tubes placed at locations in Australia and the UK to collect and filter sounds from rural environments and botanic gardens. These recordings are synchronised with location video to create evocative sound art in which audio and image coalesce.

Episode 1 of the series will be recorded simultaneously at Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia and in the village of Balfron, Stirlingshire, Scotland. 

Episode 2 will be recorded simultaneously in the Royal Botanic Garden Benmore, Scotland and the rural town of Girgarre in northern Victoria, Australia.

Concept, Instrument and Sound Design: Graeme Leak
Director of Photography: Hazel Palmer

Lead Artist, Sound Recordist, Associate Producer (Australia): Patrick Cronin
Video Artist (Australia): Cobie Orger
Producer:  Stephanie Katie Hunter for Scissor Kick
Project Partners: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Sound Mix and Audio Post Production: Graeme Leak
Editors and Colourists: Graeme Leak and Hazel Palmer

Presented by Scissor Kick, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

This project has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

Eco Opera acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and learn and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

For more information about this project, please check out www.eco-opera.tv.