Installation opening times:
21 & 22 Oct 6-8pm
23-25 Oct 12-4pm
26 Oct 3-6pm
29 Oct 6-8pm
30 Oct 12-4pm
Drawing inspiration from intricate dams, pools, and riparian zones crafted by nature’s master engineers, Silent Architects unveils the hidden world of beavers and their transformative impact. Filmed across the wetlands of Bamff Wildland—the UK’s most mature modern beaver habitat—this multisensory project merges drone footage, thermal imagery, trail-camera vignettes and cinematic video.
Featuring a live performance from the award-winning GBSR Duo (George Barton, Siwan Rhys) and an art installation, it reveals how these elusive creatures re-plumb entire watersheds: slowing torrents, trapping silt, and sculpting dynamic wetlands. Included are time-lapsed evolution—ponds swelling over seasons, channels diverted by gnawed timber, and maps charting water’s redirected dance.
Audible are the sonic textures of their labour: wood splintering under teeth, midnight dives, and currents murmuring through spillways, captured by audio moths and cameras. Sculptural beaver wood spills from large-scale prints into the gallery, blurring artifact and artistry. The duo mirrors this alchemy, weaving struck and bowed objects, electronics, piano, and field recordings into a score that ebbs with the land’s rhythm.
A meditation on chaos and creation.
Biography - Dave Maric
Dave Maric is a British composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music, who has created numerous works for the concert hall, stage and film. He is also an environmentalist/ photographer who currently lives and works at a habitat restoration project in Scotland.
His multi -stylistic music is reflected through a long experience working with classical musicians, jazz musicians, experimental electronics, free improvisers, folk musicians, rock musicians, singer-songwriters, poets, visual/performance artists, choreographers, animators and film makers, which has also led to curating numerous events featuring stylistically varied music – often in conjunction with other artistic disciplines.
During the 1990s he frequently performed and recorded as pianist with artists and ensembles in the jazz, rock and classical worlds, ranging from projects with acclaimed musicians such as Marc Ribot to various contemporary music ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta. In this period he also worked for a number of years as composer Steve Martland‘s artistic assistant whilst also being pianist/leader of his ensemble, the Steve Martland Band. Also during this period his interest in composing began with formative experiments straddling the worlds of electronic music, improvisation and contemporary classical music.
But it wasn’t until 2000 that he began composing for the concert hall, beginning with works for acclaimed classical soloists, including percussionist Colin Currie, violinist Viktoria Mullova and pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque.
Lucerne Festival, Radio France, Cheltenham Festival, Norwegian Radio Orchestra and BBC Radio 3 have all since commissioned works from Maric, including pieces for l’Orchestre National de Montpellier, trumpeters Håkan Hardenberger and Ole Edvard Antonsen and guitarist Fred Frith.
Maric has regularly created works for percussion soloists, twelve of which have been premiered by Colin Currie. Some of these have become standard repertoire for students and professionals internationally. He has also regularly performed and recorded as both percussionist and pianist with the Colin Currie Group.
Maric has long collaborated with jazz musicians and free improvisers; including Decade Zero, a large scale composition for the acclaimed jazz trio Phronesis with the Engines Orchestra, and an electro-acoustic improvisation project called Vicious Circus, with composer/instrumentalist Elo Masing.
Maric has also worked with a range of other art forms from spoken word and poetry to video art, performance art, animation, shadow puppetry, film, animation and dance – where he has produced a wide variety of music ranging from short electronic pieces to full evening orchestral scores. These include works for the Theatre of Dolls, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Channel 4 (UK), Northern Ballet Theatre, Finnish National Opera and the Bern Ballett.
Maric’s long term interest in the natural world and the biodiversity crisis has been a key feature in his output since his 2014 work Trophic Cascades (for two pianos and percussion). Since late 2018 he relocated to rural Scotland to live in, and contribute to, a pioneering rewilding project, in combination with an adjacent food growing project, whilst continuing to work on compositions, photography, film and mixed media projects with various artists, musicians and environmentalists.
Biography - GBSR Duo
GBSR Duo – George Barton (percussion) and Siwan Rhys (piano) – combines two of the UK's finest young contemporary chamber instrumentalists: “a wonderful, adventuresome, sensitive pair of musicians” (Kate Molleson, BBC R3).
Known for their fearless, intense performances, GBSR's work ranges from the twentieth-century modernism of Stockhausen and Ustvolskaya to music by Brian Eno and Aphex Twin; from the exquisite delicacy of composers like Morton Feldman, Eva-Maria Houben and Barbara Monk Feldman to the cracked virtuosity of Alex Paxton and Arne Gieshoff; and from the classic experimentalism of John White and Christopher Hobbs to the contemporary cross-genre work of Oliver Leith, Laura Bowler and CHAINES.
Their collaborators range from team-ups with leading soloists and ensembles such as the Heath Quartet, EXAUDI, 12 Ensemble, Twenty Fingers Duo, Sean Shibe, the Basel Sinfonietta and the LA Philharmonic, to inventive cross-disciplinary pairings with artists like Angharad Davies and Dejan Mrdja.
GBSR's recordings are praised for their exceptional fidelity and variety, whether bringing new depths of appreciation to existing repertoire through benchmark recordings of Stockhausen (The Guardian Album of the Week; “the best spatial audio purchase I've made this year” Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times) and Barbara Monk Feldman (“achingly beautiful” Christian Carey, Sequenza 21) – or highlighting new works in premiere recordings of Oliver Leith, Eva-Maria Houben, Lisa Illean, Alex Paxton, Lawrence Dunn, Julius Aglinskas and others.
Regular performers at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Kings Place and London's Bold Tendencies, they have also performed at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre and Walt Disney Hall, and at festivals including Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Muzikos Ruduo Vilnius, Presteigne Festival, Sound Aberdeen, Spitalfields Music Festival, No Bounds, Cheltenham Festival, Norfolk and Norwich Festival and Three Choirs Festival.
GBSR are hcmf Fielding Talent artists and were the winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society 2025 Young Artist award where the judges commended them for a “commitment to new music that’s thrilling in its fearlessness…their programmes and collaborations fizz with style, energy and invention”.
