The Cape Jeremy Affair

• Main Author: Vear, Craig
• Format: Musical Notation
• Language: unknown
• Published: Composers Edition 2015
• Subjects: composition; AI; human-computer interaction; Antarctic; Jeremy; Stonington; Stonington Island; Fossil Bluff; Cape Jeremy; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey; Huskies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11367; http://composersedition.com/composers/craigvear/ce-cv1tcja1

The Cape Jeremy Affair is an experimental music theatre composition for 2 musicians and 2 laptop computers. It is created from a text: a 1969 sledge report from the British Antarctic Survey that described an arduous, and ultimately aborted, rescue attempt by four dog teams from Stonington Island to Fossil Bluff, where several geophysicists had sought shelter following a plane crash. The 30-day trip started as a routine dog sledging expedition conducting a geophysical survey along the way. But it ended up being a survival exercise with 4 men and 27 huskies adrift on an ice floe. The Cape Jeremy Affair was commissioned by York Theatre Royal. The Cape Jeremy Affair is an experimental music theatre composition for 2 musicians and 2 laptop computers. It is created from a text: a 1969 sledge report from the British Antarctic Survey that described an arduous, and ultimately aborted, rescue attempt by four dog teams from Stonington Island to Fossil Bluff, where several geophysicists had sought shelter following a plane crash. The 30-day trip started as a routine dog sledging expedition conducting a geophysical survey along the way. But it ended up being a survival exercise with 4 men and 27 huskies adrift on an ice floe. The Cape Jeremy Affair was commissioned by York Theatre Royal.