Telluric Translations started as a remote collaboration project in January 2021.
Quee wrote and recorded with Luke Plumb, Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach over the following 18 months, drawing inspiration from the landscape.
Working with engineer and producer Mattie Foulds to record and release this album.
Quee has composed for many dance and theatre productions, including The River by Barrowland Ballet and The Buke of The Howlat by Findhorn Bay Arts. He created music for What Moves You, A series of outdoor Performances, filmed and shown at Dance Live and more recently has composed and performed music in a show for children titled My Friend Selkie with dancers Niamh O'Loughlan and Laura Booth, directed by Dawn Hartley.
In May 2019 Quee walked from Lochinver to Clachtoll in the north west of Scotland with musicians Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach. They took some notes and photos along the way to remember their journey. When they returned home they improvised and edited their music and Dave Martin Joined the on Percussion to create this EP inspired by what they had seen and heard along the way. It was released on Bandcamp in 2020.
Quee contributes to Trees for Life and has created a Telluric Translations Grove.
If you would like to add to this grove just scroll to the bottom of the Trees for Life window and click add to this grove, to plant native trees in Scotland.
The Bog Blanket
The Bog Blanket is a dance and puppetry solo inspired by the landscape and wildlife of the Flow Country in Caithness and Sutherland. The solo was originally commissioned in 2021 for What Moves You?CIC in partnership with Lyth Arts Centre. It features original music by composer Quee MacArthur and eclectic costume by eco-designer Mona Kastell. During 2022, Julia performed The Bog Blanket at the WE Want Health Festival in Thurso, at Belladrum, at Orkney Climate Festival and UHI Flow Country Research Conference in October 2022.
In the work Julia explores elements of the natural environment of the Flow Country: the tussocky hummocks of grasses, heather and moss that are found in bog pools; the rivulets of water trickling through the peatland; the land shifting, changing, vibrating. And she also reflects on her emotional response to walking through this landscape and facing challenges and finding joy along the way.