PURE Soundbath - Slow TV for Lockdown

Press Release

PURE Soundbath from Chris Lewis on Vimeo.
A lockdown film made 9000 miles apart - "like going on holiday for three weeks".

Australian Filmmaker Chris Lewis and English Composer David Lol Perry teamed-up around the world to create ‘PURE Soundbath’, a new Slow TV film to calm lockdown nerves (but does make us want to travel again!).

David, best-known for his charting 2017 Warner Classics album ‘Three Wings’ featuring Winchester College’s Quirister boys, ‘met’ Geraldton, WA based Chris, a cameraman for broadcaster ABC, on Twitter. David was unable to continue his sell-out ‘Soundbaths’, gigs where guests lie down and drift-off, immersed in hi-res music. Chris wanted to make a ‘Slow TV’ film, that too, mesmerises.

The music was recorded in ‘3D’ or ‘Binaural’ sound to replicate the surround sound of the soundbaths. Chris’s sumptuous photography includes stunning underwater shots, even underneath waves as well as gorgeous drone panoramas. It was largely shot in Merimbula, New South Wales. The result is an engaging and extremely calming experience. The hour-long film is available to buy or rent on Vimeo.

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The Slow TV Podcast recorded an interview with Chris Lewis and David Perry about their film, find it on THIS LINK.

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Press Release (UK) - 17th May and Slow TV - Norway's Constitution Day Celebrations in Liverpool

BEGINS

17 Mai Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles

The Liverpool International Nordic Community (LiNC) will be celebrating Norway’s national day on May 17th including an exploration of a Norwegian phenomenon soon coming to UK TV screens. You just might have heard of Slow TV, which the BBC will be showing on BBC4 during the General Election week.

LiNC is based at the Nordic church on Park Lane just off the city centre. Built in 1884 it caters for all Nordic nations, ex pats, visitors, descendants and friends, acting not only as a place of worship but as a cultural centre. Norway’s Constitution Day is celebrated with festivities, parades and flag waving by Norwegians around the world, including in Liverpool. This year, as usual, the Nordic Church will gather at the memorial on the Pier Head followed by the parade to the church - and as typical of ‘17 Mai’, inclusive enjoyment of things Norwegian.

Tim Prevett interviewed on NRK2

Then during the afternoon a 29 minute documentary about the style of television documentary from Norway - now called Slow TV - will be screened with a short talk and questions from its producer and director. You may have heard of 7 hours of the train journey shown on Norway’s second TV channel? Maybe the 12 hours of knitting? Perhaps even the 5 days continual broadcast on NRK2 (the equivalent of BBC2) of a coastal voyage which drew in more than half of the country’s population.

17 Mai in Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles

“That Damned Cow - Just what is Norwegian Slow TV?” explores the genre’s story interviewing producers, participants and distributors of some of the best known shows with interviews in Oslo and Bergen. Filming behind the scenes at the last Slow TV event in Norway, the documentary maker, Tim Prevett was interviewed live on national TV and also by BBC Radio Stoke about his film making.

Tim comments “What sets Slow TV apart from other kinds of TV is that it is more relaxing and when done in a way which allows public participation a kind of magic happens where people bring their own content to a broadcast. Slow TV is about a journey or activity being celebrated in the time it actually takes to do it. Not with bits cut out or sped up. That’s what makes it ‘slow’. With BBC4 Goes Slow in early May in the week of a General Election and an American Slow TV production in November on ‘Black Friday’, this sort of telly is about to get a lot more attention. With Slow TV recognised as a Norwegian cultural export I’m delighted in celebrating Norway with a screening of it at the Nordic Church in Liverpool for Syttende Mai”.

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

17 Mai Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles

The event in Liverpool starts at 1pm with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Norwegian memorial plaque at the Pier Head, followed by a parade to the church where refreshments will be served. Some people choose to await the parade at the church. Then at 2:30pm approximate there will be a short talk and screening of “That Damned Cow - Just what is Norwegian Slow TV?” - estimated finishing time 3:30pm. Should it be necessary a second screening will be at 3:45pm.

A Facebook event page for the Liverpool 17 Mai Celebrations is here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1421631498144561

Photographers / media will be welcome at the Pier Head, during the parade or at the church upon the parade’s arrival there.

CONTACTS:

Stan Royden stan.royden@hotmail.co.uk Nordic Church and Cultural Centre

http://nordicliverpool.co.uk/, 138 Park Lane, Liverpool L1 8HG, (+44) (0) 151 709 7763

Tim Prevett (Director / Producer) TimPrevett@gmail.com (+44) (0) 7905 597 242

A trailer for the documentary can be viewed and linked to here, or with code for embedding here: https://vimeo.com/121139134

MEDIA ATTACHMENTS:

That Damned Cow

Three pictures from Liverpool 17 Mai parade in 2012 by Ann Giles - please retain watermark or credit if used

A screenshot from the documentary title

A screenshot from Tim Prevett’s interview on NRK2 last December, with permission from NRK

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Press Release (International) - 17 Mai og Sakte TV i Liverpool / 17th May and Slow TV in Liverpool

BEGINS

17 Mai in Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles

Like Norwegians everywhere, the Liverpool International Nordic Community (LiNC) will be celebrating 17 Mai - Norway’s national day. With the usual festivities, the celebrations will be including an exploration of a Norwegian TV phenomenon becoming more popular around the world.

LiNC is based at the Nordic church on Park Lane just off the city centre (and under 4 miles from Anfield and Goodison Park), built in 1884. It caters for all Nordic nations, ex pats, visitors, descendants and friends, acting not only as a place of worship but as a cultural centre. It caters for all Nordic nations, ex pats, visitors, descendants and friends, acting not only as a place of worship but as a cultural centre.

Tim Prevett interviewed on NRK2

This year, as usual the Nordic Church will gather at the memorial on the Pier Head on Liverpool’s famous Waterfront, followed by a parade to the church - and as typical of ‘17 Mai’, inclusive enjoyment of things Norwegian.

During the afternoon a 29 minute documentary about a style of television from Norway now called Slow TV - will be screened, with a short talk and questions and answers with its producer and director who has been researching the story of Sakte TV for the past year.

17 Mai Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles

“That Damned Cow - Just what is Norwegian Slow TV?” explores the genre’s story interviewing producers, participants and distributors of some of the best known shows with interviews in Oslo and Bergen. Filming behind the scenes at the last Slow TV event in Norway in Trondheim, the documentary maker, Tim Prevett was interviewed live on national TV and also by BBC Radio Stoke about his film making.

Tim comments “What sets Slow TV apart from other kinds of TV is that it is more relaxing and when done in a way which allows public participation a kind of magic happens where people bring their own content to a broadcast. Slow TV is about a journey or activity being celebrated in the time it actually takes to do it. Not with bits cut out or sped up. That’s what makes it ‘slow’. With BBC4 Goes Slow in early May in the week of a General Election and an American Slow TV production in November on ‘Black Friday’, this sort of telly is about to get a lot more attention. With Slow TV recognised as a Norwegian cultural export I’m delighted in celebrating Norway with a screening of it at the Nordic Church in Liverpool for Syttende Mai”.

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

17 Mai Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles

The event in Liverpool starts at 1pm with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Norwegian memorial plaque at the Pier Head, followed by a parade to the church where refreshments will be served. Some people choose to await the parade at the church. Then at 2:30pm approximate there will be a short talk and screening of “That Damned Cow - Just what is Norwegian Slow TV?” - estimated finishing time 3:30pm. Should it be necessary a second screening will be at 3:45pm.

A Facebook event page for the Liverpool 17 Mai Celebrations is here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1421631498144561

Photographers / media will be welcome at the Pier Head, during the parade or at the church upon the parade’s arrival there.

CONTACTS:

Stan Royden stan.royden@hotmail.co.uk Nordic Church and Cultural Centre

http://nordicliverpool.co.uk/, 138 Park Lane, Liverpool L1 8HG, (+44) (0) 151 709 7763

Tim Prevett (Director / Producer) TimPrevett@gmail.com (+44) (0) 7905 597 242

A trailer for the documentary can be viewed and linked to here, or with code for embedding here: https://vimeo.com/121139134

MEDIA ATTACHMENTS:

That Damned Cow

Three pictures from Liverpool 17 Mai parade in 2012 by Ann Giles - please retain watermark or credit if used

A screenshot from the documentary title

A screenshot from Tim Prevett’s interview on NRK2 last December, with permission from NRK

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Press Release - UK Student making documentary about Slow TV

If you are in Norway you might have heard about the 60 hour continuous hymn book sing through coming on NRK2 at the end of November. If you are outside of Norway it may come as something of a surprise.

The event is bringing hundreds of choirs and thousands of people from all over Norway and indeed some folk from abroad. One of those will be Tim Prevett, a Masters Degree student from The University of Salford near Manchester studying documentary production. Tim is researching and filming for a documentary about Norwegian Slow TV.

“Last year I was thinking that there had to be a different way of doing a TV documentary, some other way to give a different experience for the viewer. Then I heard of what NRK had been doing since 2009 with what we now call Slow TV, or Sakte TV as the Norwegian word of the year for 2013 would have it.”

“The hymn book project is the latest incarnation of a documentary style which has come to be called Slow TV. It started out with a 7 hour train journey from Bergen to Oslo in 2009 with a number of other projects which have included live knitting, a fire and a five and half day continuous televised boat trip along Norway's coast. This 'Sakte TV' allows televised events to unfold at the pace in which they happen. No speeding up, cutting out or slowing down.”

“As I’ve learnt more about it the more I have felt this is a format of TV which can add something very different, something very positive into the mix of what we receive from our broadcasters. Having filmed in Oslo and Bergen in August my attention now turns to Trondheim.”

Tim will be filming behind the scenes at “Salmeboka Minutt for Minutt”; he adds, “I’ll be recording content for my film and interviewing participants and public in English. This is a one off opportunity and I am so grateful to share in this as part of my studies. Not only have I learnt so much about this area of media but about Norway. I will be back!”

Tim’s film will be completed early next year, and in the meantime he is blogging about Slow TV at www.slowtelevision.blogspot.co.uk

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A 60 Hour live Norwegian Slow TV Songs of Praise

Imagine a live broadcast of Songs of Praise lasting 60 hours with Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New being sung from cover to cover. This would feature around 200 choirs on a rota, occasional transmissions from choirs in other major cities and one from abroad.

Norwegian broadcaster NRK is doing just that from noon local time on Friday 28th November to just before midnight on Sunday 30th November. Based at Our Lady's Church in Trondheim, this will be a marathon live singing through of all 899 hymns in the 2013 revision of the Norwegian Hymnbook (Norsk Salmebok). No advert breaks either.

Called "Salmeboka Minutt for Minutt" (The Hymn Book - Minute by Minute), it is the latest incarnation of a documentary style which has come to be called Slow TV. It started out with a 7 hour train journey from Bergen to Oslo in 2009 with a number of other projects which have included live knitting, a fire and a five and half day continuous televised boat trip along Norway's coast. This 'Sakte TV' allows televised events to unfold at the pace in which they happen. No speeding up, cutting out or slowing down.

The hymn book event will cover songs in the two main Norwegian languages with several regional dialects included. There are also a handful of hymns in English, Spanish, Swedish, and a verse or two in Latin and Zulu spread through the two and a half day show. The ambition is to create a festival, whether people show up in a church and outdoor stages around the country, or sit in the living room TV and share their thoughts via social media.

The broadcast will go out via NRK2 within Norway, and on the internet via the NRK website for the rest of the world. The hashtags for social media are: #NRKSalme or #NRKSalmer (either will work). The official Facebook hub will be at NRKLivet and the broadcast page: Salmeboka Minutt for Minutt.

Since this blog has behind the scenes access for filming a documentary and researching Slow TV, there will be updates and photos here. There are no press releases in English (yet), but following the internal tag 'salmeboka' on this blog will help pick up leads and links to many primary sources in Norwegian.Slow Television -The Slow TV Blog