No stranger to the Highlands, Kenneth has been so inspired by the beauty of the ‘wildscape’ that he has written a number of books with Dan, the first of his Highland Trilogy series being nominated for a Saltire Award. During his residency, Kenneth is planning an audio piece created from the voices of Distillery workers – and the sounds around them – as well as a poem to celebrate Glenfiddich.
‘I’ve always been interested in the chords that link people with their land, how local character seems defined by landscape and history. By the same token, water is given a uniqueness by the minerals washed with it out of the depths of the hills. I’m aware that three men will finish their working lives at Glenfiddich this year, men whose combined decades of labour and service total more than a century. I want to hear their stories and record their voices, to interweave the songs and tunes and sounds of the place with those voices – and those of others – to create a living celebration of an epoch. As well as recording all this in a miscellany of ways, I’d like to work towards composing something new that celebrates a whisky. I’ve long thought that a good lyric poem of a dozen or so lines was made for a bottle – an encapsulation, the expression or distillation of a single idea. The process itself takes time – a listening, a watching, a maturing.”
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SalmonWords - Kenneth Steven, Image - Fraser Dyer
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The Angels ShareImage - Fraser Dyer
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Whisky TrainWords - Kenneth Steven, Image - Fraser Dyer
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Song Verse 1 - Eric Stephens Warehouse ManWords - Kenneth Steven, Image - John Paul
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Song Verse 2 - Bill Duncan StillmanWords - Kenneth Steven, Image - John Paul
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Song Verse 3_ Dennis McBain Coppersmith 012 -
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