this winter
my first music video
it’s now December. the days are much shorter now, it’s cold enough to feel it in your bones, and the year is slowly dimming and drawing to a close. i’m writing to you now from my little room in London ~ actually my first time writing a newsletter since i’ve lived here. i have had probably my busiest year so far, and have made a lot of sound and music.
i released my first ep ‘belong to me’; sound designed 2 professional theatre shows; graduated from college and started university - studying Sound Arts: Design; with lots of collaborations, sound designs and compositions along the way.
the song called ‘this winter’ from belong to me has a new visualiser by Kay Moore (my mama) <3
My mum wrote this about the video:
“I wanted to make this peaceful train journey to go with ‘This Winter’. Having accepted it wasn’t feasible to make enough 1/12th scale model landscape in my attic for a train journey video, I filmed a stretch in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire on the way back from seeing my sister. As these things can go, overcrowded trains and delays meant that with finally getting a different train, I was catching glimpses of a perfect autumn sunset, which I stitched together into the 3 and a half minutes I needed. For the model filming I got lucky again. I use natural daylight mostly, but it was a drizzly November. On that morning, it was suddenly dazzlingly sunny and the timing gave me lovely lighting. The little jointed character is one I have had for more than 25 years, who kindly embodies different personas for me. I loved feeling it come together to fit with Amy’s song.”
I’m so grateful for the video as it perfectly captures the feeling of reflection in the song, shown through the moment of staring out of a train window on the way to visit someone you love. The song is about missing someone who’s away or in a different stage of their life, and perhaps over-romanticising what it will be like when you see them again. It’s about having care for someone in your life and wanting to be honest with them, but struggling to stay grounded in reality and instead floating in a dream of how you want to see things. Floating away in existential questions about the future like “do you think we’ll grow old, do you think we’ll grow wise?”.
It was the final song in belong to me, as belong to me was about this existential wondering (wandering) and getting lost in questions about magic, and who I am and how I exist in the world. This feels like an important part to it, not only because floating in thoughts is something that has come to be a part of who I know myself to be, but also because the ways in which I exist in relationship to others and how I have and show care for the people in my life is an important part of being alive and existing in this reality.
i hope there’ll be more music/musical life moments music in 2026!
all my best,
amy
♡