The 2020 Creative Residents

Pete M. Wyer
Creative Resident — September 2020

Pete M. Wyer is a composer and musician from England whose works often involve storytelling and innovation, especially in the area of immersive sound. He has created scores for the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Juilliard, the orchestra of Welsh National Opera, The Crossing, BBC Television and the Royal Opera House as well as creating seven operas and music theatre works.

During 2019, Pete has been busy writing several new large-scale works. “The Sky Beneath Our Feet” is a choral installation for a 72-voice choir using independent audio speakers. It opens in Los Angeles on April 5, 2020. The opera “Ga Sho, May You Be Loved,” which has been in development with American Opera Projects (New York), will receive its world premiere at DOX in Prague in the spring of 2021. Three more installations (one of which again uses 72 independent speakers) are set to open in Pennsylvania in summer of 2021.

His immersive installation The iForest opened in a permanent home at The Wild Center in the Adirondacks in 2017. It has received 160,000 visitors and has been described by Inside Hook Magazine as “Like hiking through Fantasia.” The work that currently plays in the iForest is called  I Walk Towards Myself and features a multi-track recording of The Crossing with each voice separately recorded, creating a 72 voice choir, singing in the indigenous Mohawk language. The iForest was installed in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, as a part of Drums Along the Hudson in June 2018:

Peter will be in residence at Bloedel Reserve in September 2020.