Reflect on the Past, Wrestle with the Future

In 2022,  Leo Geyer participated in the Barbican Theatre Plymouth's 'Meet Me at the Sundial' project to celebrate Plymothian's relationship with buses and the city's iconic points. Leo was inspired by the poetic description of Plymouth's bus network by Richard Stevens, Director of City Bus, to create "Reflect on the Past, Wrestle with the Future".

The piece is a meditative soundscape as requested by passengers, and somewhat unusually, this composition is a duet for bassoon and bus engine! Every sound has a pitch, including that of a running bus engine. So, embracing the buzzy nature of the bassoon, chords "in-tune" with an engine slowly emerge, eventually evolving into a lyrical melody. The idea is to enable listeners to meditate on the everyday sounds around them and to notice that even the sound of a bus can be beautiful. 

"Reflect on the Past, Wrestle with the Future" was available for Plymouth commuters in 2022 to listen to on their mobiles whilst traveling.