Nocturnal Sun is an inter-disciplinary project created by artist Chisara Agor, a world in itself since its inception nocturnal sun has become Agors’ vehicle to explore alternate possibilities, examine our connections to our shared human histories, reconnect to cultures, cosmologies and envision futures. While music forms the core of the project, blending the classical, folk, electronic, jazz and avant garde and West African traditions with poetry and storytelling. Agor’s visual art, costume and movement combine to establish a language of its own. 2022 saw the creation of a short film collaboration with director Tim Grabham to bring to the screen the Nocturnal Sun journey through the four movements of the piece: Dust, Penumbra, Requiem for Anyanwu and Nocturnal Sun. Following this a residency at the renowned Snape Maltings culminated in a a work in progress performance of the first movement Dust in the Jerwood Kiln Studio.

 In 2023 a premier of the first Movement: Dust at The Roundhouse earned Chisara the George ButterWorth composer award from Sound and Music UK

An inter-disciplinary performance piece that combines music, movement and visual art. Nocturnal Sun centres around themes of human history, spirituality and ecology. Movement I: Dust explores humanities relationship with the sun, set in a world where the nearest star is dying. The full piece would follow humanity reflecting on our inter-personal, ecological and internal relationships and conflicts in different movements or ‘moving sound paintings’ Nocturnal Sun simultaneously explores a future, a not so distant past and the spaces in between where myth, magic and chaos reside and with it the possibility of deeper forms of human connection with ourselves and our environment.

Supported by Sound And Music New Voices Programme, MSCTY_EXPO and The Roundhouse