The Worm Forgives the Plough

Limited edition, handmade, riso printed book for 'The Worm Forgives the Plough'. Featuring a short story from Georgia Gendall, a 52 page musical score for 'The Worm Forgives the Plough' for a 36 piece brass band and a pull out A3 riso poster.

The Worm Forgives the Plough is a project by Georgia Gendall, commissioned by Falmouth Art Gallery as part of ‘Ammeth’, Farming in Cornwall, Falmouth Art Gallery, 2024.

The Worm Forgives the Plough burrows deep into the rhythms of the farm’s subterranean foundations; unfolding, reimagining and celebrating the complex layers of substrate below us, the organisms that live there and the relationship between the human body, traditional rural land practices and local environmental and social ecosystems.

The music was composed by translating data from individual earth worms, including their weight, length and girth, as well as their movements across a blank piece of sheet music, into a musical score, The Worm Forgives the Plough, is a subterranean sonorous symphony, evoking the image of a pastoral explosion from the inside of the earth. Performed by most southerly brass band on the British mainland, St Keverne Band.

Music composed by Seamas Carey.
Musical score organised by Freddie Hodkin and James Burns.
Printed by Unit 33