Songs of Travel
In collaboration with the Vienna-based boutique game development studio Causa Creations, Elaine composed the soundtrack for Songs of Travel, an animated graphic novel now available for iOS and Android. The motion comic explores various aspects of and collectively paints a vivid picture of the topic of migration through the personal stories of five individuals as they fled their troubled homeland of Syria, Vietnam, Italy, Turkey and Ukraine in search of new beginnings in Europe.
Follow the narratives of:
Light, a non-binary Syrian refugee who arrives in Vienna after years of hardship and war in Syria and the United Arab Emirates.
Vân, the daughter of a Vietnamese contract worker who grew up in East Germany and who must deal with the duality of being Vietnamese-German.
Michele, the son of Francesco Cicora, an Italian coal miner who died in the great mining disaster of Marcinelle 1956 in Belgium.
Hasan, who came to Austria at the age of 1, when his mother moved there from Istanbul, Turkey.
Olya, a Ukrainian lawyer and a refugee who has had to flee twice: first when she left her home of Donetsk in 2014 and fled to Kyiv, and then when she fled from Ukraine once war erupted in 2022
Presented in four partnering European festivals: Cellissimo 19 May 2024, Black Box, Galway, Ireland Fairplay Chamber Music 15 June 2024, The Kulturhuset, Järna, Sweden Valdres Sommersymfoni 22 June 2024, Folk School, Valdres, Norway Piano Biënnale 30 March 2025, a Musis Arnhem Concert Hall, The Netherlands
