Hilary de Vries Composer Artist

Some of the responses to the recent video 'Ediacaran' by artist Hilary de Vries and Scottish synthesizer musician Zerøbeat created for this year's Drone Day 2026, an annual celebration of drone, community, and experimental sounds.

Watch 'Ediacaran'
on Zerøbeat's Youtube channel

'Visually hypnotic'

'matches the music beautifully'

'Awesome piece'

Coming this September

Hilary's video artwork will be part of this year's Orkney International Science Festival. Together with QRM, they will be exploring the theme of the abyss through music and imagery.

More information, including booking tickets, coming soon on the Orkney Science Festival website.

'Abyss'

preview image from the new 'Abyss' video
© Hilary de Vries

'Entanglement'

Hilary was commisioned by synthesizer trio QRM to create artwork in response to a series of musical pieces composed by the group on themes of quantum mechanics.

All the drawings were created freehand using an electronic drawing pad, rather than her usual pastels, which was an ideal fit for the brief.

The drawings have been made into a video to accompany the live performance of the music. This brings the project full circle, the musicians playing in response to the images that were originally inspired by their music.

The performance debuted at the Orkney International Science Festival on September 4th, the opening day of the festival.

A video of the music and images together can now be viewed at QRM Entanglement