This piece was inspired by a recent trip to mid wales. Having spent a couple of days exploring the countryside and walking on the Breacon Hills I found myself gazing out over the rolling hills which were the very life bloody of the local economy, if you forget tourism for a moment. These hills were the very instruments of a nation's health and welbeing and yet my past few days had been engulfed with Welshness. Every turn I made felt like the Welsh tourist board drawing me into some attraction, folk tale, historical happening or gastronomic feast. The whole experience which I was living through was full of another culture, way of living, another focus which in part was being fostered and generated by the Welsh Tourist board. The National Identity was being focussed in each place I enetered or gazed upon. As I sat on the hillside in the heavily clouded sky I felt as if I could hear the words of this Welsh National identity being sung by the very fields themselves. Claiming their own powerful grasp over past and future generations.
With these thoughts in mind I began to take a closer look at the Welsh National Anthem, to analyse the score and work with both the music and the fields. Here in this protopiece we see the fields singing the notes of the National Anthem, as if cascading and rolling through the whole of the Welsh economy.

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