This exhibition displays the final product of a process of collaboration between Poet in Residence Angelina Ayers and writers on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University and current Resident sound artist Ian Baxter and fellow composers working from the University of Sheffield Sound Studios.
Last year composers from the USSS were asked to produce a work drawing on Brian Eno’s concept of ‘ambient music’ – music that could be subtly diffused into the atrium space at Bank Street. In November these compositions were played throughout the day and the writers spent an hour free-writing in response to them. These initial responses were then developed into poems by the writers and recorded by them as sound files.
In turn, these sound recordings formed the source material for a new series of compositions – in some cases settings of the poems themselves, in others more abstract manipulations of the source material.
