This current edition of the Listening Shell Songbook includes pieces by Lea Pischke, Thomas Gerwin, Karen Hay, Michael Trommer and Catherine Clover written for the V&A installation, and a brand new work by William Turner-Duffin. Descriptions of works and biographies are stored under 'lyrics'. The previous programme saw works by Steven Brown, Martin A Smith, Matt Rogers and William Turner-Duffin.
For more information on the Listening Shell Songbook, please contact [email protected]
Listening Shell V&A webpage
Listening Shell at the V&A until 2 March 2008 Collaborators: UK Design for Performance 2003 - 2007 Listening Shell designed by Dody Nash & Julian Brown RDIsoundscape commission
Ignacio de Andrés (Argentina) Steven Brown (UK) Catherine Clover (UK/Australia) Thomas Gerwin (Germany) Karen Hay (UK) Lea Pischke (Germany/UK) Matt Rogers (UK) Matthew Sansom (UK) Martin A Smith (UK) David Sheppard (UK) William Turner-Duffin (UK) installation in partnership with DuPont(tm) Corian® and Ryalux CarpetsHow to get to the V&A.
"The Listening Shell is a musical instrument which you sit inside: sound composition becomes the voice of the shell. People tend to spend a long time in them - it's an intimate environment which prepares you to listen in a specific way. The sound is played at a low level - some sounds are familiar and some might not be...sound which teases the ear.....It's a work to make you curious, engineered to make you listen carefully, as if the Shell is talking or even listening to you...."Listening Shell Songbook composers are: Ignacio de Andrés, Steven Brown, Catherine Clover, Thomas Gerwin, Karen Hay, Lea Pischke, Matt Rogers, Matthew Sansom, David Sheppard, Martin A Smith, Michael Trommer, William Turner-Duffin, Brent Williams.
Dody Nash is a designer specialising in music-based performance projects, often involving technical innovation, in the field of dance, opera, music and visual arts. Her work is underpinned by an ability and desire to realise musical form as a visual experience. Clients include English National Opera, Opera North, the Opera Group, Scottish Opera, South Bank Centre, DuPont, Rambert Dance Company, SharpWire, London Sinfonietta, Endymion Ensemble, Royal Opera House. In 2004 she created a major public installation, the ‘Berio Lounge’, at the Royal Festival Hall: as well as commissioning a wide range of artists, she developed designs exploring new technology, notably the ‘Listening Shell’ and the ‘Media Tables’, which have since featured in design exhibitions in Paris, London (‘100% Design’), on C4’s ‘Grand Designs’, as well as in the international design press.