Music

Esteemed British singer and soundscape artist Vivienne Corringham creates music, radio works, installations and soundwalks. She has received two Composer Fellowships from McKnight Foundation, through American Composers Forum. Cathy Lane uses spoken word, field recordings and archive material to explore aspects of our listening relationships with each other and the multiverse. She is the author of a number of sound-related publications including The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (2008), In the Field (2013), and On Listening (2013). To mark the opening of the festival, the duo will present a program that focuses on storytelling and the human voice. In Shattered Song, Shadow City, the singing voice interweaves through fragmented stories and soundscapes from five countries. Recordings used in this installation were made over the course of a year, on walks with inhabitants of many European cities and their accounts of what these places meant to them – their stories spoke of home, disruption, escape, community and often hope. A moving account of notions of dislocation.