Sherds

Five Verses on Six Sacks of Earth

Residency, community performances and full opera performance, Nottingham Contemporary 2018-2020

Original commission for In-Situ & Pendle Landscape Partnership. Supported by Arts Council, Jerwood Arts, Sound and Music, Nottingham Contemporary. In collaboration with artist Nastassja Simensky (sound and composition by Rebecca Lee). Sherds uses composition as a tool to exhume and reassemble rhythms of archaeology, place and women’s histories.

For ensemble of 7 to include tenor viol, bassoon, trombone, four female voices, two spoken voices, amplified rocks, live electronics, tuning forks, ceramic fragments, loop pedals.

Radio essay edit using rehearsal recordings, research and interviews broadcast on Radiophrenia, Montex Press Radio and Resonance Extra, 2021/2.