Changing Currents Episode 3: Soliloquy Dubs

Season 1, Episode 3,   Jul 12, 2023, 08:55 AM

Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures. In this episode you can listen to a collection of experimental compositions by artist Ashley Holmes inspired by field recordings taken in the Gleadless Valley, Sheffield.

A collection of experimental compositions by artist Ashley Holmes inspired by field recordings taken in the Gleadless Valley, Sheffield.

Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire. 

In this episode we hear a new sonic commission by Ashley Holmes that brings together a collection of experimental compositions made from Ashley’s own audio productions and from field recordings taken on a guided group walk around the Gleadless Valley in Sheffield.

This sonic walk, led by Ashley, happened as part of the Arts Catalyst Emergent Ecologies programme in 2022. The walk encouraged participants to listen with the landscape and make sound recordings situated within the mix of environments. Through this wayfaring, questions were posed such as how can we experience the local environment and world around us with as little intervention as possible? How can listening be a space of imagination and political encounter?

Sound Design by Ashley Holmes
Produced by Kitty Turner
Commissioned by Arts Catalyst with funding from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.