Raise Your Voice Collective: Cities of Sound (Showcase Winners)
Cities of Sound: an exhibition from the Raise Your Voice Collective (Showcase Winners).
More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. The rapid urbanisation of our world has opened up new fields of research and studies of the impact of high-density living abound. In Cities of Sound, the Raise Your Voice Collective bring together an eclectic range of installations that offer the viewer an interactive engagement with ideas of the city, living and lived-in systems, the facts of urban life, and the sounds that these produce.
Many of the artists represented come originally from music background. Their origins as composers, sound designers and studio technicians has lent them a particular concern for the acoustic qualities of life. Our sonic environment is often overlooked, hardly perceived, or dismissed crudely as noise, but can simultaneously be having a subconscious effect on our perception of space and the city. The works here push sound to the foreground in combination with a variety of visual and interactive manifestations.
Cities of Sound: Opening Night
To launch the exhibition Cities of Sound, which runs throughout FutureEverything Festival, the Raise Your Voice Ensemble will present a performed launch of brand new and improvised music in the gallery space. A programme of contemporary classical music and experimental electronics will be mixed with improvisations that use the exhibited sound installations as improvising partners.
Raise Your Voice Collective is a community of artists, musicians and composers based in Manchester, questioning all aspects of sound, music and our sonic environment. Formed in 2010 to perform and promote new music by young Mancunian composers and musicians, the Raise Your Voice Ensemble has gone on to perform sell-out concerts, win the FutureEverything Festival Showcase Prize 201o and 2011, and be featured in the Sound and Music Artists’ Toolkit.
