A work inspired by the Welsh Music Archive at Ty Cerdd, Cardiff.  Collaborating with Rhodri Davies, Angharad Davies and Siwan Rhys.

Lle Enaid (Safe of Souls)

This is a piece experimenting with individual sounds from the hour I spent at midnight at Plas Bodfa during the Sounds for an Empty House project.  I wanted to create the atmosphere of a restless mind, a wandering in an empty space.

Sterly -  I Wrote The Note

A piece written using the hour long live stream of recording sounds in Plas Bodfa on Anglesey at midnight in Wales for the Sound for an Empty House project.

Amy Sterly - I Found The Note

A piece commissioned by Fusion Arts, Oxford along with the Bodleian Library and collaborating with Andrew Albin in New York to accompany the 2022 exhibition "Sensational Books" - a recording of parchment manipulated by Andrew and the sounds of the 13th Century Bible on display overlaid with readings from the Genesis page creates a timeless sonic journey into the past.

Multiplicamini

A piece written for the Cities and Memory "Obsolete Sounds" project, Finding the lost sounds of a past environment and reimagining them. I wanted to link the calculating machine to the sound of birds, and the counting of lost species.

Calculating Machine Amy Sterly

A piece written with Georgia Ruth in response to the Hendregadredd Manuscript at the National Library of Wales. Finding the sounds of the stories within and without.

Clyw Donnau'r Galon

Sound Book Project playing books bound with rubber bands.

Sound Book Project - Rubberband Piece

Sound Book Project - A piece made only with the sounds of altered books and a typewriter!  Some books are covered with wax, some with guitar strings woven through, some with bells attached, and some normal books.
http://www.soundbookproject.com/

Altered Book Piece

Piece by Sound Book Project - The rhythms of reading - turning pages turn into rhythms, the sounds of books opening, rubbing, ripping, thrown.
http://www.soundbookproject.com/

Rhythm Books

Harmonicas embedded in books with bellows for pages create a haunting rhythm to overlay melodies...

Bellows Piece

A group of children walking to the woods in Abermule, Wales.  the sounds of hunting for clues, finding sticks and leaves, the morning birdsong to the owls at night.  At the end of winter comes the song.

Abermule Winter Walk 2017

A distant memory becomes clear.  The scribe tells the story....   
Music made with books, a typewriter, and a pencil.

Write It Down

I am a printmaker/sculptor collaborating with other artists and musicians to use books as a platform for soundscapes

Sound Book Project

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