Name: pendulum by Joel Cathcart
Duration: 1 min 20 s
Description: a short song commissioned by Lyric Studios for their 2010 show "The Lives of Spaces" in Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Written and recorded in a single afternoon with a terrible budget microphone, although I never told them that...

4 bar rip beat

Flake [GRAIN]

Flake [EQ]

Glass Smash

Smash [Gran Synth, Drum Amp]

Slip

SLIP [GRAIN SLOW]

The first release in eight years from vocalist, composer and sound artist Isobel Anderson, 'a voice leaked out from a crack in my throat' revisits the site of the voice physically, socially and internally.

After an initial vocal strain left her unable to sing for several years, Isobel began exploring what it truly means to sing: how a voice forms, what makes it distinctive, and why it moves us.

This composition confronts the currency, power and playfulness of the female voice, inviting the listener to play a game: to notice the ways the voice seduces, unsettles and shapes their experience in real time.

Originally conceived as a collaborative sound installation with ceramicist Carla Wright, the work draws on both artists’ shared interest in gender, voice, community and vessels, and was exhibited as part of Collaborative at County Hall Pottery (Sep–Nov 2025).

Voice: Isobel Anderson

Composed, recorded, produced, mixed, mastered: Isobel Anderson

**Please note: this is a single track release**

a voice leaked out through a crack in my throat

a short song commissioned by Lyric Studios for their 2010 show "The Lives of Spaces" in Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Written and recorded in a single afternoon with a terrible budget microphone, although I never told them that... 


pendulum

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visual artist

contact: joelcathcartmusic@gmail.com

pendulum

Joel Cathcart

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