Extract from audio recordings made for the 'Exploding Poetry' exhibition at Bank Street Arts, February 2010. Music by Michael Harding aka The Only Michael. Poetry written and read by various, curated by Noel Williams - for full credits and more information on the project see explodingpoetry.wordpress.com


Speakers #2 - (Exploding Poetry) extract

Extract from 'Kalulu and The Queen of Cows' by Linda Lee Welch, music/soundscape by Michael Harding

Kalulu and The Queen of Cows first extract

Kalulu and The Queen of Cows second extract

If your future self could travel back in time to talk to you, what would she/he say? Would this insight help you make better choices? Poets Rob Hindle and Linda Lee Welch and composer Michael Harding explore the concept of future selves in an immerse poetry and sound installation.

This piece was commissioned as part of the Futurecade series of events at the Festival of the Mind in Sheffield, September 2016. Futurecade is generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Originally from the USA, Linda Lee Welch is a musician, artist, writer and senior lecture in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Rob Hindle was born in Rotherham. His collections include Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864, and Neurosurgery in Iraq. Dr Fuschia Sirois is a reader in social and health psychology and a former Canada Research Chair in Health and Wellbeing.

Voices Along The Road: Messages From Our Future Selves

Poem by Linda Lee Welch. Music by Michael Harding (acoustic guitar)

Linda Lee Welch - Blue

Poem by Linda Lee Welch. Music by Michael Harding (acoustic guitar).

Linda Lee Welch - Gathering Flowers

from the 'Birds in Three Dimensions' project: poems by Susan Sandercock, illustrations by Louise Grant, music by Michael Harding

The Songthrush and the Sundial

Open Field

Poem by Linda Lee Welch, music by The Only Michael. Taken from the project 'Goat Boy and Other Journeys' by Fay Musselwhite, Susannah Gent, Linda Lee Welch and The Only Michael.

A music-only mix of this piece was released on The Only Michael's EP 'Someone Else's Fur' (Cold Tear, March 2012) - www.coldtear.com

Sylvia's Song

Opening section from the poem sequence Flossie Paper Doll, by Linda Lee Welch, music by The Only Michael.

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Flossie Paper Doll - extract

I am a composer, producer and DJ based in Sheffield, UK.  I specialise in multi-media collaborations with poets, writers and visual artists. 
My spoken word collaborations have included music to accompany readings by poets Chris Jones (‘At the End of the Road, A River’ - 2006), Matt Black (‘The Cooling Towers’ Farewell’ – 2008), Linda Lee Welch (‘Flossie Paper Doll’ – 2008), Susan Sandercock (‘Birds in Three Dimensions’ -2009), Noel Williams and others: Exploding Poetry – on-site multimedia installation, Bank Street Arts Centre, Sheffield (2010).
In 2011 I composed music for ‘Goat Boy and Other Journeys’ with poets Fay Musselwhite and Linda Lee Welch and artist and film-maker Susannah Gent. I also produced and performed the music for a live multi-media performance as part of the Nuits des Musees at the Toulouse Lautrec museum in Albi, France.


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