An invitation for ritual while listening ~

Place three water-filled bowls of any size in the space surrounding you

Listen to the work in headphones or on a sound system (ideally not through computer speakers)

Shut your eyes

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Joy comes with the morning, is a sound work created by artist Phoebe Collings-James for their installation A Scratch! A Scratch! at Camden Art Centre, Sept 9th - Dec 23rd 2021.

The sound exists within the precarious embrace of a red clay sculpture in which three ceramic wheel-spun bells each with a corresponding sounding well of water, ritualistically absorb and reflect the energy of the music.

This work was produced in collaboration with Mwen, and features trumpet by Sheila Maurice-Grey, Saxophone by V Belinga and Trumbone by Safo NG.

Joy comes with the morning

Jesse Darling x Phoebe Collings-James, sound piece for Liste 2016. 

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sound poem for my show Expensive Shit, 2017.
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Murder by Chocolate is a sound piece created for my exhibition 'Pleasure Pieces' in New York, 2012.


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YOUNG NETTLE - LE TIGRE FORMATION

In a diary entry for 2019 I found this question which I struggle to answer. I creep toward it, in a wish to catch a glimpse of myself - without hesitation. If I do catch it, to find an unbearable balm, a suckling connection of love without dread - what would I hear?
I invited friends to answer the question with their own sounds. They did so in myriad ways, all of which were woven into the piece. For my production I work in a collaging style, using sound libraries, ad hoc recordings from my daily journeys, alongside live recording with musicians and poets. 
I encourage this track to be listened to while laying down, or a position most comfortable to you. Ideally on good speakers or headphones. Allowing the scene to unfold into the space like an elaborate, sonic pop-up book.

Contributors (& Cameos): Rox Devlin Horton, drums. Sandeep Salter, song. Serefina 1369, lyrics. Zezi Ifore, lyrics. Secrets & Lies. Beau. Lancaut echo. Naeem Dxvis. Mario. Lynette Nylander. Adam Bainbridge.

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