English Video Translation
Addo R&D Mentorship End Presentation
(Audio Description Blue Text)
(Cheryl is talking)
My name is Cheryl Beer I am a hearing impaired, Environmental Sound Artist. 4 years ago I awoke with hearing loss tinnitus and hyperacusis. My NHS Hearing aids gave me back my life and I learnt firsthand the importance of Environmental sound to human well being.
The aim of my addo R& D Research Mentorship was to create public art by repurposing spectral frequency, hearing aid technology, through the visualisation of sound.
I made recordings' of high tide behind the flood defence walls at the Millennium Coastal Path. Converted them into spectral frequency and encapsulated the story of our eroding coastline into mosaic glass. Spectral frequency is used in hearing aid technology because t measure the textures of sound. So here, in the mosaic glass each mark is a different sound showing even the ones that you cannot hear. I'd like you to imagine the glass set into a mechanism such as cat's eyes, installed as an archive of shore erosion along the flood defence walls, bringing together art and social conscience with regard to climate change activism.
Fusion funded training with Ash Edwards who gave me more in-depth insight into Spectral Frequency. It was during this training I had an AHA moment that has shifted my whole perspective. Since my hearing loss, I had thought that my 35 year career as a musician was over, but from the visualisation of the spectral frequency, I became a conduit composer, repurposing the technology that fuels hearing aids, to notate the marine biorhythms of the natural world.
For the next 60 seconds an excerpt of notated biorhythms are being played on digital keyboards. Reminiscent of a call to prayer from the ashram rooftops.
The full collection of notated marine biorhythms from my Addo R&D Mentorship are available at my website - www.cherylbeer.com
Potential Application : What does this mean in terms of potential applications?
However, from the moment I heard back that very first call for prayer from the sea herself, I have a passion for notating nature's biorhythms and becoming her conduit composer, empowering a global song of nature in her hour of distress, raising awareness by enabling the natural world to speak with us through the language of music.
From the melting ice caps of Antarctica, to the Wetlands of China, to the declining pockets of Celtic Rainforest that still exist, right here, in Wales, which is my next commission. Can Y Coed - Song of the Trees, I have been selected by Unlimited, funded by the Arts Council of Wales, to create a virtual sound sculpture in partnership with the Woodland Trust, bringing the natural biorhythms from the soil, to the digital world, by repurposing the very technology that fuels my hearing aids.
So, when you ask me, what has been the impact of your Addo R&D mentorship, I could give you a very long list like the one I have put up here, but I hope that you can see from this glimpse into my 3 months, that space, time support, being held in a safe space to experiment, to explore, is vital, if the creative industries are to continue supporting the world to heal from this pandemic. I think possibly the most radical thing that I will leave here with, is a complete shift in perspective with regard to myself and as disabled artist and the capacity for disability arts to change the world.
(Background : Notated Marine biorhythms of a windy day.
Sincere thanks & gratitude to :
Addo Creative Consultancy
My Mentor, Sarah Pace
Arts Council of Wales
The 4 other Artists who shared the journey
Suzanne Samuel @ FUSION
Ash Edwards for Sound Training
Dragon Art Glass for Fabrication
Glassy London for Digital Print on Glass
Addo R&D Mentorship End Presentation
(Audio Description Blue Text)
(Cheryl is talking)
My name is Cheryl Beer I am a hearing impaired, Environmental Sound Artist. 4 years ago I awoke with hearing loss tinnitus and hyperacusis. My NHS Hearing aids gave me back my life and I learnt firsthand the importance of Environmental sound to human well being.
The aim of my addo R& D Research Mentorship was to create public art by repurposing spectral frequency, hearing aid technology, through the visualisation of sound.
I made recordings' of high tide behind the flood defence walls at the Millennium Coastal Path. Converted them into spectral frequency and encapsulated the story of our eroding coastline into mosaic glass. Spectral frequency is used in hearing aid technology because t measure the textures of sound. So here, in the mosaic glass each mark is a different sound showing even the ones that you cannot hear. I'd like you to imagine the glass set into a mechanism such as cat's eyes, installed as an archive of shore erosion along the flood defence walls, bringing together art and social conscience with regard to climate change activism.
Fusion funded training with Ash Edwards who gave me more in-depth insight into Spectral Frequency. It was during this training I had an AHA moment that has shifted my whole perspective. Since my hearing loss, I had thought that my 35 year career as a musician was over, but from the visualisation of the spectral frequency, I became a conduit composer, repurposing the technology that fuels hearing aids, to notate the marine biorhythms of the natural world.
For the next 60 seconds an excerpt of notated biorhythms are being played on digital keyboards. Reminiscent of a call to prayer from the ashram rooftops.
The full collection of notated marine biorhythms from my Addo R&D Mentorship are available at my website - www.cherylbeer.com
Potential Application : What does this mean in terms of potential applications?
- I've been experimenting with orchestration by collaborating with other musicians.
- I've had conversations about public art, engaging older people in care homes with climate change activism by inviting them to create their own spectral mosaics.
- and in terms of performance, I've been in conversations about vocal installations, lined along the flood wall, with a view to site specific performance, and replicating this to tour to other outdoor spaces.
However, from the moment I heard back that very first call for prayer from the sea herself, I have a passion for notating nature's biorhythms and becoming her conduit composer, empowering a global song of nature in her hour of distress, raising awareness by enabling the natural world to speak with us through the language of music.
From the melting ice caps of Antarctica, to the Wetlands of China, to the declining pockets of Celtic Rainforest that still exist, right here, in Wales, which is my next commission. Can Y Coed - Song of the Trees, I have been selected by Unlimited, funded by the Arts Council of Wales, to create a virtual sound sculpture in partnership with the Woodland Trust, bringing the natural biorhythms from the soil, to the digital world, by repurposing the very technology that fuels my hearing aids.
So, when you ask me, what has been the impact of your Addo R&D mentorship, I could give you a very long list like the one I have put up here, but I hope that you can see from this glimpse into my 3 months, that space, time support, being held in a safe space to experiment, to explore, is vital, if the creative industries are to continue supporting the world to heal from this pandemic. I think possibly the most radical thing that I will leave here with, is a complete shift in perspective with regard to myself and as disabled artist and the capacity for disability arts to change the world.
(Background : Notated Marine biorhythms of a windy day.
Sincere thanks & gratitude to :
Addo Creative Consultancy
My Mentor, Sarah Pace
Arts Council of Wales
The 4 other Artists who shared the journey
Suzanne Samuel @ FUSION
Ash Edwards for Sound Training
Dragon Art Glass for Fabrication
Glassy London for Digital Print on Glass
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This programme is offered by Addo & is funded by the Arts Council of Wales'
Wales Cultural Recovery Fund - COVID19 Support for Organisations
Wales Cultural Recovery Fund - COVID19 Support for Organisations