What Your Sound Can Do
(2024)
Short Film
Running Time: 8 minutes
’Experimental short film and visual poem by multidisciplinary Sheffield-based artist Ashley Holmes that continues his ongoing work and research around the genealogies of Black music to explore social histories and the politics of space. Written, edited and soundtracked by Holmes and narrated by Jamaican-British poet Danae Wellington, What Your Sound Can Do ruminates on the DIY ethos, and historical impact of soundsystems occupying public space. Consisting of 35mm film photography and warped audio recordings, Holmes brings together a range of his interests around Dub and post-war Britain, illuminating the inner workings and relationships between displacement rootedness and locality’
Commissioned by No Bounds Festival 2024 and presented at SADACCA FM exhibition with White Teeth and Memory Dance
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Credits:
Narration - Danae Wellington
Sound design, writing and editing - Ashley Holmes
Introduction quotes - Julian Henriques and Hillegonda Rietveld, Chapter on Echo in The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (2018)
Photos by Jashan Walton
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Audio version available online via bandcamp
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