Ashley Holmes: Decaying Tail of a Sound

Decaying Tail of a Sound is a live event by artist, Ashley Holmes as an outcome of his Jerwood Arts / FACT Fellowship. Centred on musical, theoretical and geographical explorations, Ashley will premiere a live version of a new sound composition developed from field recordings, conversations and materials gathered during his time spent in Liverpool. The event title makes reference to a section of ‘Echo', a chapter by Julian Henriques and Hillegonda Rietveld from The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies - a volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture. Ashley's interests focus on the sonic processes, iterations and influences of Dub, the sub-genre of reggae music, to examine Black music as a methodology to understand and re-define links between past and present within broader social contexts.