Welcome to Voiceworks, an ongoing project that explores the possibilities and practice of contemporary song in poetry, text, music and sound. We are dedicated to making new and innovative work, and to reflecting on and documenting the collaborative and creative exchange between a new generation of poets, composers and singers.

Voiceworks 2010 Live Stream

The first live streaming of Voiceworks 2010, courtesy of the AHRC and PlushMusic, can be accessed at this website during the performance on 20th May. The broadcast will be archived on the website following the performance.

Click here to view the Voiceworks 2010 video stream.

Voiceworks goes live!

The culmination of the Voiceworks 2010 programme will be live streamed from Wigmore Hall on Thursday 20 May at 18.00. The performances last 45 minutes and are free to attend – do come, listen and support. This is the fourth year of this unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, and composers, singers and instrumentalists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. New works for voice are created from a long process of exchange, improvisation and practice between October-May, and the resulting songs are a sign of the vibrancy and creative potential of a new generation of work. Many of the participants have gone on to collaborate on projects in Britain and internationally, or developed their practice in new directions because of their Voiceworks experience, and it’s a chance to encounter their work first, here.

Voiceworks 2010 participants are:


Francisco Coll Garcia, Albert Pellicer, Iria Perestrelo

Antonia Barnett-Macintosh, Emma Bennett, Adam Crockatt

David Moore, Ben Gwalchmai, Luke Tracey

Raymond Yiu, Kim Patrick, Luis Gomes, Clément Dionet

Patrick Brennan, James Wilkes, Robert Elibay-Hartog

Nick Scott, Frances Kruk, Lucy Hall

Matt Mendez, Holly Pester, Victor Sicard

The performances are free to attend, but tickets need to be booked in advance (this is very simple to do, and costs nothing).
See: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.


A contribution from David Grubbs

David Grubbs, renowned composer, assistant professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College and director of the graduate program in performance and interactive media arts, has contributed an opening essay to the Sounding Board section of voiceworks.org.uk. The essay is called Shadowy Hush Twilight: Two Collaborations with Susan Howe. Click here to read it in full.

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Voiceworks 2010 Rehearsals

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