'Some place, no place' My reimagined sound for Utopia grid position C4
Cities and Memory: Utopia takes one of English literature’s great works of imagination, Thomas More's Utopia and creates something new from the collective imagination of artists around the world – an entirely new Utopia of sound.
Using a woodcut map from the second edition of Utopia from 1518, I was allocated a small section of More’s imagined country of Utopia, and created a new soundscape imagining how that place (and the society living in it) might sound.
The result of this project is a collaborative sonic imagination of what More’s Utopia might have sounded like, and deals with issues including slavery, religion, freedom and even the current refugee crisis in Europe.
For more information on the project and Cities and Memory visit http://citiesandmemory.com/utopia/
