Fig. 108 The Ruins (Ongoing) _ Freedom (A Sound Work for Voice & Atonal Guitars):
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Fig. 108: The Ruins (Ongoing) / Freedom is a hybrid work in two parts combining analogue and digital collage with poetic fragments (PDF) and a linked spoken word / sound poem that sits with the visual collage. The spoken word component uses text-to-speech and atonal guitar loops – the automated voice reading the human, the instrument refusing resolution.
Bio: Ryan Hooper is a Cornwall-based writer, artist and sound maker. Working across mixed media, his practice explores the intersections of personal experience, memory and the natural world, reflecting on themes of identity, loss, healing and resilience. He is the author of A Map and Not a Tracing – a deconstructed novel about remembering and forgetting – and founder of Heavy Cloud Press, through which he has released works integrating collage, sound and text.
Soc Media: Instagram: @heavycloudhaze; Bluesky: @heavycloud.bsky.social; X: @heavycloudhaze
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