This Land

This Land is an electroacoustic work, exploring the sounds of the English language in its native dialects of England, situated in electroacoustic composition. The way people speak has always intrigued me. Pauses and intonation, sharp consonants and deep vowels, the human voice has the power to communicate through lexical meaning, but also through the sounds themselves. In this work, I look at how the the smallest characteristic elements of people’s speech show intrinsic sounds of these different dialects and what relationship they have to the people that speak them. They then grow into the full expression of their language, and what these different elements, in isolation, combination and through the flow of the stories and opinions they wish to tell, in my composition, This Land.