He hosts Tough Matter, a monthly broadcast on NTS Radio, and also facilitates Open Deck – a series of gatherings giving space to collectively listen and hold discursive space around relationships to music, sound and oral histories.Īyesha Hameed: Radio Brown Atlantis with Shivanee Ramlochan His practice encompasses audio-visual installations, collaborations, radio broadcasts, performances and ongoing research projects that make connections between public space, sonic fiction, memory and citizenship.
Holmes’ work traces the nuances, legacies and unique authority of music from Jamaica and its political, social and cultural contexts. Pending, Still (Sync n Feeling Dub) examines the potential of music and DJing as a valuable research methodology, to think about cultural memory, generational cycles of re-visiting sound and ways that we define and understand our relation to history, nature, affect and space.Īshley Holmes is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Sheffield interested in the collection, dissemination and presentation of music and sound. The audio piece is informed by Holmes’ interest in links between the ecologies, social contexts and nuances of Dub and music from Jamaica during the 1970s, to Grime and it’s continually mutating subgenres in Britain, in the early-mid 2000’s to present day. The piece utilises various digital effects, delays and echoes to journey through and connect Britain and the Caribbean, making reference to Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, an exploration of relational belonging as a decolonial poetic intervention. Pending, Still (Sync n Feeling Dub) is an experimental composition that weaves together an accumulation of fleeting and momentary incidents in sound that have been manipulated, layered and sampled from various digital and analogue music recordings, performances, vocals and field recordings. Ashley Holmes has created a new sound piece that documents an exploration of liminality, Black geographies, and how musical traditions derived from the Caribbean have travelled.