Performed in 2013 – music, visual art and sign language. I can only imagine sounds since I was never born with any natural hearing.
Category: Compositions
The Ukrainian Musical Box
A Christmas special! Story telling beautifully created and told by 10 year old Amber, played on the piano by 10 year old son Harry. Both children are deaf. Supported and edited by Drip Media Music composed by Ruth Montgomery Dec 2019. Best wishes for the New Year.
The Rocking Horse: Visual Vernacular, Electronic Flute Music and Deaf Culture
My new music composition for visual vernacular by artist Zöe McWhinney and electronic flute by Melissa Keeling on the theme of the rocking horse and tinnitus. This story links to my childhood of going to the Nuffield hospital in London for my regular hearing tests. In the middle of the waiting room there was…
Music paintings with Sarah O’Dowd
“Soundlessness intensifies my visual response” may seem something of a paradox, yet for profoundly Deaf visual artist Sarah O’Dowd her work highly demonstrates rhythmic flair and a well-structured composition also found in music.
The Silver Moon: British Sign Language and Music
Freestyle dressage is when a horse and rider dances to the music. The rider normally either uses a film sound track or a well-known classical piece to dance with, or they create a floor plan and film the performance – be it walk, trot, pirouette, etc – for a composer to analyse and write for….
My composition using the Arabic music system and Sign Language
Visual Vernacular and Music
I asked Douglas Ridloff who is a founder and director of ASL Slam (American Sign Language) to come up with a minute’s story using visual vernacular about the Solider and the fly. While the solider is doing a very serious job of marching away, a fly comes in causing nuisance. Visual vernacular is a…
British Sign Language and music for Audiovisability’s first ever project
I absolutely adore doing British Sign Language (BSL) composition. BSL is very natural to me and I like to combine it with my passion for classical/contemporary music. I asked 11 year old Layla Fitzgerald-Woolfe who is also deaf herself to sign a story for me, and from the video material I composed violin music…
Residency and live performance for Dada Festival/Syndrome in Liverpool
DADA Performance Rough cut from davelynch on Vimeo. Residency and live performance for Dada festival / Syndrome in Liverpool REVIEW from www.artinliverpool.com Taking place at the Bluecoat, the space was set up with a large central screen, an electric piano keyboard to the left and a condenser microphone to the centre right. Off to the…
The Spider Dance
Sometimes, the motions of Sign Language are incredibly musical. One evening in the pub, I asked Caroline Parker MBE to sign me a story about a Spider dancing on the web, catching a fly, devouring it and going to sleep. She did this without any script or preparation and it came out naturally on the video as I…