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Category: Compositions

Toby’s dreamland – for solo flute & sign language

Posted on 03/07/202002/01/2021 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

The Ukrainian Musical Box

Posted on 24/12/201916/04/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

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

Posted on 02/09/201917/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

  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

Posted on 26/12/201817/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

“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

Posted on 13/12/201817/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

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

Posted on 28/12/201725/08/2018 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

Visual Vernacular and Music

Posted on 04/10/201717/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

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

Posted on 04/09/201717/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

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

Posted on 28/11/201414/11/2015 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

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

Posted on 16/10/201417/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

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…

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