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Deaf Visual Artist: Hamish Rosie

Posted on 22/05/202022/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

I have always been an admirer of prolific Deaf visual artist Hamish Rosie. In the course of his career he has produced many paintings, architectural drawings, wildlife sketches in oil, gouache, pencils and watercolour.  He has exhibited and sold many of his works worldwide and has produced two hardbacks; ‘My Island: The True Story of…

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.

BBC 10 pieces commission: Hans Zimmer’s ‘Earth’

Posted on 10/12/201919/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

                ‘Film music composer Hans Zimmer wrote ‘Earth’ for BBC Ten Pieces inspired by looking down at Earth from space. It uses the sounds of the orchestra layered with electronic sounds, and children’s voices. The music is so imaginative; Hans Zimmer uses music as a language to tell…

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.

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…

Amazing Budapest

Posted on 08/11/201517/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

It was a honour to be invited to perform on my flute at the ‘World Music Day’ in Budapest, Hungary and also to meet 15 talented young musicians and staff involved in the concert in their music project entitled “Tuned to Each Other”. The concert was held on the 1st October 2015 in the evening…

Festival Clin d’Oeil, France

Posted on 29/08/201514/11/2015 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

Attracting more than 4,000 festival goers from all over the world, attendees including myself travelled to the Clin d’Oeil which is the largest Deaf festival in Europe celebrating the richness and diversity of the arts in Deaf Culture held on the 2nd – 5th July 2015 in Reims, France. Browsing through the exciting festival brochure,…

Silent Night with Nadia Nadarajah

Posted on 14/12/201417/05/2020 by Ruth Montgomery blogspot

This song was first performed on Christmas Eve in 1818 in German (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) and is now translated into more than 300 different languages around the world with billions of hits on YouTube.  I started wondering about the music working together with British Sign Language (BSL) in its highly stylised art form. As…

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…

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