ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT – Sounding Out Liverpool

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT – Sounding Out Liverpool (EXTENDED to 8 May)
Artist: Matthew Sansom
Location: St James’ Mount, Anglican Cathedral

Giant ‘sound mirrors’ tempt viewers to listen to the city through the artwork, which amplifies the continual flowing soundscape of the city and its inhabitants.

This artwork invites you to entertain and play, bounce your own stories, jokes or poems off the sound mirror, or recite extracts from the films, books and  entertainers of Liverpool, whose words are etched on the surrounding ground.

Text researched by Jeff Young, painted by Visual Minutes Consortium.
Location provided with the kind permission of Anglican Cathedral.

Instructions :
Place your head at the dish centre (not too far in) and listen!
Have a friend whisper from afar 
Throw your voice 
Speak the poems, recite your own
Experiment… sound Liverpool out!

The poems are :

• Extract from “Shirley Valentine” by Willy Russell © Methuen Drama, an imprint of A&C Black Publishers Ltd.
• Extract from “Sky in the Pie!” by Roger McGough from Sky in the Pie (Copyright © Roger McGough 1983) is reproduced by permission of United Agents Limited on behalf of Roger McGough
• Extract from “Liverpool, 1890′ ” by John Masefield. With thanks to The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of John Masefield.
• Extract from “Cosmic” by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Copyright © Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Reproduced by permission of the author.
• “Happiness” by Ken Dodd. Copyright © Ken Dodd. Reproduced by permission of the author.
• Extract from ” Harriet Said” by Beryl Bainbridge. Copyright © Beryl Bainbridge.  Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Johnson & Alcock Ltd.
• “A Small Dragon” by Brian Patten. Copyright © Brian Patten.  Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.
• Extract from “BRASS” by Helen Walsh. Copyright © Helen Walsh, 2005
• “Heart As Big As Liverpool” by Pete Wylie. Copyright © Pete Wylie, 100% UMP
• ‘Liverpool Lou’ by Dominic Behan (©) 1964, EMI Miller Catalog Inc, W8 5SW
• “Weather Rapport” by Levi Tafari. Copyright © Levi Tafari. Reproduced by permission of the author.
• Folk Ballad, The Leaving of Liverpool

The Trail Themes

TRANSPORT – Stephenson’s Destinator

SOCIAL JUSTICE & RADICALS – Mary Bamber – A Revolutionary Woman

LIVERPOOL GREATS – 22 Portraits

OPEN SPACES & ARCHITECTURE – Mythophones

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY – Heaven & Earth

TRADE & COMMERCE – Sugar & Chain

MUSIC – Echoes & Whispers

SPORT – The Runner

MARITIME – Fish & Ships

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT – Sounding Out Liverpool

HEALTH – X-Ray Ted Golf Bug

ST HELENS – Where Stars Are Made

WIRRAL – Kelda Discovers the Wirral