IMPACT
“With this work, you have hit on something people have been experimenting with for decades – serious, thoughtful works of art that have at their centre the stories and voices of people who are not usually afforded a platform.”
Sound Voice creates live and immersive music works to drive positive social change:
FOR INDIVIDUALS
“It validated us, it made us feel that somebody out there was listening and that they might change what they do as a result of listening.”
NHS staff member, 100 VOICES
FOR ORGANISATIONS
“We thought that this project would increase our insight into what devices to improve the lives of people with voice loss should be like. However, the extent of shift in our understanding is far greater than expected and has initiated new projects and device concepts to address what people really need.”
Health Professional, Sound Voice Project
FOR SOCIETY
“An incredibly compelling, directly emotive work which beautifully weaved together and unified those who have experienced voice loss to create a truly thought-provoking, empowering collage. The installation was thoughtfully executed and the vocal/instrumental lines sensitively responding to the video material. I was left overwhelmed and in tears – thank you for creating and sharing this astonishing piece of art with the world.”
Audience Member, Sound Voice Project
HOW IT WORKS
BUILD dynamic collaborations and partnerships
We bring together diverse people from across society and sectors
Experts with knowledge, through lived experience or professional expertise
We value people and invite them to collaborate, imagine, create and work in new ways.
We listen and make level spaces where roles can be redefined.
“It makes me feel connected with such a variety of people with different background and expertise. I have never experienced anything alike before.”
Sound Voice Project
“I found the sessions transformative. There is rarely a chance to communicate with all sectors related to the subject and to do so in such a creative way… was fantastic.”
Sound Voice Project
“Putting people together who would never meet otherwise really helps people think outside the standardised way.”
Sound Voice Project
EMPOWER communities and platform unheard voices
We work with communities and individuals whose stories and experiences need to be heard to make change.
We create dynamic, imaginative spaces for rich dialogue and shared creativity.
By platforming unheard stories, we enable a better understanding of what people really need.
We seek to close the gap between people.
“It removes patients from their current situation and it removes staff from their current situation, although it makes them reflect on their roles and other people’s roles.”
Arts Curator, University College London Hospitals
“I think Sound Voice achieved creating an equal space better than most projects. Equal space means equal participation, and all the people I put forward for the project felt they were fully able to participate.”
Partner, Sound Voice Project
“It is a helpful reflection on how I come across with patients, how I sometimes use a different tone in voice depending on the situation. How controlling my voice is the first step to controlling my thoughts and staying calm and structured in an emergency… how my voice helps me to be empathetic when dealing with breaking bad news, yet that control of my voice helps me to keep that distance and not become too emotionally attached.”
Health Professional, Sound Voice Project
“What Sound Voice did as well, it really helped to draw conversation from the residents, such as a gentleman who was there who doesn’t really engage much vocally, he tends to sit back and watch, but he spoke up.”
Social Engagement and Wellbeing Manager, The Robot In Me
CREATE exceptional live and immersive musical works
We produce powerful, immersive and live works of music and sound.
We present unheard narratives in new ways,
Inviting audiences to reflect and challenging stigmas
Touring work internationally to iconic arts venues, shopping centres, hospitals, conferences and directly to work-places to drive societal change.
“I think it was that act of sharing it back with teams and going look, you know, it’s not just artists coming in and taking from you, it’s illustrating to you how we’ve listened to you and turned this into something that other people will then want to listen to as well.”
Arts and Health programme manager, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
DRIVE CHANGE for individuals, organisations and society
Our work is a catalyst for new ideas, sparking change in research, thinking and practice
Placing the arts and lived experience at the center of flexible interdisciplinary collaborations
Across the arts, social care, health and technology sectors.
“It encouraged [staff] to think about a different perspective of a colleague or someone that they come across in the hospital all the time, but they don’t really ever talk to them. Take a moment to think about things from their perspective.”
Kryssie Tyrtania, UCLH
“I was really touched hearing how a porter said they were seen as the peasants of the hospital, yet without them patients wouldn’t be moved to have important investigations or treatment. This has changed my mindset regarding these colleagues of mine.”
Staff survey respondent, Preston
“I still think there’s more we can potentially do with it in terms of the way we work with our teams on hearing patient and hearing staff voice…how we might use the model in the same or similar modified format as part of our suite of patient, public and staff engagement.”
Ian Walker, Cambridge
“The project helped us change direction and focus. We were able to refine the objectives of the technology, and all of that fed into a successful subsequent scientific grant application. It changed the nature of not only the research, but it made it stronger and more likely to succeed, hopefully more likely to produce a product which will really answer what the patients really want.”
Researcher, Sound Voice Project
