Verity Standen – There You Go, Lovely
I have been working in residence at The Galleries shopping centre: getting to know the people who work there and pass through; recording interviews with shopworkers, cleaners, security guards and visitors; digging into the history of the shops and how they have changed over time. I have begun weaving these conversations into music – layering people’s words and historical information about the shop units (along with a handful of TripAdvisor reviews) into a set of vocal pieces.
Verity Standen
Verity Standen is an artist, composer and choir leader. Her work takes a range of forms – concerts, theatre pieces, films, installations, community events – but they always start with the human voice. She likes to play with vocal music in different ways that ask us to listen differently. A lot of Standen’s work explores the relationship between music and intimacy, such as HUG (2015), Symphony (2016), Undersong (2018) and polyphony (2022).