Every place has its own sound. A resonance made up of invisible sound shadows of what exists and what has been before. Even when it seems empty.
We carry resonance inside of us too. And when we’re still, we can hear them. The shadows of people and presents and stupid jokes. Long after we think they’re forgotten.
Trace brings together stories that emerged from listening to and recording an empty football ground. Stories of loss, the fa cup and of what it means to remember.
The piece includes field and archive recordings and the voice of goalkeeping hero Steve Ogrizovic.
“It’s a glorious piece of work – funny, clever and absolutely heart-felt…I can’t stop feeling it, and I want that piece of work to live forever.”
Bianca, audience member
Lisa Heledd Jones is a digital storyteller – recording voices and sounds and presenting them in the most appropriate way for that person or story – sometimes as film, performance or installation.
It is called the evolution of manhood, it starts off in a Shandy Bass can and then goes into a cider bottle. It moves on to an alco pop bottle, to carling and then strongbow. At the end it will be a fine malt or something.