'The Sound of Colour: Arrivals' projection mapping project to launch at St Helier Town Church
Pictured: The Sound of Colour: Arrivals. Coin (2024)
Tracing the emergence of language in Jersey through projection and immersive soundscape.
ArtHouse Jersey is delighted to announce The Sound of Colour: Arrivals, a new projection mapping project to be presented at St Helier Town Church from Friday 8 to Saturday 23 November. Featuring visuals by international artist Akhila Krishnan and a soundscape by the Jersey electroacoustic composer Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos the piece is co-authored and produced by Natasha Dettman for ArtHouse Jersey. It follows the success of the first edition of The Sound of Colour: Origins (2021) which also completely transformed the iconic venue of St Helier Town Church with projection and soundscapes. Opening times are Monday to Friday 10:30am to 6pm, Saturday 10:30am to 7pm and Sunday 1pm to 6pm. This is a free entry event where the piece will continue to play throughout the day. No pre booking is required.
What languages will you hear and why?
Arrivals explores the emergence of language in Jersey; from the distant whisperings of the Magdalenian people of the late Stone Age, the Iron Age Celts of Gaul, the Romans, the Franks, the Normans, to the appearance of our native language Jèrriais. Bringing light into the darkening month of November, Arrivals considers how our language and culture has been woven into existence and shaped over thousands of years of settlement of this Island by different peoples and cultures. We finally land in present day Jersey, where the sounds of modern English, French, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Swahili, Filipino and many more languages can be heard.
The immersive soundscape created by Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos features the voices of many Islanders speaking some of the languages which would at various times have been spoken widely and some which may have made a brief appearance in Jersey.
Pictured: The Sound of Colour: Arrivals. Tapestry (2024)
CREDITS. Visuals: Creative Direction & Design, Akhila Krishnan, Technical Leas, Maximilien Spielbichler. Animation, Lawrence Watson & Georgia Clegg. Additional Programming & Engineering. Richard Wells Sound: Sound Design and Music, Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos. Voice recordings, JP Le Blond. ArtHouse Jersey would like to thank Annigna Kennedy, Geraint Jennings, Tom Oxenham, Richard Pedley, Marianne Sargent, Ben Spink, the team at Cheval Roc Residential and Nursing Home including Joyleen, Ella, Anna, Filipe, Eduardo, Fouda and Ruth and the Jèrriais conversation group at Jersey Pearl.
Special events on Saturday 16 November - Tickets £5 via Eventbrite
On Saturday 16 November there will be a Double Bill Presentation of both The Sound of Colour: Origins (2021) + The Sound of Colour: Arrivals (2024). The first presentation takes place at 5:30pm the second at 7:30pm.
These exclusive weekend evening viewings also give visitors the opportunity to enjoy Origins which explores the human journey on a macro/micro level from the intricate patterns found in nature, to the vast expanse of the cosmos and our sense of place within this moment in time, as well as the current Arrivals. Suitable for all, although we ask that children are always accompanied by a parent or responsible adult. Booking via ArtHouse Jersey’s Eventbrite page for £5.
Associate Producer for ArtHouse Jersey, Natasha Dettman said, “We're delighted to be able to return with The Sound of Colour: Arrivals and offer yet another show-stopping event for our community in the much loved St Helier Town Church. Some of the most compelling artistic experiences occur through collaborations across art forms and we’re thrilled to be able to introduce the concept of local language exploration to audiences in this contemporary way. As with everything we do, The Sound of Colour: Arrivals has been designed to be inclusive and it’s our hope that as many people as possible will make the most of this wonderful opportunity to attend an event of such stunning creativity in the heart of St Helier for free.”
About the artists
Akhila Krishnan is a multi disciplinary designer and director working across the fields of communication design - in live experience & immersive technologies, graphic narrative, moving image for screen and fine art. She graduated from the Royal College of Art and the National Institute of Design. She was also an exchange student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Her work has recently been nominated at the Drama Desk Awards, International Opera Awards, the Novellos, What's on Stage Awards and Broadway World UK. Over the course of her career she has also received several other honours including the Inlaks Shivadasani Scholarship, Man Group Drawing Prize and the IDPA Silver Prize.
Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos is a Jersey born electroacoustic composer, lecturer, and performer based in Manchester, UK. Her acousmatic and interactive works, which primarily explore the connection between people and their environment, have been performed at concerts, festivals and conferences across the world. Sarah is an electroacoustic composer and performer based in Manchester, UK. Having completed her PhD in 2024, she now works as a Lecturer in Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Manchester. Her works have been performed at the ICMC, EASTN-DC, Radio CASo, Reform Radio, BEAST FEaST, MANTIS, ArtHouse Jersey, Diffrazioni Festival, Mariannenplatz, Espacios Sonoros, TAma Festival, Ecos Urbanos, NMNW, REF Festival, BFE/RMA, MeCCSA-PGN, NWCDTP ResConf, and SHETogether. Her works have also been released by Empirica Records (FIXED.wav 2021) and ABLAZE Records (Electronic Masters vol. 8). Sarah is also currently a member of KANTOS, a chamber choir comprising of the top choral singers across the North West of England.
