(...) Silent Sound was an ambitious new commission by Forsyth and Pollard and saw them joining forces with Jason Spaceman, the singer, guitarist and writer in Spiritualized and formerly Spaceman 3 who wrote a new instrumental piece for the project. Silent Sound was a ground-breaking collaboration, combining the performance strategies at the heart of Forsyth and Pollard's practice and Spaceman's progressive approach to making moving, expansive soundscapes.

Silent Sound is a potent hybrid of contemporary art, music and psychological experimentation and employs stylistics, languages and techniques from Victorian seance, Spiritualism and early 1970's performance. As with previous works by Forsyth and Pollard, it taps into the potential of music to communicate emotively, but in a move to resolve a more resonant and powerful impact, it attempted to employ the audience's mind, imagination and beliefs as a site for the work.

Silent Sound invited audiences to open themselves up to the potential that the artists may be able to transmit meaning to them, without the intermediary of words, by repeatedly embedding a subliminal message within an instrumental composition. The piece took place in three stages: an initial live performance to an invited audience in Liverpool and a subsequent audio/visual installation in The Blade Factory at Greenland Street. Forsyth and Pollard are also working on producing a limited edition DVD which documents the making and staging of the project.

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(...) Silent Sound was an ambitious new commission by Forsyth and Pollard and saw them joining forces with Jason Spaceman, the singer, guitarist and writer in Spiritualized and formerly Spaceman 3 who wrote a new instrumental piece for the project. Silent Sound was a ground-breaking collaboration, combining the performance strategies at the heart of Forsyth and Pollard's practice and Spaceman's progressive approach to making moving, expansive soundscapes.

Silent Sound is a potent hybrid of contemporary art, music and psychological experimentation and employs stylistics, languages and techniques from Victorian seance, Spiritualism and early 1970's performance. As with previous works by Forsyth and Pollard, it taps into the potential of music to communicate emotively, but in a move to resolve a more resonant and powerful impact, it attempted to employ the audience's mind, imagination and beliefs as a site for the work.

Silent Sound invited audiences to open themselves up to the potential that the artists may be able to transmit meaning to them, without the intermediary of words, by repeatedly embedding a subliminal message within an instrumental composition. The piece took place in three stages: an initial live performance to an invited audience in Liverpool and a subsequent audio/visual installation in The Blade Factory at Greenland Street. Forsyth and Pollard are also working on producing a limited edition DVD which documents the making and staging of the project.