Nick Ashwood

every object both separate and connected

25

August 2022

25

Aug

2022

16

Sep 2022

Gallery 2

every object both separate and connected

Nick Ashwood

25

August 2022

25

August

2022

16

September 2022

Gallery 2

every object both separate and connected is staged as a questioning of the hierarchies embedded within euro-centric music. How they serve as a form of colonialism and forced hearing, and by how moving away from these ranked forms we can begin to create decentralised sounds and alternate ways of listening.Sounds have an innate ability to create spaces of empathy; the central tool in understanding ourselves, and more importantly, others. It allows us to commune with differing belief systems, decision-making, desires, and behaviours.The act of sound creation is inherently an act of inclusion and exclusion. It is the choosing of what reality is presented, and what reality is excluded.The show yearns to devalue high culture by presenting an alternative, but it also creates space for the audience to unpack their own perceptions of consuming and creating sounds. Here, I present one of the unending possibilities of sonic realities.

Exhibition documented by Teagan Ramsay.

every object both separate and connected is staged as a questioning of the hierarchies embedded within euro-centric music. How they serve as a form of colonialism and forced hearing, and by how moving away from these ranked forms we can begin to create decentralised sounds and alternate ways of listening.Sounds have an innate ability to create spaces of empathy; the central tool in understanding ourselves, and more importantly, others. It allows us to commune with differing belief systems, decision-making, desires, and behaviours.The act of sound creation is inherently an act of inclusion and exclusion. It is the choosing of what reality is presented, and what reality is excluded.The show yearns to devalue high culture by presenting an alternative, but it also creates space for the audience to unpack their own perceptions of consuming and creating sounds. Here, I present one of the unending possibilities of sonic realities.

Nick Ashwood

Nick’s practice explores the possibilities of the steel-string acoustic through means of just intonation, preparations, bowing and harmonic space.