Stone has been the canvas of storytelling since humans developed visual language, but could we change perspective and instead listen to the stone? What shared stories can we listen to through the sounds of stones?

Stone Drawings is an audiovisual piece by the duo Shapes of Sounds.

With the instrumentation of Swedish and Scottish sandstone, and live-painting with sand and water, Swedish composer and sound artist Alexandra Nilsson together with Scottish visual artist Jenny Soep, explore the delicacy and rawness of sand and sandstone.

Premiered at the Festival Nordic Music Days in Glasgow October 2024, with the theme “Word of Mouth”.
Nordic Music Days is a Nordic Composers Council project. Shapes of Sounds performance was supported by FST, Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare.

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