Katy Rose Bennett - Dissolution

Content warning: This piece contains offensive language and themes of grief and mental health.
About ‘Dissolution’
‘Dissolution’ is a musical reflection on grief and loss. It is a piece in 5 parts, with each part representing a stage of the grieving process, as articulated by Kubler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In the piece, Katy reflects on the grief experienced due to having a disabling, long-term health condition (Functional Neurological Disorder) and the resulting sense of loss of identity and potential. The piece is constructed entirely from samples of Katy’s voice, looped, layered and sonically manipulated using Ableton Live and Valhalla software. Katy employs novel ways of generating melody - converting lyric texts into midi keyboard patterns mapped to vocal samples. Throughout the piece, she moves between the realms of the natural and manipulated voice. Whilst the piece explores some of the darkest elements of grief, Katy hopes the listener will have a sense of the journey of ‘Dissolution’, arriving at a place of acceptance and understanding.
Created and produced by Katy Rose Bennett
Mixed by Jim Cornick
Ableton advice and support from David McFarlane
Thanks to Drake Music Collective
Audio Description - Michael Achtman
Subtitles - Stagetext
About Katy Rose Bennett
“Fascinating stuff… a sort of folk-meets-Laurie Anderson”
Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
Katy Rose Bennett has been creating her earthy, intimate folk music for over 20 years, telling stories of love, despair, connection and community. She empowers audiences to be emotionally open by sharing the strength in vulnerability, through the vessel of song. She has released 7 albums to critical acclaim. In recent years, Katy has been expanding her musical palette, writing music for dance and theatre, and incorporating more experimental techniques into her practice. During her time as Artist in Residence at Drake Music, Katy has been developing her use of music technology, vocal sampling and sonic manipulation.

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Super couleurs des symphonys mélodie exelentes!!!

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It's fantastic music of experience and healing. But also adventurous and resourceful. I will be looking out for her. Does anyone else not understand why there is a voice describing all kinds of visual elements that having nothing whatsoever to do with the music, for a whole 2 minutes before the music? This is losing the attention of potential fans of Katy Rose Bennett. The voice is obviously a man who can write wonderfully and speak clearly and instructionally, but visual descriptions simply don't belong right before music. It's worse than ads. It puts me in a state of frustration, being told what I'm about to hear but also see, from his perspective which influences my own, when I could easily hear and see it for myself. Even though his introduction is okay. But that's all it should be. Thank you.