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Prison Songs

Prison Songs recomposes and reimagines songs recorded at the Mississippi State Penitentiary during the 1950s. Covering work, love, privation and faith, these songs are some of the most extraordinary sonic historical documents. You can explore the project in full here.

Utopia

Our Utopia project takes one of English literature’s most iconic works, and imagines what Thomas More’s Utopia might have sounded like – a new Utopia constructed from sound, using the famous woodcut map that illustrated the second edition of the book in 1518. You can explore the