SERVING SOUND is a multi-sensory sound installation that creates connection through music – a bar that serves bass rather than beer. The installation is a interactive work, playful and joyful, that can run throughout the daytime and evening. There are space for up to 4 people of all ages to interact with the bar at any one time, each experience lasting up to length of a song.
THE SERVING SOUND PILOT PROJECT is a project that blends creation, residency and engagement. It’s main aim is to create new paths for engaging with pub communities around conversations around mental health. In the UK suicide is the biggest killer in men between the ages of 18-49. These men are of more risk to themselves than that of cardiovascular disease and car accidents combined. even though mental health awareness has increased in the last 20 years, the suicide rates of men have also increased and are at a all time high in the last 20 years.
The Serving Sound bar has been created to enable a dialogue with men who are the most effected, going to a space where they frequent. This project aims to create conversations, learn more about the mentality of men in these spaces and use the knowledge collected to create a performance, sharing the findings, giving working class men a voice
There’s nothing like your local, there’s nothing like it. There’s nothing like a pint at your local. There’s nothing like hanging out in the beer garden at your local. There’s nothing like it. There’s nothing like the footie, a fag and a pint at your local. There’s nothing like curry night Wednesdays, a beer of my choice and a tikka masala for 6 quid! Friday, the 2 for 1 cocktails. There’s nothing like the sound of the fruities and the hustle at the pool tables. The regular’s discount, the stains, the smells, the lads, the ladies, the loos, dance moves, the banter, the booze, the bar knowing your order, the spilt drinks, the sticky shoes. The “I’m just going to have one”, the “just one more”. The ‘DING DING’ “LAST ORDERS?” See you next week I’m sure. There’s nothing like your local. There’s nothing like it.