Ear Cinema - Always Optional

Always Optional is the latest project by Ear Cinema and involves the sonification of six poems selected from the ‘Happiness’ series by London-based poet Jack Underwood. The project is an intermedium between literature and sound-art, and is presented as a ‘text-sound-art’ or ‘text-sound-composition’ piece as defined by the Fylkingen society for experimental music and arts, founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1933. The poems are expressed via a circular array of speakers, and exhibit a variety of sonic interpretations and approaches in response to Underwood’s texts.