About This Live Project
The Church of the Nazarene on Victoria Street, Sheffield, is currently a disused, grade II listed building owned by the University. Despite the music department moving into the adjacent Jessop building and new, purpose-built SoundHouse, they are still lacking a space for performance. The vision is to adapt the empty church into a licensed performance space for music, which can become a home for music and a face for musicians to present their music to the city of Sheffield.
The music department engages in a diverse range of performing activities from classical chamber music, to opera and contemporary music theatre, including world music performance, electroacoustic music and mixed media. The proposed performance space will be central to the day to day functioning (rehearsing, performing, teaching) as well as knowledge transfer and community activities, of the music department. Ensemble in residence Ensemble 360 and world music performer in residence John Ball would perform there, along with a steady stream of internationally acclaimed visiting performers.
Musical experimentations in the Nazarene
We had the opportunity to gather music students and musicians into the currently disused church to allow us to hear a wide range of musical and vocal performances within the space. They were also happy to play in different locations around the room, which allowed us to find out what sort of acoustic environment the church currently provides as it stands. We were all impressed by the quality of sound that could be produced and we were excited about the possibilities for multiple points of focus that the church could allow.
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Great to get such good feedback from the musicians about the base acoustic of the space - really positive commentary on the level of detail and clarity with solo instruments. It backs up our feelings towards creating an acoustic intervention to disperse and absorb some of the sound, which would be essential with multiple performers.
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