Ruby Colley
About Ruby Colley
Sounding the overlooked | Spaces | People | Nature.
Ruby is a Violinist, Composer and Sound Artist. Her work spans genres from classical, to folk, sound art and even across to film. Her interests have developed into building a relationship between the audible world and her creative practice. Focusing on the overlooked elements of nature and humanity, this feeds into her performance, composition and audio-visual work.
Ruby’s latest work Hello Halo with EXAUDI Ensemble, has been developed alongside Ruby’s brother, Paul Colley, who is neurodivergent and is non-speaking. The composition transcribes his unique communication methods, using live voice and recordings of Paul, to make a vocal map of his life and relationships.
Her album Overheard (2022), draws upon field recordings and weaves in instrumentation and electronics. The album seeks to unravel the connections between human presence and nature in response to the climate crisis.
Her EP Underheard (2023), continues the Human experience of the climate catastrophe, along with memory, loss and our place within nature itself. Ruby’s film and directorial debut, ‘The Sea Wrote It’ was shown at the Manchester Lift Off Film Festival as well as the Altpitch festival and won their artist commission award. Her audio-visual work, Edgeland, was shown at the Alt PItch festival in 2021 and installed at the 1st Sono Electro festival, Electro Studios in 2023.
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