Metal sound notes created from birdsong recordings, irrigation tubing, ribbon, soundtrack (Dawn Chorus)

Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells, 2022

Extract from Making you think and reflect by Andrea Cowan | Bath Chronicle August 2022

‘… The joy of this exhibition is that everyone will find something that they are really drawn to. For me, Everyone Was a Bird by Caro Williams struck a cord. Suspended in the porch to the Friends Building, this remarkable installation “is inspired by birds whose songs we no longer hear plus birds whose songs are in danger of being lost such as the Skylark, Nightingale and sound thrush,“ says Caro. The title is from a line in Siegfried Sassoon‘s First World War poem, Everyone Sang, which recalls voices and songs we no longer hear. Caro brings this together with the images of prayer beads, the visionary creation of sound waveforms from a moment in the dawn chorus and a QR code providing a personal sound experience of Birdsong recordings. It is mesmerising.’

The title is from a line in Siegfried Sassoon’s WW1 poem ‘Everyone Sang’.

Additional installation images.