A project developed as part of 'Making Conversations' a Research Festival at A.P.T. Gallery, the above video is a form of document of the performance that took place in November 2023. The film combines audio and visual elements from the performance 'Pills to Purge Melancholy' where projected footage from my family archive was layered in the space whilst I performed a live electronic set that fused elements of ambient music and tape-loops with samples of recorded interviews and remixed songs that were sourced as part of a research visit to the Vaughan Williams Library at Cecil Sharp House in North London. The library is one of the UK's best preserved archives of British folk culture and in their annals, I found traces of songs including 'Golden Slumbers' and 'May Fair' that are still known to this day and yet have their roots in medieval London. 

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The combination of these London-based folk-histories and songs, with the oral histories of my own family (native to London) and an ambient score that emphasised field-recordings made in the city and slowly evolving and deteriorating tape-loops was a way for me to explore ideas around the veracity of memory and remembrance as well as the ways in which working-class communities build their own histories through folklore.