wrk01 // spaceTIAL hands (space between our years) is a co-authored audio documentary and participatory listening experience by Manchester-based sound artist nexus asanté.
Blending intimate conversation, autobiographical reflection and the resonant voice of the steel pan, the work explores memory, belonging and the ways we come to know ourselves through other people. Constructed in conversation, the piece moves between dialogue, personal recollection and moments of tension.
Reflecting on his time in Manchester, asanté traces a period of profound personal change, arriving in a new city as familiar structures gave way beneath him. Moving between memory and the present, the work considers what it means to begin again, and how our understanding of celebration, belonging and community shifts over time.
What the documentary resists is carried into a live participatory workshop led by Sean Clarke, where audiences move from listeners to collaborators as the session becomes a live recording, extending the work through shared musical experience.
To live is to be shaped by others. wrk01 // spaceTIAL hands (space between our years) examines what becomes of the self when community is refused and experience is erased, asking whether listening and shared presence might offer a way back to one another.
Trigger Warning: This work contains discussions of mental health, recovery, emotional abuse and experiences of isolation. Please feel free to step out at any time if you need to.
(Audio Producer + Sound Artst) nexus asanté is a immersive sound artist, audio documentary producer and broadcast journalist whose work explores the way sound shapes orientation, memory and experience within systems, public space and social pressure. After studying for an MA in Audio Storytelling and Anthropology, he now works across installation and broadcast formats, treating atmosphere as structure and interruption as method, focusing on fragmented, partial and mediated ways meaning emerges. His practice attends to erased experience and marginalised voices, asking how environments shape attention and what forms of care might be possible under pressure.
(Workshop facilitator) Sean Clarke is a professional steel pan musician and music educator based in West London, with more than 30 years of performance experience. A long-standing member of the internationally renowned Ebony Steel Band, he has performed on television and at major festivals, concert halls and events across the UK and internationally, touring throughout France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, India, Nigeria and Trinidad, alongside an 11-month performance residency aboard the P&O Oceana throughout the Caribbean. For the past 15 years, Sean has also worked as a secondary school music teacher, delivering steel pan workshops for participants of all ages and abilities.
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