This summer the meeting of music and sound comes together through the magic of technology. The Culture Online commissioned project - Rosetta Requiem - is set to create a collective voice for palliative care users. The project produced by Rosetta life - the charity that works with people with life-threatening illnesses to give full expression to their creative talents - gives hospice users the opportunity to commemorate and celebrate their lives.
At each of the 15 hospices around England Rosetta Life have installed an Apple based Digital Arts Centre packed full of laptops, desktops, video and still cameras. They have also gained the support of several artist such as Billy Bragg, Michael Nyman and Emily Young who have given up their time to help hospice users and their families produce music, songs and films to be performed throughout the year.
From July the finished pieces of art produced by the patients will be broadcast on the Rosetta Life website through the latest version of MSN messenger. The first of four live web broadcast is due to go out on July 6 2.00-4.00pm. Children from Gt Ormond Street Hospital will link up with children from St Nicholas Hospice in South Africa and children from sudbourne School, Brixton in a performance of their songs.