Reload
During his Creative Health Residency, Reload will be exploring non-verbal storytelling through rap music and movement fused with orchestral composition, electronic music, and acoustic folk.
Father/Hood is a project which will explore real-life themes of poverty, adultification and SEN through different story-telling mediums. Reload will work with live musicians and electronic producers to consider how his music can tell a story to a non-verbal person, when he often so heavily relies on the written and spoken word.
Our Creative Health Residencies are cross-sector residencies grounded in research, combining theory and practice. They allow artists, researchers and other practitioners to work collaboratively and delve more deeply into questions about music’s place, purpose and function in the world.
About Reload
Hailing from Wolverhampton, Reload is an award-winning musician, lyricist and writer. Having spent the best part of his professional career as a social commentator and storyteller, Reload has managed to amalgamate his passion for rap music with a unique and rich vein of literature.
Having performed at some of the biggest festivals across Europe, and being championed by key tastemakers from Radio 1, Capital Xtra and Apple Radio, Reload’s vivid wordplay and ear-catching hooks have made him one of the West Midlands’ best-known secrets.
Although music makes up the majority of Reload’s creative expression, he is also a well-versed poet, playwright, novelist and educator. His work has been showcased at some of the biggest institutions and galleries in the country.
About Creative Health Residencies
Creative Health Residencies are cross-sector residencies grounded in research, combining theory and practice. They allow artists, researchers and other practitioners to work collaboratively and delve more deeply into questions about music’s place, purpose and function in the world.
We believe in an ethos of co-production, enabling collaboration with experts and those with lived experience from the very early stages of a project. We would like to see experimentation with different ways of co-creating work with participants.
This event is supported by PRS Foundation's The Open Fund.
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