Claire Robertson is a multi-sensory word artist with more than 25 years’ experience, based in Yorkshire, England. As a cross-art form practitioner Claire complements her specialism in live performance with creative skills including bookbinding, calligraphic work and creating audio projects and films. Many projects are collaborations with artists from a wide variety of disciplines.

A23a is a new collaborative project by Claire Robertson and Martin Christie. The aim of the project is to carve up and alter spoken word through technologies that were originally intended for creating music. The meaning of the words and phrases become part of a fragmented drifting soundscape involving the human voice and textural melody. Claire’s background in performance art makes this more than a listening experience and provides a powerful interpretation for the emerging meanings.