Tai Shani, an artist who uses many different disciplines, collaborated with Maxwell Sterling, a musician, composer and sound artist in our Southbank Centre Studio. Tai Shani, joint-winner of the 2019 Turner Prize, describes herself as being ‘always hyper critical of [her] own work’ and ‘looking at how to narrow the gap of how I imagine works to be and how they come out’. Nevertheless, Shani considers her 2021 film The Neon Hieroglyph – a dreamlike CGI journey into the mystic composed of nine short episodes – the work she is proudest of. The work included a soundtrack by Manchester-born composer-musician Maxwell Sterling, and the two will collaborate once again for Shani’s Southbank Centre Studio. Together they explored and developed the score for Shani’s film work, My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, And All The Bodily Remains That Ever Were, And Ever Will Be. Their intention was to adapt part of the score for a Gamelan orchestra, and work with various collaborators in the process. Sterling explained that their intention was to ‘develop a language and means to interface with a gamelan orchestra,’ adding, ‘I hope the outcome [will be] a much more nuanced musical score that is not confined to western tuning, scales or intonation’.