Victoria Hume: Women Make Music
Victoria Hume is a songwriter, and an arts manager in the NHS.
She has been writing and performing for 15 years. Her last album was launched at Toronto’s North by Northeast Festival and she has performed in South Africa, the US, Australia, France and Germany. Her most recent album, Landing, was released in January 2012 and she is releasing a new single this October. Apart from her solo work, she has collaborated with both musicians and visual artists on a variety of projects.
She has also worked for a decade in a specialist cardiothoracic centre, commissioning diverse, charitably-funded arts projects, and currently chairs the London Arts in Health Forum.
She will be using the Women Make Music funding to create a series of songs exploring delirium in intensive care units, working with patients and clinicians to try to convey some of the shattering strangeness of the experience, and to look at whether the brain turns to lyrical metaphor to comprehend trauma.