Composing a musical language

Gerry Diver has created an aural landscape based on the spoken word on his Speech Project album, Gerry Quinn reports.

LONDON-BASED composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Gerry Diver’s Speech Project is the title of a unique album just released.

The Manchester native of Irish parentage has masterminded a groundbreaking record of music derived from the melodies and rhythms of the spoken word.