Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective bring Correspondences, their decade-long collaboration of sound, poetry and film, to the Royal Festival Hall.
Patti Smith, whose 1975 album Horses helped shape New York punk, joins Soundwalk Collective for Correspondences at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Thursday 4 February 2027.
Smith began as a poet in New York before she turned to rock, and her work has joined the two ever since. She won the National Book Award in 2010 for Just Kids, her memoir of her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
She received the Polar Music Prize in 2011. Her 1978 single “Because the Night”, written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number five in Britain.
Correspondences grew from a decade of work between Smith and the collective. Field recordings from melting glaciers, deserts, forests and cities surround the audience while Smith reads and sings, with film running alongside.
Soundwalk Collective is the sound-art platform of founder Stephan Crasneanscki and producer Simone Merli. Crasneanscki gathered the recordings. The collective has also worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Nan Goldin and Charlotte Gainsbourg.