Clock (Words by William Shakespeare, Read by Neil Gaiman, Music by FourPlay StringQuartet)

Released on World Shakespeare Day 2023, this is Clock, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12, read by Neil Gaiman and set to a haunting musical backdrop by Australia’s FourPlay String Quartet. Taken from their debut album Signs of Life. Read by Neil Gaiman Violin & vocals – Lara Goodridge Viola – Shenzo Gregorio Viola & vocals– Tim Hollo Cello & vocals – Peter Hollo Produced by Lara Goodridge, Josh G. Abrahams, Justin Tresidder and FourPlay Recorded by Justin Tresidder at Sony Music Studios, Sydney Additional engineering by Adrian Breakspear Mixed by Justin Tresidder at Hydrofunk HQ, Mullumbimby Video by Lara Goodridge The Neil Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet collaboration was born in 2010, when Sydney Opera House’s Graphic Festival commissioned FourPlay to write a soundtrack to Neil’s novella The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains for a live performance with him. That collaboration led to an ongoing friendship an