The Listening Room
A place to hear what HeldTruth produces.
Each piece comes from a single recorded conversation, built only from the words actually spoken. No invention. No filling in. No AI rewrite.
The room opens with HeldTruth's own voice — the method applied to itself — and continues with Diane, Shirley, and the iKoustic pieces as families and contexts allow.
Listen the way you'd listen to someone speaking. Not for polish. For presence.
HeldTruth, in its own words
Distilled from Rick Parsons's account of why HeldTruth exists — the cassette in 1972, the recording of Diane in March 2026, the Saturday in April when the first song existed.
Built by HeldTruth's method, applied to HeldTruth itself. Nothing invented. Nothing borrowed. Only what was actually said about why this work matters.
The full story is here.
The song
The spoken word piece
The written narrative
On Saturday the 4th of April 2026, the first song existed. Built from my mother's actual words. Set to music she would have loved. Performed in a way that let her voice come alive inside it. Not what someone wrote about her. What she had said.
Dawn cried. I cried. Neither of us was prepared for how much it held.
I use that word — held — deliberately. Not captured. Not preserved, exactly. Held, as you'd hold a person's hand. Carefully. With both hands if needed. Knowing the responsibility of doing it well.
From Held — In My Own Words. The full narrative is held privately by the founder.
Diane
Recorded on 14th March 2026, in conversation with her son Rick.
For some people, in some seasons, the work becomes a way of meeting themselves again — on their own terms, in their own words. Diane listens to her pieces every day.
The song
The spoken word piece
The written narrative
Kerry had a doll. She'd left it out one day, and I was so angry that she hadn't put it away — I grabbed it and threw it on the fire. It was made of foam. Whoosh. It really lit the fire — but because we couldn't afford to have got the chimney swept, the chimney caught alight. The fire brigade from Trowbridge all came out. And do you know what I said to them? Don't put it out — I haven't got any other fire lighters. It became folklore down at the fire station.
From Diane — In Her Own Words. The full narrative is held privately by the family.
Shirley
Recorded on 15th March 2026 — Mother's Day — in conversation with Dawn and Rick.
Shirley is full of life, still dancing, still completely herself. The pieces below capture her voice at its most present — the rhythm, the warmth, the things only she would say.
The song
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The spoken word piece
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The written narrative
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iKoustic
The same principle, applied to a business.
iKoustic is a sound and acoustic insulation company that Rick has run for almost twenty years. To test whether the HeldTruth principle worked beyond personal voice, the same approach was applied to iKoustic itself — using the founder's lived experience of building the company as the input, treated with the same care.
What emerged were three lyrics, three songs, real brand devices that now live on the iKoustic website and inside the company's daily fabric. The principle held.
The pieces below are not personal work. They are demonstrations of HeldTruth's method applied to commercial brand. Heard alongside Diane's and Shirley's pieces, they show the same approach — faithful input, considered distillation, multi-form output — working across registers.
The song
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The spoken word piece
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The written narrative
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You can hear these pieces in their original brand context at iKoustic.co.uk.
If a piece resonated
If one of these pieces moved you, or made you think of someone whose voice you'd want held this way, the next step is a focused twenty-minute conversation. Free, no obligation.