Sound / Image
Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice
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7-10/11: SOUND/IMAGE 2024 Festival
Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venues: Thursday and Friday – Bathway Theatre, SE18 6QX Saturday and Sunday – Stockwell Street Academic Building, SE10 9BD Dates: Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 November 2024 Time: 7pm Entry: Festival (4-day) pass: £60, £35 students / emerging artist Day pass (Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday): £35, £25 students / emerging artist …
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Inner Sound: Altered States of Consciousness in Electronic Music and Audio-Visual Media
Over the last century, developments in electronic music and art have enabled new possibilities for creating audio and audio-visual artworks. With this new potential has come the possibility for representing subjective internal conscious states, such as the experience of hallucinations, using digital technology. Combined with immersive technologies such as virtual reality goggles and high-quality loudspeakers,…
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The Paths of Zatoichi: The Global Influence of the Blind Swordsman
The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and influence of the Japanese film and television franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman. The franchise is comprised of 29 films and 100 TV episodes (starring the famous Shintaro Katsu, who starred in 26 of the 29 feature films). They all follow the adventures of a blind masseur in…
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Explosions in the Mind: Composing Psychedelic Sounds and Visualisations
This book explores how to compose sounds and visualisations that represent psychedelic hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia. Through a detailed discussion regarding compositional methodologies and technical approaches, the book aims to educate students, practitioners, and researchers working in related areas. It weaves together sound, visual design, and code across a range of media, providing conceptual…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2023 Festival
9 November – 12 November 2023 University of Greenwich Concerts / Talks / Performances / Screenings / Installations This audiovisual festival brings together international artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. To celebrate the publication of the new book on sonic creativity “Art of…
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Dreams of Safety: An Experimental Video Series
Research Lead: Richard Whitby Are there more sustainable, adaptable way to make international and collaborative experimental video projects that engage multiple participants in meaningful exchanges? I have now made four pilot episodes of an online video series called ‘Dreams of Safety’. My aim is to work out a way to make experimental videos with other…
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Film Industry Events
Nina Hartstone – Dialogue and Vocal Performances for Film SOUND/IMAGE 22 Festival – Keynote Saturday 19 November 2022, 1.30-2.30pm In this talk, we will explore the techniques used for recording and editing dialogue and vocal performances for film. The human voice is a versatile and emotive instrument and is one of the most familiar sounds…
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Creative Practice / Compositions
Sound & audiovisual compositions will apply and critique spatial concepts in context, underpinning theoretical research, while affording unique dissemination opportunities. ROARY Andrew Knight-Hill Soundtrack to an experimental film directed by Dave Leister. This film was created from a looped clip of the 1957 MGM lion. The soundtrack of the film is drawn and extended from…
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Sound Designer / Composer Interviews
Bringing together world-leading industry professionals in sound design and composition with academics and sound artists, to critique and reflect upon each others work and the role of spatiality within it. Facilitating interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and the potential to further seed academic impact into the creative industries. Peter Albrechtsen Sound Designer, Re-recording Mixer and Music Supervisor…
