Sound / Image
Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice
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AR Geolocative Sound Commissions
2 x Augmented Reality Geolocative Sound Commissions To celebrate the launch of our new SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre sound app (more information to be launched soon!), we invite sound artists and composers to submit proposals to develop an immersive Augmented Reality audio experience in response to the Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London. These commissions will be…
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Contemplations Album Launch
Contemplations is the launch of Acousmatic Composer and Sound Artist, Emma Margetson’s new album with Empreintes Digitales ‘Contemplations’. The performance will be held at the University’s new Digital Immersive Theatre space, at Bathway, which consists of a brand-new 36.2 genelec surround sound system. Attendees will listen to a range of 3D spatial compositions composed for…
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SOUND/IMAGE Spring 2024 Tour: Intersections
Our 2024 tour programme showcases work by members of the SOUND/IMAGE Research centre, reflecting the breadth and diversity of practice research undertaken through concerts of audiovisual and multichannel work. We are delighted to be presenting events across the UK, with the following confirmed dates: 1st February 2024, 6pm PACE Building, De Montfort University, Leicester 18th…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2023 Call for Works
“Creativity Shared” A festival curated by the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre. 9-12 November 2023 University of Greenwich, London, UK This festival brings together artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. To celebrate the publication of a new book on sonic creativity “Art of Sound:…
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£1 million funding to develop and upgrade creative facilities
The funding will go to the university’s creative laboratories, SHIFT, enabling capture, prototyping, post-production and presentation of immersive media outputs SHIFT (Shared Hub for Immersive Future Technologies) will deliver state-of-the-art collaborative co-production facilities for creative and cultural research. Bringing together practitioners and approaches from drama, film, architecture, music and sound, SHIFT will strengthen existing research and…
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Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 2022: Constructs
Last night, the Sound/Image Research Group presented their latest concert Constructs at the iconic musical church of St Alfege, Greenwich. Celebrating the role of women in contemporary electronic music, this concert of works for IKO loudspeaker featured new compositions from five female composers: Brona Martin, Emma Margetson, Angela McArthur and Nikki Sheth and Giulia Vismara. #loudpseakerorchestra22
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Sound and Ecology Micro Festival at Stave Hill, Rotherhithe over the Dawn Chorus Day Weekend
30 April to 1 May 2022 As part of the Sound Camp event, Ian Thompson will be live-streaming the soundscape from a small patch of woodland in suburban Reading as part of Sound Camp, which takes place this weekend in Stave Hill Ecological Park, Rotherhithe, to mark International Dawn Chorus Day. Listen in here: https://tinyurl.com/EarleyChorus More information about…
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The Sampler Audiozine
SOUND/IMAGE Composers Share their Practices with IKO for International Women’s Day Tune in to the fourth episode of The Sampler Audiozine with Emma Margetson, Angela McArthur, Brona Martin and Nikki Sheth. These four composers unpack what it’s like to work and create new music with and for IKO, a unique 3D inside-out speaker, as part of a research group at University of…
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For Want of (not) Measuring by Jim Hobbs & Patrick Adam Jones
The Sound-Image Research Group is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition For Want of (not) Measuring by Jim Hobbs and Patrick Adam Jones at Kingsgate Projects in London. Over the past 8 months,Hobbs and Jones have developed individual and collaborative bodies of work which explore the problematic and poetic use of systems and measurement within their work. Where measurement often focuses…
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Introducing New Composers in Residence 2021/22
The SOUND/IMAGE group is delighted to announce its newest ‘Composers in Residence’ working with the IKO Loudspeaker based at the University of Greenwich, to share their works and expertise in a series of concerts across Greenwich. The IKO is a unique system in spatial sound. Instead of the usual ‘outside-in’ approach to multi-channel sound, the…