Sound / Image
Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice
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SOUND/IMAGE in Open House at Brunel Museum
As part of Open House weekend on Sat 21st and Sun 22nd September the Brunel Museum will show for the first time a series of three-dimensional scans of the Museum site, including the Tunnel Shaft, by Phil Hudson, as well as the new installation, There and Back Again, by our Artist-in-Residence, Mhairi Vari. Free tickets are available through the Brunel…
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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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Future Sounds
What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And what might they tell us about technology in a world where futurology is such a frenzied and busy field? In order to answer…
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Chaos Media
The contemporary media landscape might be described in simple terms as a digital terrain where real and virtual worlds collide. Stephen Kennedy investigates the concept of our digital space leading up to the digital turn of the 1990s to fully understand how our perceptions of orientation in space in time was altered. Chaos Media: A…
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The Accurate Perception Available When Our Eye Becomes Single
The Accurate Perception Available When Our Eye Becomes Single is an immersive multi-screen installation evoking the emotional specifics of place (Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast) while exploring the elasticity of time and history. It is an audio-visual collaboration between Richard Ducker (video) and Ian Thompson (sound) with no linear narrative; sound and image are…
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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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6-7/12: Wondering for Resonances
Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: The Queen Anne Undercroft Date: 6 and 7 December 2023 Time: 7pm (performance 1), 8.30pm (performance 2) Entry: £5, booking is required Electroacoustic Composer and Researcher, Giulia Vismara presents “Wondering for Resonances”. This site-specific performance with the IKO loudspeaker and Captivate’s 3D scanning, is the culmination of a residency in the Queen Anne Undercroft,…
