Concerts

2024-2025

  • 21/09: Crystal Clear

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Crystal Palace Concert Platform, Crystal Palace, SE19 2BA Date: 21 September 2024 Time: 3 and 5pm Entry: Free, booking is required Crystal Clear is an experimental spatial sound performance developed in response to the earliest known recording of classical music captured at the Crystal Palace, during the 1888 Handel Festival.    The graininess, clicks…

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  • 5/10: Satu – the year of the rabbit

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series / Expanded Cinema Event Venue: Bathway Theatre Date: Saturday 5 October 2024 Time: 7.30pm Entry: £5, booking is required In collaboration with IPS (Institute of Professional Sound), join us for a film screening of “Satu – the year of the rabbit” in our immersive Bathway Theatre (36.2 loudspeaker array).  “Satu – the year of…

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  • 16/10: Mariam Gviniashvili

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: St Alfege Church, Greenwich Date: 16 October 2024 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Join us for an eclectic evening of spatial sound and audiovisual music by sound artist and composer Mariam Gviniashvili. Her compositions and live audio-visual productions are recognised for their capacity to delve deep into the physical and emotional…

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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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  • 26/02: Panayiotis Kokoras

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: St Alfege Church, Greenwich Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Exploring timbre as a key element of form, join us for an eclectic evening as Panayiotis Kokoras presents a programme of fixed, mixed media and audiovisual works. The concert will include multichannel compositions AI Phantasy (2020), Qualia…

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  • 26/03: Ernest Berk: A Musical Outsider 

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Bathway Theatre Date: Wednesday 26 March 2025 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required In collabration with CeReNeM (University of Huddersfield)  Ernest Berk: A Musical Outsider is a multichannel concert showcasing the work of pioneering electronic music composer Ernest Berk. As part of the AHRC-funded project “Ernest Berk: An Expressionist Outsider” the project…

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  • 23/04: Spatial Traces

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: St George’s Garrison Church Date: Wednesday 23 April 2025 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required In collaboration with Captivate Spatial Modelling Research Group   “[R]uins evoke an aesthetics of disorder, surprise and sensuality, offering ghostly glimpses into the past and a tactile encounter with space and materiality.” (Tim Edensor – Industrial Ruins: Space,…

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  • 25/06: Voyages 

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Cutty Sark, King William Walk, London SE10 9HT  Date: Wednesday 25 June 2025 Time: 7pm In Partnership with Cutty Sark, Royal Museums Greenwich.  A programme of new multichannel immersive compositions inspired by maritime heritage and the iconic Cutty Sark, once one of the fastest sailing ships in the world.   Drawing on rich…

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  • 23/07: MindScape

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Bathway Theatre Date: Wednesday 23 July 2025 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required In collabration with IKLECTIK  MindScape: Immersive Listening and Sonic Reflection is a research-driven project that investigates the impact of immersive 3D sound environments on human perception and awareness. By guiding participants through focused listening experiences, the project seeks to…

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2023-2024

  • 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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  • 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,…

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  • 21/2: ISSTA: Na tonnta

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: St Alfege Church, Greenwich Date: 21 February 2024 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required ISSTA (The Irish Sound Science Technology Association) is delighted to present Na Tonnta. Translating as “the waves”, this Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert presents an eclectic evening of Irish Electronic and Electroacoustic Music . Join us for a concert of…

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  • 20/3: Contemplations

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Bathway Theatre, Woolwich Date: 20 March 2024 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Contemplations is the launch of Acousmatic Composer and Sound Artists, Emma Margetson’s new album with Empreintes Digitales ‘Contemplations’. Join us for an evening of music composed over the past decade charting a prolonged engagement with the medium of sound.…

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  • 29/05: WEȽ∝KER

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Greenwich Market, Greenwich Date: 29 May 2024 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required First performance: Somatic guitar performance, part of the series «How to Decentralize Your Brain in 527 Simple Steps». Structured improvisation for electric guitar, hands, feet, head and everything in between. Second performance: Rubberised recordings meet aerated physical modellings, AI…

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  • 27/07: Echoes in the Park

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Bandstand, Greenwich Park Date: 27 July 2024 Time: 6pm Entry: Free, booking is required Join us at the Greenwich Park Bandstand for an unforgettable evening exploring the sonic impressions of the Greenwich Park through live performance and sound maps. This open-air concert will present new works specially commissioned for the launch of our…

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2022-2023

  • INTERROGATING THE NOISE

    Dirty Electronics & Dushume Dates: 28th Feb – 24th March 2023 Venue: Stephen Lawrence Gallery Part of the: A cacophony of rhythmic stutters polarising with brutal deep bass – interrogating the noise! Object Noise Clusters made from everyday objects – pots and pans, oil can, oven shelf, coffee pot, clock gongs – are hung from the ceiling…

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  • 15/06: IKO Loudspeaker Concert @ Everyday is Spatial

    SOUND/IMAGE 23-24 Tour: Intersections Date: 15 June 2023 Time: 7.15pm Venue: Atrium, University of Gloucesterershire Programme Cadavre Exquis IKO                            Andrew Knight-Hill, Natasha Barrett, Nadine Schütz   Shifted Trajectories                                                                             Emma Margetson Site-d                                                                                                              Angela McArthur …

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  • 24/05: SOUND/IMAGE Intersections

    Date: 24 May 2023 Time: 7pm Venue: Leeds School of Arts On Wednesday 24th May 2023 Leeds School of Arts presents an exciting performance from SOUND/IMAGE. The programme includes a selection of works by artists Andrew Knight-Hill, Brona Martin, Dushume, Emma Margetson, Jim Hobbs and Richard Whitby, including: • Avartan by Dushume – A low…

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  • 15/07: Disruptive Frequencies

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with nonclassical Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG Date: 15 July 2023 Time: 7.30pm Entry: £7.50-£15.00 Nonclassical presents the launch party for “Disruptive Frequencies” release. An evening of experimental sounds by Black and South Asian artists NikNak, Dhangsha, Nikki Sheth, Poulomi Desai, Gary Stewart and Dushume. This is a collective celebration…

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  • 21/06: Sonic Habitats

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with Touch Venue: Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Crossrail Place, London E14 5AB Date: 21 June 2023 Time: 7pm Entry: Free, booking is required An evening with Touch, listening to the IKO loudspeaker amongst exotics plants in the Roof Garden’s amphitheatre. Join sound artist Bethan Kellough as we follow motions and contours of winds, waves and other…

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  • 17/05: Resonant Chamber

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with Aproxima Arts Venue: Brunel Museum Date: 17 May 2023 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Deep underground where the water crosses land, we enter a subterranean space of brick, concrete and iron. This industrial artefact, he world’s first caisson, offers an echo of labours, of sweat and of ambition stands as a silent…

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  • 17/03: Climate Words

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with Trinity Laban Conservatoire Venue: Blackheath Halls Date: 17 March 2023 Time: 6pm Entry: Free, booking is required A concert of spoken word-derived works based on interviews and aural histories connected to climate issues, fusing Trinity Laban’s Contemporary Music Group and the University of Greenwich Loudspeaker Orchestra. Join us to hear the world premiere of new works…

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  • 25/02: Interrogating the Noise: Gallery Sound

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich Date: 25 February 2023 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required A cacophony of rhythmic stutters polarising with brutal deep bass – a performance / installation and interrogation of the artists and gallery space will take place. The gallery is White and the sound is Black corroding noise…

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  • 25/01: CeReNeM

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with University of Huddersfield  Venue: St Alfege Church, Greenwich Church St, London, SE10 9BJ Date: 25 January 2023 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Join us for an evening of music with the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University Huddersfield. Featuring works by Aaron Cassidy, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Eddie…

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  • 14/12: Volstarfel

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: The Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Rd, London, SE14 6TY Date: 14 December 2022 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required [sobbing and moaning] An evening of experimental live sets and new audio-visual collaborations, including Territorial Gobbing, 0jon & Jim Hobbs, Richard Whitby and more.

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  • 18-20/11: SOUND/IMAGE 22 Festival

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series SOUND/IMAGE Festival The event has already taken place. Venue: Stockwell Street, University of Greenwich Date: 18-20 November  2022 Entry:  Greenwich SOUND/IMAGE festival presents a series of exhibitions, workshops, talks and activities showcasing leading audio-visual art that investigates relationships between sound and image. The University has hosted a SOUND/IMAGE conference since 2015, inviting international world-leading…

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  • 26/10: Reconfiguring the Landscape

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with NMH Oslo and IRCAM Paris Venue: Greenwich Market, London, SE10 9HZ Date: 26 October 2022 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required “Reconfiguring the Landscape” is an international collaborative partnership which investigates how 3-D electroacoustic composition and sound-art can evoke and provoke a new awareness of our outdoor environment via four complementary strands…

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  • 22/09: Dynamical Systems and Natural Environments

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with nonclassical Venue: St John’s Waterloo, 73 Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8TY Date: 22 September 2022 Time:  7.30pm Entry:  £12 advance, £8 concessions, £15 on the door A pendulum swings, water flows, the air particles around us move. You may not know it, but these are all examples of dynamical systems – mathematical processes of change…

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2021-2022

  • 15/06: Diverse Frequencies

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Ln, London SE1 7LG Date: 15 June 2022 Time: 7.30pm Entry: £5, booking is required Join us for an evening of diverse experimental sounds by Black and South Asian artists, NikNak, Dhangsha, Nikki Sheth, Poulomi Desai, Gary Stewart and Dushume. A collective celebration of music produced and…

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  • 11/05: Constructs

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: St Alfege Church, Greenwich, SE10 9BJ Date: 11 May 2022 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Celebrating the role of women in contemporary electronic music, this concert of works for IKO loudspeaker features new compositions from five female composers: Brona Martin, Emma Margetson, Angela McArthur, Nikki Sheth and Giulia Vismara. Come and hear works reconstructing, recontextualizing and re-presenting…

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  • 13/04: Composing Space

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with The Royal Observatory Venue: Peter Harrison Planetarium, Royal Observatory Greenwich, SE10 8XJ Date: 13 April 2022 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Transporting the audience to other worlds, this concert presents a constellation of compositions and audiovisual works that unite the forces of the Royal Observatory and the SOUND/IMAGE Research Group from…

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  • 23/03: Polish Radio Experimental Studio

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with Polish Radio Experimental Studio Venue: St Alfege Church, Greenwich, SE10 9BJ Date: 23 March 2022 Times: 6.30pm Pre-concert Talk / 7pm Concert Entry: £5, booking is required Join us for an evening of experimental music crafted by the world’s first radio studio devoted to the creation of electroacoustic music, the Polish Radio Experimental…

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