Pushing the boundaries of cinema and film practices, expanded cinemas research explores the potential of the projected moving image across diverse formats and in a wide range of presentation contexts including live audiovisual performance, sculptural film installations, projection mapping, 360º video and VR environments.
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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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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…
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Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound Image Media
An AHRC Funded Project which aims to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound-Image Media, is an AHRC Funded Leadership Fellowship project led by Dr Andrew Knight-Hill, which aims to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual. The project engages a combination of ethnographic interviews with…
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(I)MAGESOUND(S)
An expanded experience of the cinematic, locating historical and contemporary artists’ work alongside the work of Jim Hobbs and Andrew Hill. (I)MAGESOUND(S) is a project that embraces an expanded experience of the cinematic, locating historical and contemporary artists’ work alongside the work of Jim Hobbs and Andrew Hill. The concept for the programme was originally…
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For Want of (not) Measuring
Jim Hobbs & Patrick Adam JonesDates: 1 – 23 April 2022PV: Thursday 31 March 2022 6 – 9pmOpen Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6pm Venue: Kingsgate Project Space Whereas measure often focuses on quantitative results, the two artists instead choose a more metaphysical approach to exploit the corporeal use of measuring apparatus. Here, surveying…
