SOUND/IMAGE festival is an annual event at the University of Greenwich exploring sound / image practice across and between music, film, sound arts, performance and digital arts.
Since the first edition in 2015, SOUND/IMAGE festival has platformed thousands of artists, scholars, and listeners from across the globe via talks, screenings, loudspeakers orchestra concerts, performances, and installations across our world class labs facilities (SHIFT) in our Immersive Digital Theatre in Woolwich and our Stockwell Street building in Greenwich.
The multi-day event curates a rich programme of immersive sound, video, and 360 degree film, allowing diverse voices and perspectives to converge and think, discuss, and enjoy the cutting edge of audiovisual theory and practice.
News
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SOUND/IMAGE 2026 Call for Works
“Artistic Intelligence” November 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th 2026 University of Greenwich Concerts / Performances / Screenings / Talks / Workshops / Installations We seek submissions that explore the diverse areas of sound / image practice and actively encourage applications from candidates of all ethnicities, backgrounds and genders, who are traditionally underrepresented. We invite composers, filmmakers, artists, performers, architects to…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Call for Works
Reflecting Forwards 6 November – 9 November 2025 University of Greenwich Concerts / Performances / Screenings / Talks / Workshops / Installations We seek submissions that explore the diverse areas of sound / image practice and actively encourage applications from candidates of all ethnicities, backgrounds and genders, who are traditionally underrepresented. We invite composers, filmmakers, artists, performers,…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2024 Call for Works
Mediated Spaces and Immersion 8 November – 10 November 2024 University of Greenwich Concerts / Performances / Screenings / Talks / Workshops / Installations SOUND/IMAGE 2024 will collaboratively question how our chosen sound and image media fabricate, articulate and question our spaces of experience. And how these spaces we enact, provide affective and engaging experiences to…
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International Travel Bursaries
for Underrepresented Regions About With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), we are delighted to announce a special fund for bursaries to subsidise travel and accommodation for artists and scholars from historically underrepresented regions to attend and participate in this year’s SOUND/IMAGE 2024 Festival. The goal of this fund is to amplify…
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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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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Workshops
Day Two: Friday 7 November Studio 2, Bathway Theatre 2-4pm Workshop 1Chenghao Xu – Realtime audiovisual composition framework with Unreal Engine and MaxMSP This workshop introduces a real-time audiovisual composition workflow using Unreal Engine, Max/MSP, and Max for Live. Participants will learn the fundamental programming logic behind the system, including how sound is generated and…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Talks 5
Day Four: Sunday 9 November 10am-12pm: Talk 5 Lecture Theatre, Stockwell Street Academic Building Andy Popperwell – Somewheres East of Suez: Eighteenth Century Voices “Time passes. Listen. Time passes. Come closer now. Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.” Dylan Thomas’s description…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Talks 4
Day Three: Saturday 8 November 2-4pm: Talk 4 Lecture Theatre, Stockwell Street Academic Building Richard Whitby – Evicshen’s Liveness This presentation examines the currency and impact of live, embodied performance at a time when cultural production is increasingly automated and ‘inhuman’. It is built on a case study of sound artist and instrument maker Evicshen…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Talks 3
Day Three: Saturday 8 November 10am-12pm: Talk 3 Lecture Theatre, Stockwell Street Academic Building Cornelia Lund & Ana Carvalho – Lines between Sight and Sound. New Developments in AV Performance AV performances involving the real-time processing of images and sound have long been an integral part of artistic expression in areas such as the arts,…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Talks 2
Day Two: Friday 7 November 2-4pm: Talk 2 Studio 1, Bathway Theatre Dan Stern – Listening-With as Resistance: Spatialising Polyphony after Deleuze and Glissant This paper emerges from a practice of spatialising sound through polyphonic improvisations on tenor saxophone within multichannel environments. My starting point is the question of how power might be challenged through…
Past Events
Events across Sound/Image
Whether it’s The Loudspeaker Orchestra, our portable multichannel concert system touring London, or the Sound/Image festival bringing creatives internationally to discuss and present in the field of audio and visuals, we have a plethora of events throughout the year.
But that’s not all! Our students, researchers and staff host one off events and installations throughout the year! Don’t miss out, be sure to check out our events page for the latest.