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 – Screening 1
Day Three: Saturday 8 November Lecture Theatre, Stockwell Street Academic Building 4-5.30pm: Screening 1 Stephen de Filippo – Spectral Breathing Apparatus Spectral Breathing Apparatus is a fixed-media audiovisual composition for reedless oboe and electronics. The work focuses on breath, vocality, and bodily presence through a close integration of sound and image. By removing the reed,…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Concert 3
Day Two: Friday 7 November Bathway Theatre 12 – 1pm, Concert 3 – Acousmatic Hector Bravo Benard – Nowhere This an electroacoustic piece built up of sounds produced with different household objects and processed using delays, filters, and spectral techniques. The sounds are arranged in 3D space and rendered using a higher order Ambisonics setup. The…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Concert 4
Day Two: Friday 7 November Bathway Theatre 4 – 5pm, Concert 4 – Audiovisual and Live Salvatore Siriano – Upwelling Upwelling (2023) is a multimedia composition that weaves together the artist’s experiences juxtaposed with the transformative capabilities of digital technology. Since recently relocating to the Fox River Valley, 45 miles west of Chicago, I have…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Concert 6
Day Three: Saturday 8 November TV Studio, Stockwell Street Academic Building 5.30-7pm: Concert 6 – Live November Jelena Perišić – “What am I then? A dream?” At the heart of this audio-visual piece is “Solaris”, Stanisław Lem’s cult science fiction novel (1961), its subsequent film adaptations: from 1968 (Nirenburg and Ishimbayeva), 1972 (Tarkovsky) and 2002…
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SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Concert 7
Day Four: Sunday 9 November TV Studio, Stockwell Street Academic Building 4.30-6pm: Concert 7 – Live Sally Golding & Matt Spendlove – Commune.sys What happens when perception becomes the system — when signals think and bodies listen? Commune.sys harnesses the social circuitry of perception and response, where sound, light, and sensation form a distributed field…
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.