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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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  • Blog Post 1

    By Maedeh Ahmadi  UGR Hub Project: Capturing Sonic Audiences – The student-led approach  There’s something quietly powerful about hearing music in a place where walls are broken, ceilings are open to the sky, and history lingers in the stone. On the evening of April 23rd, the ruins of St George’s Garrison Church in Greenwich became…

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  • Hourly Paid Lecturers Wanted

    We are seeking to update our pool of sessional Visiting Lecturing Staff to teach on our BA Music and Sound Production and MA Music and Sound Design programmes. Often, we require cover for classes on the topics of:– Audiovisual Composition for Film, Games and Media– Spatial and Immersive Audio– Contemporary Sonic Practices– Recording, Mixing and…

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • SOUND/IMAGE Spring 2024 Tour: Intersections 

    Our 2024 tour programme showcases work by members of the SOUND/IMAGE Research centre, reflecting the breadth and diversity of practice research undertaken through concerts of audiovisual and multichannel work.   We are delighted to be presenting events across the UK, with the following confirmed dates:  1st February 2024, 6pm  PACE Building, De Montfort University, Leicester  18th…

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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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  • Innovate UK Next Wave

    Have an idea for a new creative product, service or experience that could create new opportunities for your business? Explore it with the University of Greenwich Innovate UK’s new Next Wave: Breakthrough Wave 1 competition is designed to support businesses developing innovative ideas at the intersection of creativity and technology. The programme is providing up to…

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  • International Opportunity: Develop a British Council “Connections Through Culture 2026” Application to work with SOUND/IMAGE & SHIFT

    Are you an artist, creative practitioner, researcher, collective or cultural organisation based in a country eligible for the British Council’s Connections Through Culture programme? The SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre and SHIFT Labs at the University of Greenwich are seeking international partners interested in co-developing projects around sound, image, performance, immersive technologies, digital heritage and creative practice…

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  • British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027

    Expression of Interest Call The SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre at the University of Greenwich invites expressions of interest from outstanding early career researchers wishing to apply for the forthcoming British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. SOUND/IMAGE is an internationally recognised centre for creative practice research, bringing together researchers working across sound, music, moving image, immersive technologies, digital…

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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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  • Hourly Paid Lecturers Wanted

    We are seeking to update our pool of sessional Visiting Lecturing Staff to teach on our BA Music and Sound Production and MA Music and Sound Design programmes. Often, we require cover for classes on the topics of:– Audiovisual Composition for Film, Games and Media– Spatial and Immersive Audio– Contemporary Sonic Practices– Recording, Mixing and…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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/IMAGE19 – Call Open

    9-10 November 2019, University of Greenwich This colloquium explores the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts – we bring together artists and experts to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena. We are delighted to present the…

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  • 11/03: Then – Now – Beyond: 75 Years of UK Sound Arts 

    Concert Programme Denis Smalley Pentes (1974)  Trevor Wishart Red Bird (1973-77)  Jonathan Harvey Mortuos plango, vivos voco (1980)  Jonty Harrison Klang (1982)    INTERVAL Natasha Barrett Puzzle Wood (1994)  Pippa Murphy Caspian Retreat (2003)  Manuella Blackburn Switched On (2011)  Nikos Stavropoulos Karst Grotto (2019)  Denis Smalley Pentes (1974)  The French title (the same in Latin) – slopes, inclines, ascents – was suggested by the…

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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…

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  • SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Talks 1

    Day Two: Friday 7 November 10am-12pm: Talk 1  Studio 1, Bathway Theatre Natasha Barrett – The spatial subject as real and abstracted in audio-visual creations This presentation touches on two recent works: the immersive audio-visual composition “Constructions of Collapse and Desire” which uses 3D LiDAR, 3D impulse responses and ambisonics to leverage features of real-world…

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  • SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Talks

    Day Two: Friday 7 November 10am-12pm: Talk 1  Studio 1, Bathway Theatre Natasha Barrett The spatial subject as real and abstracted in audio-visual creations Andrew Knight-Hill “Reflecting Forwards” – 10 Years of SOUND/IMAGE 2-4pm: Talk 2 Studio 1, Bathway Theatre Dan Stern Listening-With as Resistance: Spatialising Polyphony after Deleuze and Glissant Jesse Austin-Stewart Approaches to…

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  • SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Workshops

    We are excited to offer a programme of practical workshops. Delegates wishing to attend and participate in workshops MUST register via the linked form (or via the registration desk):  Day Two: Friday 7 November Studio 2, Bathway Theatre 2-4pm Workshop 1Chenghao Xu – Realtime audiovisual composition framework with Unreal Engine and MaxMSP Day Three: Saturday…

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  • SOUND/IMAGE 2025 Festival – Installations & Exhibition

    VP Studio (Stockwell Street Building, Lower Ground Floor) John Wynne  – and quiet that splinters the winter  Saturday 8 November: 10am-5.30pm Sunday 9 November: 10am-4.30pm Spatial Audio Lab (King William Building, Ground Floor) Tim Yates – Ball Balancer: Proof of Concept Saturday 8 November: 10am-4pm Sunday 9 November: 11am-3pm Exhibition Stephen Lawrence Gallery and Project…

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  • Innovate UK Next Wave

    Have an idea for a new creative product, service or experience that could create new opportunities for your business? Explore it with the University of Greenwich Innovate UK’s new Next Wave: Breakthrough Wave 1 competition is designed to support businesses developing innovative ideas at the intersection of creativity and technology. The programme is providing up to…

    Read more

  • International Opportunity: Develop a British Council “Connections Through Culture 2026” Application to work with SOUND/IMAGE & SHIFT

    Are you an artist, creative practitioner, researcher, collective or cultural organisation based in a country eligible for the British Council’s Connections Through Culture programme? The SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre and SHIFT Labs at the University of Greenwich are seeking international partners interested in co-developing projects around sound, image, performance, immersive technologies, digital heritage and creative practice…

    Read more

  • British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027

    Expression of Interest Call The SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre at the University of Greenwich invites expressions of interest from outstanding early career researchers wishing to apply for the forthcoming British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. SOUND/IMAGE is an internationally recognised centre for creative practice research, bringing together researchers working across sound, music, moving image, immersive technologies, digital…

    Read more

  • 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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  • Blog Post 1

    By Maedeh Ahmadi  UGR Hub Project: Capturing Sonic Audiences – The student-led approach  There’s something quietly powerful about hearing music in a place where walls are broken, ceilings are open to the sky, and history lingers in the stone. On the evening of April 23rd, the ruins of St George’s Garrison Church in Greenwich became…

    Read more

  • 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,…

    Read more

  • Hourly Paid Lecturers Wanted

    We are seeking to update our pool of sessional Visiting Lecturing Staff to teach on our BA Music and Sound Production and MA Music and Sound Design programmes. Often, we require cover for classes on the topics of:– Audiovisual Composition for Film, Games and Media– Spatial and Immersive Audio– Contemporary Sonic Practices– Recording, Mixing and…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more