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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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  • SOUND/IMAGE 2024 Festival – 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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  • 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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  • £1 million funding to develop and upgrade creative facilities

    The funding will go to the university’s creative laboratories, SHIFT, enabling capture, prototyping, post-production and presentation of immersive media outputs SHIFT (Shared Hub for Immersive Future Technologies) will deliver state-of-the-art collaborative co-production facilities for creative and cultural research. Bringing together practitioners and approaches from drama, film, architecture, music and sound, SHIFT will strengthen existing research and…

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  • Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 2022: Diverse Frequencies

    The last in this season’s Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series was a resounding success!  We were joined by a huge turnout for an evening of diverse experimental sounds by Black and South Asian artists, NikNak, Dhangsha, Nikki Sheth, Poulomi Desai, Gary Stewart and Dushume. The evening featured a collective celebration of music produced and created as part of the project Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental…

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  • Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 2022:  Constructs

    Last night, the Sound/Image Research Group presented their latest concert Constructs at the iconic musical church of St Alfege, Greenwich. Celebrating the role of women in contemporary electronic music, this concert of works for IKO loudspeaker featured new compositions from five female composers: Brona Martin, Emma Margetson, Angela McArthur and Nikki Sheth and Giulia Vismara. #loudpseakerorchestra22

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  • Sound and Ecology Micro Festival at Stave Hill, Rotherhithe over the Dawn Chorus Day Weekend

    30 April to 1 May 2022 As part of the Sound Camp event, Ian Thompson will be live-streaming the soundscape from a small patch of woodland in suburban Reading as part of Sound Camp, which takes place this weekend in Stave Hill Ecological Park, Rotherhithe, to mark International Dawn Chorus Day. Listen in here: https://tinyurl.com/EarleyChorus More information about…

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  • The Sampler Audiozine

    SOUND/IMAGE Composers Share their Practices with IKO for International Women’s Day Tune in to the fourth episode of The Sampler Audiozine with Emma Margetson, Angela McArthur, Brona Martin and Nikki Sheth. These four composers unpack what it’s like to work and create new music with and for IKO, a unique 3D inside-out speaker, as part of a research group at University of…

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  • For Want of (not) Measuring by Jim Hobbs & Patrick Adam Jones

    The Sound-Image Research Group is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition For Want of (not) Measuring by Jim Hobbs and Patrick Adam Jones at Kingsgate Projects in London. Over the past 8 months,Hobbs and Jones have developed individual and collaborative bodies of work which explore the problematic and poetic use of systems and measurement within their work. Where measurement often focuses…

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