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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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  • Art of Sound: Creativity in Film sound and Electroacoustic Music on Tonebenders Podcast

    Think of this episode as a summer reading guide for the audio nerd. The authors of 3 recent publications about sound, get together to talk about their books, how they decided to write them and how to best use them as resources. Emi Paternostro talks about his book “The Pro Tools Post-Audio Cookbook”, Gina Zdanowicz…

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  • SOUND/IMAGE on the Immersive Audio Podcast

    In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel and Monica Bolles are joined by the University of Greenwich Professor of Music and Sound Arts – Andrew Knight-Hill and the Acousmatic Composer and Sound Artist – Dr Emma Margetson from London, UK. We dive into the meaning and functions of creativity in spatial audio…

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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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  • 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…

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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/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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  • 24/06: Mindscape 

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with IKLECTIK Venue: Bathway Theatre Date: Wednesday 24 June 2026 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required MindScape: Immersive Listening and Sonic Reflection is a research-driven project that investigates the impact of immersive 3D sound environments on human perception and awareness. By guiding participants through focused listening experiences, the project seeks to explore how…

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

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with British Electroacoustic Network  Venue: St Alfege Church Date: Wednesday 11 March 2026 Time: 7pm (doors 6.30pm) Entry: £5, booking is required Celebrate 75 years of groundbreaking UK sound arts! This special programme, shaped in collaboration with our community, brings together tape, electroacoustic and sound works that have helped define and diversify the field.…

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  • 25/02: Shared Frequencies: Artist in Residence Showcase 

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Bathway Theatre  Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026 Time: 7pm (doors 6.30pm) Entry: £5, booking is required Shared Frequencies opens the doors to our laboratories to showcase a programme of works incubated and developed as part of our Artists-in-Residence programme at the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre. Engaging with our World Class Labs facilities and expert…

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  • 22/10: Sound Unbound: A Century of Berio and Boulez 

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with Northern Lights Project and Tempo Reale   Venue: St Alfege Church Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Darragh Morgan violin  Sarah Watts clarinet   2025 marks the centenary of two of the 20th century’s most influential composers: Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez. Visionary and uncompromising, both reimagined the possibilities…

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  • Sonic Explorations 

    Postgraduate Show 2025 Venue: Bathway Theatre, Bathway, London SE18 6QX Date: Thursday 18 September 2025 Time: 7pm Entry: Free, doors will open at 6.30pm – booking required  Join us for an evening of performances, showcasing forward-thinking and innovative projects created by students on the MA Music and Sound Design programme.   This event highlights the breadth and diversity…

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  • Jane Frances Dunlop and Brona Martin

    Immersive Experimentations 2nd August 2024 A presentation of works in progress by Jane Frances Dunlop and Brona Martin. Jane Frances Dunlop and Brona Martin shared new artworks created with the support of the Early Career Academic Pilot Project Fund using the new Shared Hub Immersive Future Technologies (SHIFT) facilities at the University of Greenwich. The presentation…

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  • Nicola Plant

    Cross Modal Machine Learning in Creative Practice 25th June 2024, Bathway Theatre, Woolwich Nicola’s talk included a discussion on artistic process: ‘cross modalmachine learning in creative practice’, VR demos and a Q&A. BiographyNicola Plant is an artist, creative technologist and researcher withan academic and artistic practice interested in empathy, embodimentand movement-based interactive art technology and…

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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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  • 23/07: MindScape

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series in collabration with IKLECTIK  Venue: Bathway Theatre Date: Wednesday 23 July 2025 This event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances, and will be rescheduled for the 25/26 series Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Line up: MindScape: Immersive Listening and Sonic Reflection is a research-driven project that investigates the impact of immersive…

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