Spatial Aesthetics and Immersive Environments

Via access to the latest technologies for sound and image, our research explores the potential in constructing, and articulating enveloping media environments. Our experience of the world is fundamentally spatial, but so often in history the multidimensional has been collapsed into more simplisitic two dimensional fields. We explore Spatial Audio, Multi-channel composition, 360º video projection, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Game Engines and performance.

  • 13/04: Composing Space

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series with The Royal Observatory Venue: Peter Harrison Planetarium, Royal Observatory Greenwich, SE10 8XJ Date: 13 April 2022 Time: 7pm Entry: £5, booking is required Transporting the audience to other worlds, this concert presents a constellation of compositions and audiovisual works that unite the forces of the Royal Observatory and the SOUND/IMAGE Research Group from…

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  • 04-06/03: IKO @ Deliaphonic

    Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series Venue: Coventry Cathedral, CV1 5AB Date: 4-6 March 2022 Times:  Friday 4 March, 10am-6pm / Saturday 5 March, 10am-5pm / Sunday 6 March, 10am-5pm Entry:  Free, no booking is required Celebrating the life and work of BBC radiophonic pioneer Delia Derbyshire, we’re delighted to bring our unique IKO instrument to Coventry for the Deliaphonic Festival.…

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  • 8/12: Instrumentalising Spaces: IKO Immersive Loudspeaker

    Date: 8 December 2021 Venue: Stephen Lawrence Gallery Emma Margetson and Angela McArthur introduced the immersive qualities of the IKO loudspeaker through a talk and programme of sound-works composed specifically for it. Works featured: Cadavre Exquis IKO, Andrew Knight-Hill, Natasha Barrett, Nadine Schütz Temporal Harmonics, Andrew Knight-Hill Underheard, Angela McArthur Shifted Trajectories, Emma Margetson Affix, Emma Margetson, Dushume Emma Margetson worked with the IKO as Composer in…

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