Loudspeaker Orchestra Concerts

We frequently host concerts, screenings and talks showcasing the work of students, staff and international experts in the field.

These concerts are open to the public and give our students the opportunity to be heard alongside world leading artists.

Sara Pinhero performs on the Loudspeker Orchestra as part of Sound / Image 2015.
Sara Pinhero performs on the Loudspeker Orchestra as part of Sound / Image 2015.

Concert Programme

Maison des Arts Sonores – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 18th March 2020 Time: 7pm – 10pm Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maison-des-arts-sonores-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73452647847 Artistic director Julien Guillamet presents a diverse concert of electroacoustic and acousmatic works developed by the composers and partners of the Montpellier based …

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Theremin Centenary Concert (w. Lydia Kavina) – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 19th February 2020 Time: 7pm – 10pm Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theremin-centenary-concert-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73451016969 Virtuoso Lydia Kavina leads a Theremin ensemble in a diverse programme celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the invention of the Theremin. Theremin …

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Explore Ensemble – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Tuesday 28th January 2020 Time: 7pm – 10pm Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/explore-ensemble-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73447991921 Concert Programme Featuring works for instruments and live electronics, reimagined and adapted forloudspeaker orchestra, from stereo to 16.1 surround. – Natasha Barrett Sagittarius …

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Gerriet K. Sharma & Angela McArthur – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

The Aesthetics of Sound As Space Gerriet K. Sharma & Angela McArthur Date: Wednesday 4th December 2019 Time: 7pm – 10pm Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gerriet-k-sharma-angela-mcarthur-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73446712093 Gerriet K. Sharma and Angela McArthur present a concert of works …

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SOUND/IMAGE 19

SOUND/IMAGE 19 – Exploring Sonic and Audio-Visual Practice Dates: 9-10th November 2019 This colloquium hosted by the School of Design of the University of Greenwich, explores the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. —– —– —– Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings and loudspeaker …

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Annette Vande Gorne – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Saturday 9th November 2019 Time: 7pm – 10pm Location: University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street, London SE10 9BD Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series This event will be included in the cost of the SOUND/IMAGE19 Conference ticket which can be booked here: https://sound-image-19.eventbrite.co.uk World leading composer Annette Vande …

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INA GRM Groupe de Recherches Musicales – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 6th November 2019 Time: 7pm – 10pm Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series —– INA / GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, visit us from Paris to present a rare London concert featuring a programme of acousmatic music featuring both …

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Immersive Hyperreal Soundscapes – w. Paula Fairfield & Brona Martin

On the 24th and 31st July 2019 in Highgate we put on diverse programmes of soundscape and electronic music presented in the Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology of L-ISA Ocean by L-Acoustics. Go behind the scenes to find out more in the following short documentary films: Learning about our successful Loudspeaker Orchestra concerts series, innovative audio …

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Simon Atkinson / Night Music – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019 Time: 7pm – 10pm Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series —– Simon Atkinson presents a programme of acousmatic and lowercase music inspired by the nocturnal and evocative of the night, projected over the Loudspeaker Orchestra. Simon is Associate …

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19/20 Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Loudspeaker Concert Series 2019/20. This year we welcome: Simon Atkinson, Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Annette Vande Gorne, Gerriet K. Sharma and Angela McArthur, Explore Ensemble, Lydia Kavina and Maison des Arts Sonores. Tickets are available through our events page, please do book in advance to …

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SOUND/IMAGE19 Special Guests Announced!

We are delighted to announced the very special guests who will be joining us for SOUND/IMAGE19. Annette Vande Gorne Annette Vande Gorne can be heard in concert (more than 500) in many European countries, as well as Canada, China and South America, presenting repertory works of acousmatics in addition to her own works, usually on …

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Annie Mahtani – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Real world sounds are transformed, manipulated and restructured to explore the juxtaposition of real, abstract and surreal soundworlds. Annie Mahtani’s work explores electronic music composition in all its facets, from acousmatic music to free improvisation and including collaborations within dance, theatre and site-specific installations. With a strong interest in field recording, her work often explores …

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Linear Obsessional – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert – 20th February, 7pm

An eclectic programme of field recordings, noise and drone music from this local independent label. Linear Obsessional is a label for limited edition CDs and records, and for unlimited free/name-your-price digital recordings of experimental and improvised music, and other sounds that fall between the cracks of category and genre. https://www.linearobsessional.org/index.html   RESERVE A PLACE HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linear-obsessional-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-50327999401 …

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Barry Truax – Concert 4th December (plus Student Talk and Tutorials)

On the 4th December we were delighted to welcome Barry Truax to present an an extended concert as part of our Loudspeaker Orchestra concert series. Lucky Sound Design students were also able to book up for one-to-one tutorials with Barry providing insights and advice on their compositional projects. ————— Barry Truax is a composer of …

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Electroacoustic Music in Great Britain – call for pieces and papers

Call for contributions: Electroacoustic Music in Great Britain: Past/Present/Future (26th / 27th January 2019) Marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of EMAS (The Electroacoustic Music Association of Great Britain) Electroacoustic Music in Great Britain: Past/Present/Future seeks to explore the varied history, and vibrant present, of electroacoustic music practice in the UK. In celebration of …

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Simon Emmerson – Concert 10/10/18

We were delighted to invite Simon Emmerson to present a concert of works in the beautiful musical church of St Alfege. This was a sublime event. The first of many in the space.   View the full collection of images here.  

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Ben Ramsay – Concert 21/09/18

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Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 2018 / 2019

We are delighted to announce our 2018/19 Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert series. One Record Label Launch, Two Weekend Colloquia, Eleven Loudspeaker Orchestra Concerts A diversity of musical styles and approaches from an international array of leading composers.

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Beginning of the Academic Year 2018/19

Dear Sound Designers, It’s almost time to begin another year and I am very much looking forward to welcoming you back to Greenwich. Geoff and the technicians have been busy over the summer with upgrades to the studios and we look forward to receiving some new equipment over the next few weeks which will begin …

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Adam Stanović & Alumni – Concert – 22/9/17

The first of our 2017/18 concert season, this loudspeaker orchestra concert presents works created by Composers and Sound Designers at the University of Greenwich alongside special guest Adam Stanović. This is a great opportunity to experience a concert of ‘spatial audio’. Composers will use live surround sound diffusion mixing to perform their pieces spatially within …

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Abstracted Journeys in Moscow – September 2017

Abstracted Journeys, a composition by Andrew Hill (Lecturer in Sound Design and Music Technology, and Programme Leader of the BA Sound Design programme at Greenwich), is to be performed as part of the 35th General Assembly of International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music CIME, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, September 25 – 28, 2017. One of three compositions …

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Sonic Interactions – Concert

Loudspeaker Orchestra Student Showcase – May 25th, 6:30pm Students from Sound Design and Greenwich present their sound and audiovisual works on the Loudspeaker Orchestra, marking the climax of the 2017 academic year. This is an opportunity for students to showcase their work to the public. To join them we invite students from the University of …

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Brona Martin – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert – 20/1/17

On the 20th January we welcomed composer Brona Martin to present a concert of her multichannel compositions alongside works by Sound Design students. Her works explore our relationship to sounds though memory and montage. Find out more: http://www.bronamartin.com

Sound / Image 2016

SOUND/IMAGE COLLOQUIUM 2016 Sound/Image Colloquium: Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice On the 12-13 November 2016 we held another highly successful Sound/ Image colloquium. We invited speakers from over ten countries to share their work and ideas around audio-visual practice, exploring the relationships between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. This …

Erik Nyström – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert – 22/9/16

The first of our 2016/17 concert season, this loudspeaker orchestra concert presents works created by Composers and Sound Designers at the University of Greenwich alongside special guest Erik Nyström. This is a great opportunity to experience a concert of ‘spatial audio’. Composers will use live surround sound diffusion mixing to perform their pieces spatially within …

Sound / Image 2016: Call for Submissions

We are seeking submissions for the 2016 Sound/Image Colloquium. Visit the Sound/Image 2016 page to make a submission or find out more. Sound/Image Colloquium: Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice 12-13 November 2016 The Sound/Image colloquium is interested in exploring the relationships between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. Through …

Sound / Image – 2015

(November 2015) An international colloquium on sound and audio-visual practice. With talks from international experts, screenings and loudspeaker orchestra concerts from artists and composers. Click here for more info:

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Manuella Blackburn Concert

(October 2015) Composer Manuella Blackburn headlined a concert of works on the Loudspeaker Orchestra. The concert featured works from Manuella and Sound Design Students from Greenwich.

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Noise Colloquium 2015

(March 2015) A two-day colloquium to exploring noise in music and art. Noise as a concept that embraces the expressive, the idea of noise as a resistance and, through mutating repetition, a catalyst for creative production. From this perspective noise moves out of the solely auditory register into a multisensory realm of non- representational logic. …

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Stille Lyd

(January 2015) A surround sound concert of electroacoustic music works performed by loudspeaker orchestra. Collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Technology in Music and the Arts (NOTAM), featuring works composed by Andrew Hill, with pieces by contemporary composers based at NOTAM, and a performance of the original four channel version of the piece ‘Solitaire’ by the Norwegian …

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