SoundFjord

30/06/2024

In our fourth network event, the Network presents its first field trip! 28 Aug-01 Sept, facilitated by Ayşe Köklü and Helen Frosi. And you are invited! (See below for application info.)

We will explore gusty Shetland, listening and swaying with the isle's infamous air flows, an abundant natural resource we will honour as the centre point and compass of our research.

We will blow with the wind, touch the intangible, and play with this trickster element, co-constituting and exchanging interests by way of creative sessions, walks, screenings, readings, conversations, meals and (alternative) documentations.

Applications: all are welcome to apply. I deadline is today however our application is light touch! We mainly want to know about your interests and what you do!

Field Trip: Windworks

13/06/2024

Applications are sort from CHASE Studentship holders* for our forthcoming field trip to Shetland. Led by Ayşe Köklü and Helen Frosi! We'll be all ears on the wind, working in and with trickster air currents as compass and calibration for our research!

*PhD researchers and indie scholars may apply for any remaining slots. Apply online via our website's Events section. Deadline 30th June!

Field Trip: Windworks

12/06/2024

Research Network has its next event on Fri 28 June. And we're delighted to have Annie Goh, Sandra Kazlauskaite and Marie Thompson presenting!
Join us from 11am-4:45pm for discussion lunch and networking. Further details are in link.
Swift sign-up is recommended as places are limited.

An afternoon of presentations & networking for those interested in the auraldiverse turn in Arts & Humanities research: theory and praxis.

11/06/2024

Last event in this iteration of !
Join George Ridgway and SoundFjord as we head into the night this Saturday (15 June) from 8:15pm-10:30pm for a presentation and counter-survey of research weaving (in) audible worlds, from bats to the Aurora Borealis. Including a woodland walk. Free, signup required as places limited:

A presentation and counter-survey of research weaving (in) audible worlds. From bats to the Aurora Borealis. Includes woodland night walk.

04/06/2024

has an extra event: Intimacies of Wave Relation with George Ridgway. 15 June 8:15pm-c.10pm! Join us for a presentation and counter-survey of research weaving (in) audible worlds, from bats to the Aurora Borealis. Includes woodland night walk. Email for tickets; info (only) via Eventbrite:

A presentation and counter-survey of research weaving (in) audible worlds. From bats to the Aurora Borealis. Includes woodland night walk.

14/05/2024

This 22 May, AuralPluralities will be hosting their next in-person network event. It's a chance to meet others interested in critiquing asumptions within the creative practices of hearing, listening and audio arts as well as a chance to meet other sound artists and guest speaker Rob Mackay, whose recent work has been following monarch butterfly migrations. He'll also be performing a selection of his work on the MAAST multi array sound theatre!
Sign up is free and open to all. For those unable to attend the university of Kent, we will be streaming live. Information/tickets:

Network time for Arts and Humanities students, researchers and scholars. Event includes a talk, discussion & sound diffusion by Rob MacKay.

13/04/2024

Composing Place, is the focus for our second network event, this time hosted by Aki Pasoulas at University of Kent. Our guest speaker is Rob MacKay, who'll also present a rather special multi-channel diffusion of his work!
Our network is free to attend; booking is staggered: CHASE researchers may book now; CHASE university staff/students: from 22 April; the public: from 6th May. Do bookmark our page now though!

Network time for Arts and Humanities students, researchers and scholars. Event includes a talk, discussion & sound diffusion by Rob MacKay.

18/03/2024

Ecological listening: from sound art to action, is the focus for our inaugural network event, this Friday at the University of Sussex, from noon. Presenters include: About Face/Ben Kelly, Jono Gilmurray, Ann Light and Bethan Prosser.

We have at least 5 free tickets available for the general public. (Sign up via the waiting list for conformation via email.)

A series of free talks and a workshop centred around Ecological Listening.

06/11/2023

The EnCOUnTERs mycelium has been taking in all the recent rain water, and formed a most beautiful fruiting body in the shape of a workshop on the complex soundworlds of aquatic plants!

Join Action Pyramid (Tom Fisher) on Wed 15 Nov, 2-4pm, for a session bringing together mimicry and play as modes of investigation and interpretation of photosynthesis and phyto responses to the environment at large.

This session can be booked via the Cafe Oto website, but takes place at Goldsmiths. Places are limited.

The session is part of x series. This particular event is also made possible via Goldsmith's (SPR).

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/an-ear-to-the-plants-workshop/

04/10/2023

We are winding down out activities - after a spring and summer of ecological vibrations - with the last of our Rhythm Studies walks (for the moment at least!) on 14 October 2023.

This AM twilight wander (sibling to our recent PM twilight walk) will be full of possibility, with the morning stretching out into the day, highlighted by the cool golden light of morning.

Join us in North London for a collective listening to the worlds round us: as some stretch into the business of the day, whilst others put paws over eyes as the sun awakes.

Tickets and information:
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhythm-studies-aurora/
Series: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/music-and-other-living-creatures-x-encounters/

26/09/2023

The x series performances are coming to a close this evening with a stunning set of performances from Aine O'Dwyer and Sarah Angliss. Sharing space with our avian friends.

We hope you can make it to share in the celebrations and to sing through the night with us!

26 Sept 7:30pm to late.
Tickets are available in advance and on the door:

"[B]irds appear to listen most closely not to the melodies that catch our ears but rather to fine acoustic details in the chips and twangs of their songs that lie beyond the range of human perception." - Adam Fishbein, Scientific American, How Birds Hear Birdsong (May 2022)