101 Outdoor Arts, Communication Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG19 6HN
In the Site and Sound Symposium, we will bring together artists, designers, technologists, and researchers to investigate how sound art and performance can meet the public in the natural and built environment. We will explore how the use of sound-led practice in the outdoors can create experiential opportunities for diverse audiences to access arts, culture, and collective memory. Key questions include the technical, critical, contextual, and ecological considerations of these practices, as well as the tools, technologies, and approaches best suited for this purpose.
Key speakers include Anne Bean of legendary sound-art-performance group Bow Gamelan, composer/theatre-maker Melanie Wilson, environmental sound-artist and beatboxer Jason Singh, specialist in the role of noise in protest and ritual, Tim Hill, sound artist Emily Peasgood, Professor Ray Lee - creator of large scale kinetic sound sculpture and Julian Henriques (tbc) researcher in reggae sound systems and public space, Dan Balfour – theatre sound designer working with landscape theatre company Wildworks and Charles Hazlewood – leader of the Paraorchestra and creator of disability street music project Smoosh! There will also be practical demonstrations of We Are Stems revolutionary wearable outdoor sound technology Flock and Ray Lee’s geolocated sound promenade piece Congregation
Developed by Oxford Contemporary Music, 101 Outdoor Arts and The Centre for Performance, Technology and Equity (PTEQ) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
£20 waged/£10 unwaged (ticket automatically included in registration for Base Frequencies Lab)
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