Sound + Environment 2017
2016 - 2017
Sound + Environment 2017 is a four day conference bringing together artists and scientists to explore the ways that sound can deepen our understanding of environments. For example, recent developments in the field of ecoacoustics are proving fruitful in assessing ecosystem change. Sound is also increasingly used to monitor built structures and to inform urban design. We can use sound for scientific and artistic exploration, to inform and expand our knowledge of environments and our relationships to the world around us.
What can we learn from each other? Sound can inform a range of innovative interventions and solutions to problems. Through exploring scientific and artistic approaches together, we hope to engage with sound in order to create complementary ways of investigating, understanding, and taking action.
Sound + Environment 2017 aims to nurture meaningful collaborations which can generate new insights. The programme will feature paper sessions and panels; workshops; public performances; installations, and interventions.
Keynote speakers will include Chris Watson and Leah Barclay. Please see below for further details about speakers and the conference programme.
The conference will see the launch of ‘Trent Falls to Spurn Point’, a specially commissioned surround-sound installation from Chris Watson tracing the course of the Humber River, and ‘River Listening’, an augmented reality sound walk using the Echoes.xyz app from Leah Barclay, superimposing the sounds of rivers from around the world onto Hull. A number of other sound installations and performances will be featured in collaboration with Hull UK City of Culture and the PRS New Music Biennial. Visiting artist-in-residence, Dave Burraston, will also be presenting an installation and talk as part of his Rainwire project.
Sound + Environment 2017 is hosted by the School of Arts in collaboration with the Institute of Esturine and Coastal Studies, the Institute of Energy & Environment and the Institute of Culture, Place & Policy, at the University of Hull.
‘De Facto Cubists: Multi-Microphone Utilisation as Spatial Polyperspectivity’, Crosstown Traffic (IASPM UK&I, ASARP, Dancecult, ISMMS), University of Huddersfield
2018 - 2018
‘Frames to Spheres: The Abstract Ambisonic Spatial Paradigm in Reality’, 12th Art of Record Production Conference, Royal College of Music, Stockholm
2017 - 2017
Same Questions, Different Answers?: the convergence of art and science in the pilot module ‘Acoustic Ecology’, Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, University of Kent
2013 - 2013
Same Questions, Different Answers?: the convergence of art and science in the pilot module ‘Acoustic Ecology’, University Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2012, University of Hull, January 11th 2012
2012 - 2012
Unusual Ingredients
2019 - 2020
Technical consultation and training for surround presentation methods for upcoming published musical work.
Modus Arts
2019 - 2020
Impulse response capture technical consultation and aesthetics research
Ident package and functional music for Pro-Coders
2018 - 2018
Manchester Hill Remembered
2018 - 2018
Ambisonic recording, mixing and multi-perspective production of large-scale concert event: ‘Manchester Hill Remembered’, Brighter Sound, Manchester Histories and Manchester City Council (Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund), Manchester Cathedral
Dodda Maggý, Einkofi Productions in partnership with Curated Place and Absolutely Cultured
2018 - 2018
Technical consultation, ambisonic recording and decoder implementation: ‘Alda’, Dodda Maggý, Einkofi Productions in partnership with Curated Place and Absolutely Cultured
Playing the Bridge
2016 - 2017
Ambisonic recording and IR capture, technical consultation: Playing the Bridge, Nye Parry & Laurence Rugg, City of Culture 2017
Trent Falls to Spurn Point
2016 - 2017
Ambisonic array design and decoder implementation: Trent Falls to Spurn Point, Chris Watson (BBC, Touch Records), City of Culture 2017
Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology
2019 - 2019
Journal of the Art of Record Production, Proceedings from ARP 2017 conference
2018 - 2018
Book Review: An Introduction to Computer Music by Nick Collins (2010), Wiley, in The Journal of Music, Technology and Education
2011 - 2011