When: 9:30-12:30, 18/10/2023
Where: ECA West Court, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
What: A workshop exploring collaborative practice through sonic objects
For: up to 24 participants aged 16 or over
UNESCO Week of Sound events are free, book a ticket.
In this workshop, participants are invited to engage in the production of a sonic landscape in collaboration with others. No musical experience is necessary. Working together with Graham Barton and relationally oriented psychotherapist Melissa Dunlop, you will explore how making sound together facilitates personal and collective development.
As a mode of engagement, making sound offers a means to listen and to act. The activities in the workshop are designed to accommodate multiple ways of making sound in a improvised group context. You do not need to bring instruments or electronics along, but are most welcome to bring sound-making tools and instruments if you have them.
Presenters
Graham Barton, University of the Arts London
Graham works as a multi-disciplinary practitioner in Higher Education, specialising in learning development and creative arts learning practices. Following an early career in commercial property as a Chartered Surveyor, he switched to parallel careers in Higher Education, specialising in English for Academic Purposes and digital practice in learning development, and in the performing arts as a musician/sound designer/producer. He has produced music for BBC, Sky, Endemol and Channel 4, including Channel 4’s daytime idents 2000-2004, and performed at music and arts festivals in Europe and the US.
Areas of practice research interest include contemplative practices for self-enquiry in learning, sound arts practice and its potential for developing visual arts learning, and other creative methodologies for developing learner meta-, epistemic- and systemic cognition.
Melissa Dunlop, independent researcher
Melissa works as a relationally-oriented psychotherapist, a creative supervisor, and recently graduated with a PhD from University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI or SeaCry) where she used auto-fiction as method of inquiry. An active member of Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry Network (CANI-Net), the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) and an experienced group facilitator and psychotherapy trainer, Melissa’s work centres on collaborative relational processes and practices, and uses creativity and creative action methods as means of unearthing and exploring unconscious aspects of experience. The change process is integral to her work.