Keynote – Simon Waters

Inhabiting Sound Seamus Heaney – ‘Clearances’ In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984 She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and the hammer angled right. The sound of that

Sean Williams – From centimetres to seconds: sound design’s shift from technical serialism to musically informed performance practice in the 1950s WDR Studio, Cologne

Music made in the West Deutsche Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in the 1950s was characterized by a strict serialist determination of all sound parameters. In Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie II, and Gesang der Jünglinge, sounds as short as 0.05 seconds

Richard Coyne – Why sound reaches the parts architecture can’t

“Physical spaces are charged with meaning and emotion for most of us — some spaces more than others. But it’s rare to enter a building or encounter spectacular scenery and experience the same intensity of emotion many of us feel

Panel discussion – Scaling to fit and coping with detail

Sound is data. Alterations in the structure of data can create events of audible and emotional value. Delayed and modulated samples create filters, an array of samples create microseconds of a wavetable, milliseconds and seconds of samples create distinguishable sound events.

Not a Concert – drinks reception and installation launch

Drinks reception in B28, 6pm Attendees are welcome to this  reception in room B28, a room filled with loudspeakers and currently used to support NESS (Next generation Sound Synthesis), an ERC funded project concerned with sound synthesis, effects processing and

Concert – fractions and factions

Tonight’s concert will feature Jules Rawlinson’s Please use the tramps provided, a wacom-tablet driven piece of live electronics. Lauren Hayes will perform an improvisation called contactor. playRoom Martin Parker’s anti-sweetspot rant has been cancelled. Please come to Inspace for 8pm,