Site and Sound Symposium
As part of a new Sound and the Outdoors programme, 101 Outdoor Arts and the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama present the Site and Sound Symposium on Tue 3 June.
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 researcher in reggae sound systems and public space, Dan Balfour – theatre sound designer working with landscape theatre company Wildworks and award-winning conductor Charles Hazlewood, Artistic Director of Paraorchestra and creator of their street music and dance parade, SMOOSH! There will also be practical demonstrations of We Are Stems revolutionary wearable outdoor sound technology Flock, Ray Lee’s geolocated sound promenade piece Congregation as well as academic panels including Duncan MacLeod and Paul Stevens (see biographies on the 101 website).
Book your tickets for the Site and Sound Symposium today!
