A Covid-safe festival of sound and vision takes place at the University of Greenwich this week.
Greenwich SOUND/IMAGE sees artists, sound designers, residents and more aiming to bring some light to lockdown.
The government decision to impose tighter restrictions has seen organisers reconfigure much of the festival so it can be enjoyed online.
Sound as a granular ever-present entity is the theme of an exhibition called Universal Crepidation, which uses audio-visual works, including theatre, video, dance, music, and installation art. It starts the festival tomorrow (November 10) and runs online with window installations until 18 December. Curated by Mhari Vari, the exhibition features: Ole Hagen, Hannah James-Scott, Hannah Jowett, Oscar Nearly, Rhea T-W & Mhairi Vari).
The festival also sees the launch of the recent Sound & Image: Aesthetics and Practices, Routledge publication. New releases from the surround sound record label Sonos Localia will also be celebrated.
Sounds from Greenwich (14 - 28 November) is a challenge for people to record sound walks and curate soundscapes of the Greenwich borough area. Working with the Museum of Walking, the event will be launched through an online Zoom workshop.
Members of the public and university community are invited to create unique sonic portraits of their Greenwich.
The workshop can be recorded and made available through Youtube / Vimeo throughout the SOUND / IMAGE Festival fortnight. The online workshop will be delivered by podcaster Andrew Stuck and Marcin Barski, a sound artist based in Krakow.
Festival curator Andrew Knight-Hill said: "Greenwich SOUND/IMAGE presents a series of exhibitions, workshops, talks and activities showcasing leading audio-visual art and questioning the relationships between sound and image. Everyone involved has worked incredibly hard to adapt and morph the festival into an accessible online format.
"The School of Design has hosted a SOUND/IMAGE conference since 2015, inviting international world leading artists to share their work and practice in an open and accessible environment.
"This year, with support of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and in partnership with The Queen's House, Greenwich Hospital, Museum of Walking and School of Noise, we are delighted to programme a public festival of exhibitions and activities, bringing this leading research and exploration of Sound and Image to the Greenwich community.
"I was also thrilled recently to be asked to compose two short works for trumpet to be performed by participants of the St Andrew's Music Participation programme, who are working to inspire young people to take up playing brass.
"Especially composed to be performed over Zoom, these works for trumpet were recorded and remixed for concert presentation."
The concert is available via YouTube and the programme features works by: Giovanni Gabrieli and Andrew Knight-Hill; Prospère-Aginor Mimart; Markus Stockhausen; Eddie McGuire; Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Other festival highlights include a video of a sound making workshop with the School of Noise; Expanded Artforms, works by the university's Digital Arts MA students from the School of Design; and an online talk by Peter Adjye (Music for Architecture).
You can read more on the university galleries here. For more on the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, see here.
