Previous Events:

Sound/Image Exhibition, 30 Nov-18 Dec 2021

Using practice as a tool of critical enquiry, the SOUND/IMAGE Research Group investigates the possibilities available to create new aesthetic experiences through a range of sonic and audio-visual media technologies. Based in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Greenwich, the group has built an international reputation for hosting public events and conferences. These events seek to bring together creative practitioners and leading academics to share insights and reflect upon the latest audio-visual practices.

An exhibition and accompanying series of events showcasing the Sound/Image Research Group took place in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery at Greenwich during December 2021.

Exhibiting Group Members: Dushume (Amit Dinesh Patel); Jim Hobbs; Andrew Knight-Hill; Emma Margetson; Angela McArthur; Ian Thompson; Jonathan Weinel; Richard Whitby.

Event highlights included:

Sound Meditations from the Future with the IKO - 25 November 2021

A 1.5-hour deep listening immersion with one of the most fascinating and technologically advanced speaker systems ever created, performed by Angela McArthur and Gerriet K Sharma.

Image:  IKO Loudspeaker

Exhibition Launch - 30 November 2021

Navigating the immersive possibilities of sound in space, the Sound/Image ’21 exhibition included durational installations, It’s all right. I came back (2021) by Jim Hobbs, and Semhat Yawdem 2 (2021) by Ian Thompson, plus recent sound-works Boo Su 5’10”, Cultaural Fetish 1′ (2021) and PhliKr 9’43 (2020) by Dushume.

New and recent works composed for the IKO speaker featured as part of the exhibition installation; these by Emma Margetson, composer-in-residence during the exhibition, Angela McArthur, and other members of the group. Also presented, was video documentation of the virtual reality work for Oculus Quest, Cyberdream (2020) by Jonathan Weinel and Void (2019) by Andrew Knight-Hill.

Further information: http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk/events/

Image: It's all right. I came back (2021) Jim Hobbs

Instrumentalising Spaces: IKO Immersive Loudspeaker - 8 December 2021

Emma Margetson and Angela McArthur introduced the immersive qualities of the IKO loudspeaker through a talk and programme of sound-works composed specifically for it.

Works featured:

Cadavre Exquis IKO, Andrew Knight-Hill, Natasha Barrett, Nadine Schütz

Temporal Harmonics, Andrew Knight-Hill

Underheard, Angela McArthur

Shifted Trajectories, Emma Margetson

Affix, Emma Margetson, Dushume

Emma Margetson worked with the IKO as Composer in Residence during the exhibition.  This IKO residency was funded by the Arts Council England grant, Developing Your Creative Practice.

Image: Angela McArthur in discussion about the IKO with Andrew Knight-Hill, Amit Dinesh Patel and featured artist Emma Margetson, Dec 2021

ROT, Greenwich -  15 December 2021

A new performance by Siôn Parkinson and Richard Whitby, with Amit Dinesh Patel aka Dushume.

ROT, Greenwich is a new collaborative, semi-improvised performance, with Amit D Patel, aka Dushume. Using ‘rotting’ as a starting point, the artists will present a video score and a live piece of music using electronics, synthesisers, voice and more.

Siôn Parkinson works across music, performance, video and writing. He trained as a sculptor at Central Saint Martins and The Slade. He is currently an Amanda Burton Scholar at University of Leeds researching stink and music. Richard Whitby is an artist living in London. Richard has a PhD from the London Consortium and was a LUX Associate Artist 2011/12. He uses improvisation and DIY techniques as ways to make video and performance about scary things. Richard is also an editor of Dreck.co.uk.

Watch extract from ROT, Greenwich:

Images:  Siôn Parkinson, Richard Whitby and Amit Dinesh Patel aka Dushume, ROT, Greenwich, Dec 2021

Greenwich Sound Image Festival, 10-28 November 2020

In November 2020, the SOUND/IMAGE Festival took place with much of the festival reconfigured to enjoy online due to Covid restrictions.

Event highlights included:

Sound as a granular ever-present entity was the theme of an exhibition called Universal Crepitation, which used audio-visual works, including theatre, video, dance, music, and installation art. It started the festival on 10 November and ran online with window installations until 18 December. Curated by Mhari Vari, the exhibition featured: Ole Hagen, Hannah James-Scott, Hannah Jowett, Oscar Nearly, Rhea T-W & Mhairi Vari.

The festival also saw the launch of the recent Sound & Image: Aesthetics and Practices, Routledge publication. New releases from the surround sound record label Sonos Localia were also celebrated.

Sounds from Greenwich (14-28 November) was a challenge for people to record sound walks and curate soundscapes of the Greenwich borough area. Working with the Museum of Walking, the event was launched through an online Zoom workshop.

Members of the public and university community were invited to create unique sonic portraits of their Greenwich.

The online workshop was 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.

"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".

Other festival highlights included 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 Adjaye (Music for Architecture).

Watch Festival video:

SOUND/IMAGE Conference: Exploring Sonic and Audio-Visual Practice, 9-10 November 2019

This Colloquium explored the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves.

Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings and loudspeaker orchestra concerts – we invited artists and experts to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena.  Special guests included:

• Annette Vande Gorne, composer and artistic director of the international festival L’espace du son, who presented a multichannel acousmatic concert.
• Terry Flaxton has worked for decades with sound composition, photography and film.

Sound/Image 2019 Programme:

Sound/Image Conferences 2015-2018: