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The Sonic Arts Forum will be holding a free to attend event at De Montfort University Leicester on Saturday 18th of April 2026.
This is an opportunity for creative people, working with sound and technology as a significant element in their practice, to introduce their work, and receive feedback from the audience in a friendly, and supportive, environment.
Schedule for the day
10.00-10.20 am Tea and coffee
10.20 – 10.50 am Tom Williams – Clouds and clocks
10.55 – 11.25 am Matt Brombley – Collaborative improvisation
11.30 am – 12 pm Salma Ahmad Caller – Counter sonic archives
12.05- 12.35pm Sara Montagni – Bio-sensor enabled music
12.35-1.20pm Lunch
1.20-1.50pm Jonty Harrison & Pete Stollery – Aides… mémoires… project
1.55-2.25 pm Holly Gowland – Natural vs artificial
2.30-3.00pm Sibylle Pomorin – Colour sound flow
3.05-3.35pm Tristan Kersten – Process based composition
3.35-3.50pm break
3.50 – 4.20pm Bruno Quast – Acousmatic film sound design
4.25 – 4.55pm Andrey Chugunov – Astrophysical sonification
5.00- 5.30pm John Biddulph – Digital and analogue microtonality
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Tom Williams – An ambisonic composition inspired by Karl Popper’s ‘clouds and clocks’ and Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds.
Matt Brombley – A series of cross-form, cross genre trios that embed expressive electronica within improvisational and collaborative performances.
Salma Ahmad Caller – Works drawing on ethnographic sound archives which explore cross cultural entanglements, power dynamics, and environmental issues.
Sara Montagni – Using brain-computer interfaces, head-tracking, and eye tracking to allow those with severe motor impairments to create music.
Jonty Harrison and Pete Stollery – Short-form pieces (3 – 6 mins), each created from a single field recording from various locations around the world, delivered online via Google Maps.
Holly Gowland – A piece exploring the tension, and interplay, between the organism and the mechanical: the boundaries between the natural and the artificial.
Sibylle Pomorin – A Hommage to Éliane Radigue: a stream of sounds, a single, long, flowing, wide-ranging tone that constantly changes and shifts in different “colours”.
Tristan Kersten – Pieces created using simple material and variation techniques, with purity as their goal, to achieve the greatest effects.
Bruno Quast – Sound design for alternative films, inspired by acousmatic music, rather than melody or rhythm.
Andrey Chugunov – A sound and light installation based on astrophysical data from 14 radio pulsars depicted on the Voyager and Pioneer pulsar map.
John Biddulph – A microtonal work using test equipment, analogue/digital processing, and Iranian and European musical instruments.
Join us for a two-day BEAST event pursuing radical directions in synthetic sound and spatialisation with featured composers Rashad Becker and Ryu Hankil.
Exploring the edges of sonic fiction, nonlinear temporality, and hyperreal synthetic sound, the concerts will bring together Becker’s uncanny, intricately textured sonic dramaturgies with Hankil’s media-archaeological explorations of abandoned objects. The programme invites audiences into a space of speculative listening and imaginative world-building.
Fri 24 April:
14:00 – 16:00 Workshop: Rashad Becker
18:00 – 19.00 Concert: BEAST works
20:00 – 21:00 Concert: Ryu Hankil
Sat 25 April:
11:00 – 13:00 Workshop: Ryu Hankil
19:30 – 21:30 Concert: Rashad Becker, Christopher Haworth and Erik Nyström
Elgar Concert Hall and Dome, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
24-25 April 2026
11am-9.30pm
Free | Greenwich, London | 8 April 2026
The SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre invites composers, sound artists, researchers, and industry practitioners to propose talks, workshops, performances, and installations for Sonic Spheres, taking place in the Fireworks Factory at Woolwich Works on Saturday 9 May 2026.
Sonic Spheres is a one-day combined conference and evening concert dedicated to exploring, performing, and critically reflecting on creative approaches to spatial audio – particularly through composing and performing with the IKO loudspeaker.
This 2026 edition foregrounds hands-on practice, experimentation, and reflection, focusing on composing, performing, analysing, and building for both singular and multiple IKO loudspeakers. The IKO is both instrument and system: an immersive environment for spatial composition, diffusion, and live performance.
We actively encourage submissions from artists, researchers, and practitioners of all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented.
Special consideration will be given to students, apprentices, and emerging practitioners.
We welcome proposals including, but not limited to:
Submission Requirements:
We welcome artistic proposals engaging directly with one to three IKO loudspeakers with loudspeaker orchestra.
Acousmatic / Fixed Media
Live Performance
Installations
Submission Requirements:
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