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