with IKLECTIK

ex.sses (live) 

Bea Brennan  (live) + L’Aubaine (live visuals)

MindScape: Immersive Listening and Sonic Reflection is a research-driven project that investigates the impact of immersive 3D sound environments on human perception and awareness. By guiding participants through focused listening experiences, the project seeks to explore how sound can shape thought processes, emotional responses, and sensory engagement. MindScape combines advanced audio technologies with reflective listening practices, creating a unique dynamic connection between sound and the mind.  

ex.sses 

ex.sses is an experimental producer who fuses heavy bass, broken percussion and textural soundscapes. She has built a palette of sounds unconfined by genre. ex.sses’ ties to experimental sound and club culture have manifested in releases on TT, BAIT, glint, Cherche Encore and more. Her work is constantly exploring physicality, memory and the gendered body through poetry, and intricate sound design. 

Bea Brennan 

Bea Brennan is a London based musician and visual artist inspired by perceptual phenomena and the unstable nature of memory. Her process involves meticulous sound design with generative and improvised compositional techniques to create vivid sound worlds that seem to exist somewhere between the natural and the imagined. Bea has released 3 albums on Anthony Child (aka Surgeon) and Dan Bean’s Old Technology label. She is a member of the Bleep43 collective and has performed multichannel works in many notable UK venues, including the new ambient/ experimental ‘Tree Stage’ at Glastonbury 2024. 

L’Aubaine

L’Aubaine (Laurie Bender) is a visual artist and performer, exploring the interconnection between image, sound, space and non-linear narration. She combines her love and skills for graphic design, fine arts, animation in her live visuals.  She performed in many set ups from underground raves, club nights to big festivals in UK and continental Europe, adding real-time visuals to mainly electronic music.

Intelligences from the Underground is a two-day international symposium bringing together artists, researchers, technologists, and community organisers exploring alternative approaches to AI through creative practice, improvisation, and collective inquiry.

Convened by Dr Maria Sappho and Dr Una MacGlone (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Professor Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana), the event gathers collaborators working at the intersection of art, technology, and social practice.

Across talks, performances, workshops, prototyping and building, and open discussions, the symposium will explore:

What can we do about AI? Those of us at the fringe, the underground, the countercultural.
How might AI emerge from community knowledge and artistic experimentation?
What can improvisation, feminist technology, and ecological thinking contribute to AI research?
How can creative technologies support more ethical and socially embedded futures? Can it?
The symposium will feature:

Conversations on creative and ethical AI design and usage
Short talks from international research and artistic partners
Hands-on Underground Labs exploring experimental technologies and new instruments and artistic works pushing the boundaries of AI in creative practice.
A live gig featuring international visiting artists and Glasgow’s favourite Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
Roundtable discussions shaping future research and artistic networks
The event is open to artists, researchers, students, technologists, and curious members of the public interested, worried, or ambivalent to the arrival of AI in everyday, creative, and social practice.

This event is funded by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Athenaeum Award.

This event also includes an evening concert, 29th June 2026. The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow. Tickets sold separately on Eventbrite.