Events

Join NE Sound Women Network for an online meetup and connect with other women and minority gender people to share your projects, activities and other things that may be of interest.

The group are currently planning some workshops, so come along and share your ideas!

Email northeastsoundwomen@gmail.com to request the joining link.

Auris brings a new listening experience to Manchester as the city’s first dedicated sound art festival. It invites us to tune into our sense of sound, bringing people together through an artistic programme that presents new ideas, uncovers histories and challenges perspectives.

Taking place 9–11 October, the festival profiles some of the most distinctive and exciting voices in contemporary sound art, uncovering the many ways sound can be experienced. Expect three days of installations, performances, spatial audio, talks, workshops and soundwalks.

Performances

Francisco López / Lee Patterson / Lola de la Mata / Nik Colk Void / Ryoko Akama / Robin The Fog / WEȽ∝KER

Installations

Kamila Narysheva / Vicky Clarke / Wajid Yaseen

Spatial Audio

Brona Martin / Text-Sound-Art / Miko Tchórzewski / Markus Decker / Bernard Kelly / Totaleee / Nye Parry / Cameron Naylor / Scald / Horse Lords / Arconic Sound / Jose Macabra / Mick Harris

Talks / Workshops

Emma Margetson / Hannah Kemp-Welch / Mark Wagner / Signkid / Kate Carr / Iain Chambers / Jez riley French / Matt Barnard

Soundwalks

Maya Chowdhry / Markus Hetheier / Hayley Suviste / Ryan Woods

The festival takes place within some of Manchester’s most distinctive and iconic spaces, bringing sound art into buildings that have been shaped by a history of industry, science and innovation. Unfolding across the Anthony Burgess Foundation, a converted 19th-century mill space that once housed the machinery of the industrial revolution; SEESAW, a century-old Grade II listed former textile warehouse; The Renold Building at Sister, a brutalist space of great importance to the city’s scientific and technological past and future; and SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University’s pioneering centre for digital arts.

Early bird tickets have now sold out, but weekend passes are available now, with concessions available for students and people from low-income households. Day tickets will
be on sale soon. For the current programme and booking information, visit aurisfestival.com.

Auris is developed by Modus Arts, an award-winning Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, funded by Arts Council England and supported by Resonance FM and The Wire, and is part of The Cultural Welcome, a special week of student events around the Oxford Road Corridor, Manchester’s Knowledge Quarter.

Join artists Hayley Suviste and Lizzie King for a guided sound walk along the River Irwell in Peel Park.

During this soundwalk, we will slow down and listen closely to the river and its surroundings, using different recording methods to explore often-hidden layers of sound, including the river’s underwater world. The walk will end with a relaxed conversation over hot drinks back at the New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery about what we noticed, heard, and experienced.

The walk builds on approaches developed through The River Has Many Lives, an audio-visual artwork currently showing as part of the Carry the Clouds Away exhibition which explores the varied ways in which we find inspiration, connection, and solace in places of nature.

This workshop will be ran as part of Go Green week festival with the University of Salford Sustainability team!

For the soundwalk guests will meet at 12:30 at the New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, before walking down to the river to commence the sound walk. We will then return to the gallery to talk about our findings over hot drinks!

This event is free, however you must book your free tickets in advance. Spaces are limited so make sure to book.

The New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery is located on the ground floor of the New Adelphi building. The gallery is wheelchair accessible, with seating, toilets, and a shop/cafe for refreshments available within the New Adelphi building.

Read more on our Carry the Clouds Away exhibition here.

See our Visit us page here.

For further access queries email: artcollection@salford.ac.uk

BEASTdome feat. Annette Vande Gorne, Saturday 24 October
Head to the link in our bio for Tickets and Full Details.

As part of her 80th Birthday Celebrations, BEAST is delighted to welcome electroacoustic pioneer Annette Vande Gorne for our Autumn BEASTdome evening.
Founder of the Musiques & Recherches centre and the internationally renowned L’Espace du Son festival, she has been instrumental in shaping both the practice and dissemination of acousmatic art. Her work explores the physical and energetic qualities of sound, often drawing inspiration from nature, while placing particular emphasis on spatial composition as a central musical parameter.

18:30 – Sat 24th – BEAST Composers and works selected through the British Electroacoustic Network Call for Works.
20:00 – Sat 24th – Annette Vande Gorne.
11:00 – Sun 25th – Diffusion Workshop with Annette Vande Gorne (Free, Booking Essential)

Five exciting new voices in Scottish electroacoustic music will premier their new works made from sounds that they collected together. Composers Tom Macfadyen, Flynn Butler Fraser, Aidan Lochrin, Emily Rae, and Darlene Zarabozo collaboratively recorded sounds that they collected from their homes in Scotland. These everyday sounds have been re-shaped, and layered to produce immersive sound worlds with unexpected twists and turns. Each piece will be diffused over our multichannel speaker system, filling the entire space with sound and enveloping the listener in what promises to be a cinematic and exciting introduction to these experimental sonic artists.