Sat 9th April 2022
Installation
Sound Installations @ SARC
Throughout Sonorities, the studios and spaces of SARC will be activated with sound art installations and experiences. Listen closely in the foyer for some spectral shifting or venture to the basement for some tactile interactions. Most installations run throughout the...
Performance
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
This International open call for works for the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble was initiated as part of Sonorities Festival plans for April 2020. It was not possible to perform the works at that time due to the Covid pandemic. After another...
Installation
Small Voice
The internet has enabled a democratisation and decentralisation of knowledge. The proliferation of online communities has created echo-chambers where our beliefs and opinions are reinforced but rarely challenged. Opaque algorithms proposition us, guiding our reading and watching, shaping our opinions...
Talk
Symposium Keynote: Jonathan Sterne and Mara Mills
Domesticating Time-Stretching, 1974-1981 What do Talking Books for the blind and Parliament-Funkadelic have in common? They both made use of audio playback tools that can vary pitch and playback rate independently of one another, a technique now called time-stretching (or...
Performance
Handmade Music
Sonorities and Moving on Music present… An extended evening of improvised and experimental musics, featuring 12 local and international acts performing across two floors of Accidental Theatre. This is the latest edition of the Handmade Music series, which brings together...
Installation
Sound Installations @ QSS
Sonorities is delighted to once again partner with QSS Gallery and Studios to present installation artworks as part of the festival’s programme. Please bring headphones and smartphone to access QR code-activated audio at the Quills That Whisper exhibition.
Installation
Sound Installations @ Banana Block
Connemara Landscape (2020) is a new sound work by Christopher Steenson created for Sonorities 2022. Taking the work of Belfast-born Irish painter Paul Henry as a departure point, Steenson’s sonic landscape will explore contemporary environment and traditions of Connemara within...
Installation
Screenings @ QFT
Sonorities is proud to partner with Queen’s Film Theatre to present a double-bill screening of audiovisual work each day of the festival. The two works programmed for the screening, Vince Briffa’s ‘OUTLAND’ and Virgilio Oliveira’s ‘Douro: Symphony of a River’,...
Installation
Sound Installations Online
Two online mobile audio walks are available throughout the festival. We invite you to activate these locative audio experiences and follow their alternative mappings of Belfast beyond the festival venues. Please access the online audio walks via the links provided...
Installation
Listening Rooms
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. With the works playing in a loop, each day will see the playback...
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