2022 Programme
By location:
Accidental Theatre
Banana Block
Black Box
Harty Room
MMR SARC
Online
Other SARC
QFT
QSS
Sonic Lab
Wed 6th - Sun 10th April 2022
Wed 6th 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
Xenia Pestova Bennett - As Trees Grow
Featuring: Xenia Pestova Bennett (piano) and Ed Bennett (live electronics) Microtonal recordings of frozen waterfalls, truffle mycelia, fruiting trees in Umbria, ephemeral spring wildflowers in Canada: join us on a journey across a rich tapestry of music for piano and...
Performance
Sonorities Launch Party @ Banana Block
Sonorities is excited to partner with Belfast’s new living museum and events space Banana Block. For our Launch Party, we host a series of short performances by sound artists working with voice, found objects and electronics. Food will be available...
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...
Featuring
Thur 7th 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
Czajka & Puchacz + Gianluca Elia
When invited to do a residency at Belfast’s Sonic Lab, the Copenhagen-based duo Czajka & Puchacz (Kaja Draksler on piano and keyboards & Szymon Gąsiorek on drums, vocal, and electronics) immediately knew they want to expand the group by inviting...
Performance
Vula Viel
Following the acclaimed release of ‘What’s Not Enough About That’ Vula Viel expanded and developed their unique live show, performing at the likes of Café OTO, Total Refreshment Centre, Generations Festival, Moers Festival, Bezau Beatz, Willisau Jazz Festival, Music Meeting...
Performance
Simon Mawhinney performs Feldman’s Triadic Memories
An atmospheric late night performance of one of Morton Feldman’s legendary late works, Triadic Memories. With a duration of ninety minutes, this single-movement work is focuses on the liminal space between perception, concentration and memory. Existing in a kind of...
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...
Featuring
Fri 8th 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...
Talk
Symposium Keynote: Simon Waters
Further Entanglements: Observing the early stages of the analogue – digital shift in music’s infrastructure and organisation. In a 2021 publication which grew from a conference presentation in Finland I suggested that we might learn something about current musical practices...
Performance
Resist @ Banana Block
From the super-fun-neon-songs of alicee and the industrial-infused experimental pop of Lia Mice’s Chaos Bells. To the free improvising dance distorting duo of -ence and the heavy genre-bending re-synthesis of Son Zept. RESIST continues its tradition of bringing exciting nights...
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...
Featuring
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...
Featuring
Sun 10th 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...
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...
Featuring
Performance
JAM Concert
Sonorities are proud to present the Junior Academy of Music (JAM) 4 Creative Music Technology students. This session will involve talented and promising electronic music producers / future sound designers coming together as a group in order to build their...
Installation
Consonance 1
Consonance is a project exploring how artificial intelligence can visually interpret poetry. By combining the power of poetry with the infinite visual range of AI, we can create entirely original content that is simultaneously art, poetry and music. Consonance is...
Performance
The Night With… featuring Emma Lloyd
Presented by Sonorities and The Night With… New work by Emilie Girard-Charest (violin and electronics)* New work by Egidija Medeksaite (violin and tape)* Swainsong by Rylan Gleave (violin and tape)! The Machine – Darlene Zarabozo (violin and live electronics)! New work by Emma Lloyd * – commissioned by The...