Sonic Lab
The Sonic Laboratory at SARC could best be thought of as a ‘cinema for the ear’ – a specialist acoustic space designed to provide a unique and immersive listening experience. Forty-eight loudspeakers, strategically located, project and move sounds throughout the 360 degrees of the space, including above and underneath the audience. The Sonic Lab was designed with an acoustically transparent, modular grid floor suspended 4m above the basement level. As a research facility, the lab provides unique opportunities to explore new ideas and practices relating to performance, augmented reality, room acoustics, music perception, musical human-computer interaction, new instrument design and sound engineering.
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...
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...
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
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...