2024 Programme
Tue 9th – Sat 13th April 2024
Exhibition
Holonic Fields
Holonic Fields is a collaboration between Northern Irish composer Rory Friers (ASIWYFA) and Boom Clap Play. View event
Exhibition
Screenings @ DAS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with Digital Arts Studios to present an exhibition screening of engaging new audiovisual works by international artists. View event
Exhibition
Sound Installations @ SARC
During Sonorities, a handful of exhibitions and installations will be dotted around the festival hub, the SARC building. View event
Exhibition
This Street is a Song
Sonorities partner with Flax Artist Studios to host the ‘This Street is a Song’ exhibition at their shop-window gallery, Threshold. View event
Mon 8th April 2024
Performance
Blown Off Course
Blown off Course An Opera by Pedro Rebelo With Libretto by Glenn Patterson Performed by Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble View event
Tue 9th April 2024
Exhibition
Holonic Fields
Holonic Fields is a collaboration between Northern Irish composer Rory Friers (ASIWYFA) and Boom Clap Play. View event
Exhibition
Screenings @ DAS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with Digital Arts Studios to present an exhibition screening of engaging new audiovisual works by international artists. View event
Exhibition
Sound Installations @ SARC
During Sonorities, a handful of exhibitions and installations will be dotted around the festival hub, the SARC building. View event
Exhibition
Sound Space Environment group exhibition @ QSS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with QSS Gallery and Studios to host a group exhibition from SARC’s Sound Space Environment Research Group. View event
Exhibition
This Street is a Song
Sonorities partner with Flax Artist Studios to host the ‘This Street is a Song’ exhibition at their shop-window gallery, Threshold. View event
Sound Walk
The Spontaneous Footsteps Choir
A forest walk with sound, dance and music Created by Tom Hughes in collaboration with dancer Maeve McGreevy and musician Paul Fox This project was developed with the support of the Ambulatory Arts development grant from Dumbworld, and first performed... View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 1
Repeated Daily – Check Here for Times. In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found... View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 2
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Talk
Symposium Session 1
Chaired by Franziska Schroeder Megan Steinberg – Ableism in Artificial Intelligence: By Human Design George Edmondson – Sonic Narratives: Sound Recording as an Improvisational Medium for Documenting Lived Experience Dafydd Hall Williams – An International Partnership Around the Creation of... View event
Performance
Holonic Fields Launch Party Performances
We celebrate the launch of the Holonic Fields interactive installation at Portview Trade Centre with an evening of live performances by international artists, alongside opportunities to experience Holonic Fields. View event
Wed 10th April 2024
Exhibition
Holonic Fields
Holonic Fields is a collaboration between Northern Irish composer Rory Friers (ASIWYFA) and Boom Clap Play. View event
Exhibition
Screenings @ DAS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with Digital Arts Studios to present an exhibition screening of engaging new audiovisual works by international artists. View event
Exhibition
Sound Installations @ SARC
During Sonorities, a handful of exhibitions and installations will be dotted around the festival hub, the SARC building. View event
Exhibition
Sound Space Environment group exhibition @ QSS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with QSS Gallery and Studios to host a group exhibition from SARC’s Sound Space Environment Research Group. View event
Exhibition
This Street is a Song
Sonorities partner with Flax Artist Studios to host the ‘This Street is a Song’ exhibition at their shop-window gallery, Threshold. View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 2
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Sound Walk
Walk the Westlink
‘Walk the Westlink’ traverses one of Belfast’s notorious ring-roads and acts as a mobile forum for discussion, activism, imagination and creative interaction. View event
Talk
Bridget Cunningham Workshop
Harpsichordist and artistic director of London Early Opera Bridget Cunningham will be leading a workshop with year 3 Music students at Queen’s in preparation for their production of Handel’s Theodora. View event
Talk
Bridget Cunningham Seminar
Musicologist Bridget Cunningham, Artistic Director of British period orchestra and research group London Early Opera, will speak on the subject ‘Staging Handel’s Operas’. Her presentation will provide insight into the spectacle of Handel’s Operas and how they were received in... View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 1
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Talk
Symposium Session 2
Chaired by Matthew Rodger Kasey Pocius, Tommy Davis and Vincent Cusson – eTu{d,b}e: Exploring musical agents through improvisations with an infra-instrument Nicholas Kirk-Canny – The Utilisation of the Hybrid/Augmented Guitar for Human-Computer Improvisation Berk Yagli – Zen of Aggression: Composing... View event
Performance
Jennifer Walshe, Panos Ghikas and Wobbly
Panos Ghikas, Wobbly (Jon Leidecker) and Jennifer Walshe join forces for a performance in two halves. In the first half, the trio explore the outer limits of digital sound, text and time, cybernauts journeying through a landscape scattered with defunct... View event
Performance
A Laugh to Cry Opera by Miguel Azguime
DIVE INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMANITY WITH ‘A LAUGH TO CRY.’ NEW OP-ERA Dive into the depths of humanity with ‘A Laugh to Cry.’ A Laugh to Cry is a scream for freedom against tyranny, against the omnipresence of arrogance... View event
Thur 11th April 2024
Exhibition
Holonic Fields
Holonic Fields is a collaboration between Northern Irish composer Rory Friers (ASIWYFA) and Boom Clap Play. View event
Exhibition
Screenings @ DAS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with Digital Arts Studios to present an exhibition screening of engaging new audiovisual works by international artists. View event
Exhibition
Sound Installations @ SARC
During Sonorities, a handful of exhibitions and installations will be dotted around the festival hub, the SARC building. View event
Exhibition
Sound Space Environment group exhibition @ QSS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with QSS Gallery and Studios to host a group exhibition from SARC’s Sound Space Environment Research Group. View event
Exhibition
This Street is a Song
Sonorities partner with Flax Artist Studios to host the ‘This Street is a Song’ exhibition at their shop-window gallery, Threshold. View event
Sound Walk
A little bird told me
This soundwalk in the Belfast’s Botanic Gardens explores human relationship to wildlife in this close urban setting through sound and performance. View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 1
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Performance
Eonta - CANCELLED
Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control this event has been cancelled. Cansu Tanrikulu: voice Carol McGonnell: clarinet Eonta are two creatives who combine their experience from two different worlds of music as improvising composer-performers with a... View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 2
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Talk
20 Years of SARC - Talks
Twenty years ago composer Karlheinz Stockhausen officially opened the SARC building on the occasion of being awarded a honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast. Stockhausen’s ideas on immersive sound were key influences for the design of the Sonic Lab, the... View event
Featuring
Performance
20 Years of SARC - Concert
Twenty years ago composer Karlheinz Stockhausen officially opened the SARC building on the occasion of being awarded a honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast. Stockhausen’s ideas on immersive sound were key influences for the design of the Sonic Lab, the... View event
Performance
SARC x 20 and Thrice Removed
SARC x 20 Pedro Rebelo and Frank Delaney Celebrating twenty years since the inauguration of the SARC building by Karlheinz Stockhausen this is a multiscreen immersive audio experience drawing on the SARC archive. Reflecting research projects, public engagement activities, participatory... View event
Performance
Shiva Feshareki
Shiva Feshareki: LIQUID ZIGGURAT (work in progress) with support by Rule Driven (John Macormac & Robin Price) Shiva will present a live ambisonic turntable composition that she creates live in the moment in direct response to the energies in the... View event
Fri 12th April 2024
Exhibition
Holonic Fields
Holonic Fields is a collaboration between Northern Irish composer Rory Friers (ASIWYFA) and Boom Clap Play. View event
Exhibition
Screenings @ DAS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with Digital Arts Studios to present an exhibition screening of engaging new audiovisual works by international artists. View event
Exhibition
Sound Installations @ SARC
During Sonorities, a handful of exhibitions and installations will be dotted around the festival hub, the SARC building. View event
Exhibition
This Street is a Song
Sonorities partner with Flax Artist Studios to host the ‘This Street is a Song’ exhibition at their shop-window gallery, Threshold. View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 2
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Sound Walk
Here, Now, There, and Then
Meeting point – SARC Foyer A hybrid journey through the most and least immediate soundscapes, ‘Here, Now, There, and Then’ is an immersive soundwalk connecting the present with temporally and geographically distant soundscapes. Experience a hybrid composition organically evolving... View event
Performance
Early Music Concert
Programme: Ensemble Mosatrïc perform ‘Resonance of Renaissance’ Resonant Bodies features Zebedee Budworth on hammered dulcimer + electronics and Rob Bentall on nyckelharpa + electronics ‘The Era of Elegance’ with mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty and Bridget Cunningham on harpsichord Ed Williams and... View event
Talk
Symposium Session 3
Chaired by Simon Waters Eric Lewis – A (micro) Chip Off the Old Block–Emergent Minds in Human/Computer Interactions Landon Morrison – Improvising Intra-actions in the Design and Use of Digital Musical Instruments: A Partial Perspective Matthew Rodger & Bonnie Smith... View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 1
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Performance
Spheric Totemic
Spheric Totemic fuses influences from DJ Premier, Konono No.1 and the UK free improv scene. Featuring: Alexander Hawkins (keys) Neil Charles (bass) Mandhira de Saram (violin) Stephen Davis (drums) Matt Wright (compositions and electronics) View event
Performance
Handmade Music
Handmade Music returns to Sonorities with a special extended edition. A big element of Handmade Music is about community and space for experimental and improvised music to exist…and seeing what comes out the other side! The night is a place... View event
Sat 13th April 2024
Exhibition
Holonic Fields
Holonic Fields is a collaboration between Northern Irish composer Rory Friers (ASIWYFA) and Boom Clap Play. View event
Exhibition
Screenings @ DAS
Sonorities is delighted to partner with Digital Arts Studios to present an exhibition screening of engaging new audiovisual works by international artists. View event
Exhibition
Sound Installations @ SARC
During Sonorities, a handful of exhibitions and installations will be dotted around the festival hub, the SARC building. View event
Exhibition
This Street is a Song
Sonorities partner with Flax Artist Studios to host the ‘This Street is a Song’ exhibition at their shop-window gallery, Threshold. View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 2
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Sound Walk
Inaudible Cities
Based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this soundwalk takes participants on an exploration for the resonance signatures of the city around them. View event
Performance
No Hevdem
This event will feature performances and fixed-media works developed through remote asynchronous collaborations. Conversations were had, sites explored, dreams reoccurred, non-migratory birds recruited, a shared archive was made, and the theatre on the other side of town is on fire.... View event
Exhibition
Listening Room Programme 1
In our two Listening Rooms, more than 30 fixed-media works are presented simultaneously, playing back over a 9.1.4 (Listening Room 1) or 8-channel (Listening Room 2) speaker configuration. The Listening Rooms are found in the lower ground floor surround studios... View event
Performance
Double Bill: Max Eilbacher / Lee + Waters + McCoubrey trio
Max Eilbacher PLUS (Axis of Distance). A new piece that utilizes a technique of sound synthesis he has been developing over the past year. An abstract method for aurally describing geometric ellipses yielding. Painting the unplaced room of the... View event
Talk
John Bowers and Lucy Suchman (Keynote)
Sonorities Symposium keynote session featuring John Bowers and Lucy Suchman, chaired by Paul Stapleton View event
Performance
Horse Lords
Expect an instrumental odyssey from Baltimore quartet Horse Lords: drums, bass, sax, guitar, and percussion fuse together to carve out deep, hypnotic grooves of bold new American rock and roll. Using a just intonation tuning system, the band constructs layers... View event