Karina Townsend
Events
Performance
ADrift
ADrift is an audio-visual, environmental sound art performance. It features a long-form, site-specific, livestreamed, sub-aquatic audio broadcast using hydrophones deployed from an open canoe drifting down the River Lagan through Belfast. This live soundtrack will provide the underscore for a...
Performance
Handmade Music
Handmade Music at Accidental Theatre returns to Sonorities with a special extended edition, featuring a roving sound installation and ten live acts, headlined by nomadic father/daughter duo Yeah You (aka Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi). A big element of Handmade...
BIO
Karina Townsend (creative technologist, intrepid sonic adventurer) presents ADrift, an audiovisual narrative composition created by drifting with rivers in a kayak armed with hydrophones, headphones and transmitter.
Both ‘Embodied Therapy’ and meditative ‘Deep Listening’, her practice explores acquired hearing loss through the lens of multisensory synchresis. Karina works with materials from conventional recording tools to sound making devices improvised from life’s offcuts. The work focuses on technology based creative strategies that allow Karina to fully and actively engage with her environment in rich, meaningful ways raising the question of why we talk of ‘hearing loss’ but not ‘listening loss’.
