Wed 15th April 2026
Talk
Symposium Session 1
This session will include three presentations, followed by time for discussion. Erin Demastes – Found Objects, Play, & Creativity Gerard Ryan – Improvising Without Outcome: Listening to the Infrastructure of Consumption Cameron Clarke – Lead by Landscape
Sound Walk
The Lagan Towpath Soundwalk
Meet outside Cutters Wharf. Transport will be provided for return journey to SARC. Please bring headphones and a smartphone to the walk. In advance of the please download the Echoes spatial audio app. Parts of this walk will feature audio...
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...
Talk
Symposium Session 2
This session will include four presentations, followed by time for discussion. Rachel Austin – Feeding Uncertainty and Finding Community in rural Southern USA Emiddio Vasquez – Can the Subaltern even Listen? Mervyn Horgan – Dwelling Differently: Improvisatory Infrastructures in Public...
Exhibition
SARC Mobile - Georgios Varoutsos
Meet at Buoy Park, BT3 9FG. A bespoke field work vehicle for specialised multichannel audio-visual experiences, recording and broadcast, this unique facility combine professional multichannel HD audio-visual capturing and streaming equipment as well as an immersive playback system allowing for...
Performance
Rrose
Rrose will perform a concert of music developed specially for the Sonic Lab at SARC.
Performance
Adjunct Ensemble + Bill Orcutt
Adjunct Ensemble Composer and producer Jamie Thompson‘s Adjunct Ensemble is a band with two critically acclaimed releases to its name; 2023’s ‘Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy’ (Diatribe Records), a hugely expansive anti-opera of jazz-punk, turntablism, spoken word, and glitching electronics;...