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
Rrose
Rrose will perform a concert of music developed specially for the Sonic Lab at SARC.
Performance
Immersive Concert 1
The programming for the two Sonic Lab Immersive concerts reflects recent upgrades to the Lab’s spatial system. Nine pieces are programmed across two concerts, including multichannel fixed media, live electronics and mixed instrumental and electronic works featuring Kyle Hutchins and...
Performance
Climate | Sound | Action 1
For the Climate | Sound | Action series co-produced by Sonorities and Reach’26 Arts and Sustainability Festival, we have programmed works that explore or respond to environmental challenges, align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or propose new, sustainable approaches...
Performance
Immersive Concert 2
The programming for the two Sonic Lab Immersive concerts reflects recent upgrades to the Lab’s spatial system. Nine pieces are programmed across two concerts, including multichannel fixed media, live electronics and mixed instrumental and electronic works. All works are adapted...
Performance
Robocobra Quartet
Robocobra Quartet are a musical collective from Ireland. Formed at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, they blend art-rock, improvisation and spoken word to create a concoction that has brought them to Montreux Jazz Festival, Glastonbury and as far...
Performance
Ghost Trance Music
This concert and tribute to Anthony Braxton features graphic scores, also including those by Sarah Watts and Ioana Petcu Colan, based on her artwork ‘Kanon à 4’, created from previously-played violin bow hair, on a quadriptych of prepared panels to...
Performance
Adam Pultz Melbye + Sabine Vogel
Adam Pultz Melbye: On the Learning of Parrots and Humans The Spectral Parrot is a self-(de/re)tuning string instrument that uses machine learning to mimic to its sonic environment. In this performance, Adam Pultz—double bass player and creator of the Spectral...