Session 1

10.30 – 11.30 Staff Research Projects TC202

• Abigail Gardner – SAGE Project

• Gary-Martin Rolinson – Expression Orchestra

• Tim Land – Dancefloor Spatialisation

Session 2

11.30 – 12.30 Student Work Playback TC202

• Selection of UG & PG work from 2024

Session 3

14.30 – 16.30 Public Concert TC202/ TC006

Guests LOSS GAIN present:

• Public Service Broadcasting ‘This New Noise’

Stroud-based spatial sound design curators LOSS GAIN present their 360 rendering of the BBC-commissioned Public Broadcast Service ‘This New Noise’. The mixed symphonic and electronics work was recorded at the PROMS 2022 to celebrate 100 years of the BBC. Now rendered into spatial audio you can experience the full spectrum of the recording and immersive re-interpretation.

Live Spatial Performances from:

• Tim Johnston ft. Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron

Tonal Atmospheres is a set of musical variations, based upon three folk tunes collected within Gloucestershire in the early 20th century: ‘Highland Mary’, ‘Gloucester Hornpipe’, and ‘Polly Put the Kettle On’. However, rather than stating a complete version of the tunes, the component melodic characteristics are liquidated into rhythmically free clouds of sound, swirled around and above the performance space. Interspersed between these is a repeating original main theme, emphasising the progressively evolving tonal centres of each section of the piece. These progressively modulating keys are caught up by tuned convolution resonances positioned across the 3D space adding a physical location to the sense of harmonic space in the music. 

• Dan Stern

Difference Machine is a live performance by Dan Stern, blending saxophone, clarinet, keyboard, percussion, and algorithms in polyphonic improvisation.  Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of difference and repetition, the performance sets up encounters with sonic time and space as sites of transformation. Rhizomatic structures enfold change in all directions, prompting a question in sound: whom do you hear?

• Ben Hamid & Jon Gordon

Swarm is a collaborative live performance from Ben Hamid and Jon Gordon, the duo explore granular time based processing and spatialisation with instrumentation using Soma Labs’ Terra Microtonal synthesiser, COSMOS memory station looper and Ableton live. The collaboration mixes improvised performance with compositional material and textures exploring veins of ambient electronic music diffused into an immersive listening experience.

Session 4

16.30 – 17.00 SoC collaboration discussion TC006

SoC and wider staff are invited to discuss projects and the use of resources.