Greenwich’s Sound and Music team have had a busy start to the 2023 academic year.
Staff from Greenwich’s Sound and Music team in the School of Stage and Screen have been busy in recent months, from an album launch to public concerts. In addition, the team have worked to ensure that Greenwich’s Sound and Music students have had the chance to open their ears to a diversity of sonic practices and experiences by inviting a variety of guest practitioners to visit the campus.
Staff news
- Dr Amit Dinesh Patel, Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound - aka experimental noise and sound artist ‘Dushume’ - has been making (sound)waves in recent months following the well-received July release of his album "Disruptive Frequencies", part of a larger research project. Various London audiences have been treated to Amit's work with the most recent concert being the album’s Vinyl Launch at Kings Place in July. The Wire Magazine - the UK's leading experimental music publication - gave the album an effusive review. The work has received positive reviews and coverage in a range of other publications and outlets, including internationally in MixMag Asia.
- Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound, Dr Emma Margetson, visited MONOM in October. MONOM is Berlin's Centre for Spatial Sound and is home to one of the world's most advanced spatial sound instruments built by 4DSOUND. During the visit, Emma discussed possible collaborations for research. Watch this space!
- Dr Brona Martin - Lecturer in Music and Sound - took Greenwich’s IKO speaker to Bath for a special concert by Chris Cundy at the city’s Roman Baths last month. Taking place in a stunning setting, the concert was a great example of the Greenwich team’s aim to deliver impactful public events.
- Professor Andrew Knight-Hill - Associate Head of the School of Stage and Screen and creator of Greenwich’s Sound/Image Festival - gave a guest lecture on sound and the moving image to the University of Cambridge’s music department in late October. Andrew talked about his work and the audience were treated to a concert which included works from Greenwich’s Sound/Image Research Centre.
Major research project launches
- Greenwich is involved in an exciting new project - ‘The Record Store & Black Music, a UK History’ - exploring the cultural impact, from the 1950s, of UK independent record stores which specialised in Black Music. An organisation called 2Funky Arts was awarded a grant for the project from the National Lottery Heritage Fund earlier this year - Greenwich’s Sound/Image Centre is to lead, with Dr Amit Dinesh Patel and Dr Brona Martin as key contacts, the London and the Southeast region element of this fascinating project which will link with Black History Month 2024. Find out more here.
Students hear from artists
Greenwich’s Music and Sound students have had some great opportunities to hear from a range of sound artists who’ve visited the University this year:
- Lucia H Chung, a London-based Taiwanese artist performing and releasing music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound springs from her fascinations in noise generated via a no-input feedback mixing-board. Lucia spoke to MA Music and Sound Design students and PhD researchers about her research and its evolution from fine art to working with sounds. Lucia also gave a performance and students had the chance to try her set up.
- Aniruddha Das - an electronic musician engaged in disruption at the interface of bass music and experimental noise who works under the name ‘Dhangsha’ - spoke to MA Music and Sound and PhD students. His talk - about his research and practice gave an insight into how his system is configured for live electronic music - evolved into a live performance!
- Gary Stewart is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, moving image and computation creativity. Gary talked to postgraduate Music and Sound students about his practice and gave a demonstration as part of his artist moniker ‘Bantu’.
To find out more about undergraduate and postgraduate Music and Sound courses at Greenwich, click here. To discover more about the work of the Sound/Image Research Centre, click here.
