Research activities

Talks and Workshops

Workshops, talks and masterclasses focused on the art and technologies of spatial sound

IKO Loudspeaker Workshop @ Everyday is Spatial

Date: 16 June 2023

Time: 10.30am – 11.30am

Venue: TC007, University of Gloucestershire

A workshop demonstrating the capabilities of the IKO loudspeaker, answering questions and also hearing from others about how they might use this loudspeaker within their creative practice.


IKO Loudspeaker @ MESH Live

Date: 13 May 2023

Time: 1.30-4.30pm

Venue: Stone Nest, Soho

This intimate event will bring together perspectives from music, technology and research in a unique, friendly and interactive community event to explore the frontiers and foundations of the spatial sound creative experience.

Dr Angela McArthur and Dr Emma Margetson deliver an IKO workshop: “Instrumentalising Spaces – The Immersive IKO Loudspeaker


Spatiality in the Audiovisual Research Development Network

Research Networking & Development events bring together early career researchers and emerging scholars to share disciplinary perspectives on spatiality, stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration and seek to foster new research agendas on spatiality and practice in the audiovisual.

Events: Saturday 5 March 2022 and Saturday 4 June 2022, University of Greenwich


Noise Colloquium

This is a two-day colloquium which explores noise as a concept that embraces the expressive, the idea of noise as a resistance and, through mutating repetition, a catalyst for creative production.

From this perspective noise moves out of the solely auditory register into a multi-sensory realm of non-representational logic