Talk on new technologies for spatial audio production
Sinan Bokesoy (Founder of sonicLAB and sonicPlanet)
6 pm

An introduction to how new software and creative tools are transforming the way immersive sound is composed, opening up new possibilities for spatial audio practice.

Live sound performance
TYRYX by Florence To (Hong Kong diasporic artist)
7 pm

About the artist and performance

TYRYX is an exploratory sonic project by Florence To, an artist and researcher of Hong Kong diasporic heritage. Their transdisciplinary practice develops acoustic scenography, producing light and sound installations that investigate and reconfigure architectural environments through multisensory arrangements. To’s work examines psychological triggers and the physical and perceptual properties of frequency as vibration. The live performance engages with built environments and social soundscapes, presenting new material developed through recent fieldwork. It incorporates recordings of sonic conditions structuring multispecies environments through grey-zone technologies that question the ecologies of disappearance, together with a psychoacoustic installation featuring a mechanised sound sculpture modelled on the physiology of the avian syrinx, controlled live through patch-based synthesis.

They have held residencies and commissions with Mass MoCA in Massachusetts, EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre) in New York, Wonder Cabinet in Palestine, and the Spatialization and Auditory Display Environment (SpADE) in Limerick. In 2019, they worked with the photonics group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, exploring light detection, generation, and manipulation, and how wavelength propagation shapes perceptual processes. Informed by visual and acoustic ecology and phenomenology, their work positions listening as a method for engaging with and understanding the environments we inhabit. Their practice breaks down barriers between artistic disciplines and cultivates multidimensional exchanges across creative practices.

Audience target/s
Everyone, musicians, audiovisual artists, sound engineers, producers, sound designers, and Asian communities

Tickets
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Free for carers

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Architectures of Sound is part of NOMADIK: 3D Sound Week in Leeds