Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Sound, Voice, and Music

VENUE: Faculty of Arts Building (FAB), 6.02

Working Group Session 1

Wednesday, 27th August, 13.00-15.00

Voicing Space, Place and Borders 

Chair: Maria Kapsali

Ben Macpherson The build and the blur: A cappella voice as sonic interface in music(al) theatre.

Olivia Lamont Bishop Sonic Borders: Sound as an Interface for Migration in Performance.

Ximena Alarcón Díaz INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening (listening for place and tele-presence).

Luka Douridas Interfacing the Analog: Emulation, Authenticity, and the Digital Mediation of Sound.

Danny Scott Trans*auditioning voice: The pitch-shifter as an inter-facing and trans-facing technology in Wet Mess’ TESTO.


Working Group Session 2

Thursday, 28th August, 09.00-10.30

 Voicing Histories 

Chair: Henry McPherson

Hippolyte Broud The Sonic Interface: Reimagining Vocal Training Through Archival Imprints.

Kate Holden FEMME VOCAL GHOSTING: Queering Roy Hart Voice Work in Performance Practice Research.

Andrew Lennon ‘Filling the Silence’ – Documentary Practices and Musicals.


Working Group Session 3

Thursday, 28th August, 15.30-17.00

Sounding Bodies 

Chair: Melinda Szűts

G Douglas Barrett [online] Laetitia Sonami’s Lady’s Glove and the Hand as Digital Interface.

Catherine Laws Touch Transmission (or: what and who are we touching when playing the piano?). (N.B. This is co-authored work between Catherine Laws and Teresa Brayshaw).

Maria Kapsali Kinesonic Embodiment: a common ground for interfaces for sound and movement interaction?


Working Group Session 4

Friday, 29th August, 13.00-15.00

Sounding Culture and the Social 

Chair: Henry McPherson

Roxanne Korda and Daniel Blanco Albert [shut] for business: Performing Transience in a Bankrupt City.

Shezad Khalil Stepping Forward: The Representation of the Female Vernacular through the Qawwali Dialogue.

Thom Andrewes Singing "Happy Birthday to You".

Let us know you agree to cookies