Programme
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Throughout 9th-11th October 2025
Days 1, 2 & 3
10:30am-6pm
Kamila Narysheva & Vicky Clarke
T1/2 (Half Life)
[Installation]10:30am-6pm
Spatial Audio listening room delivered on Bernard Steer’s Microcosm System.
Artists on playback in rotation include:
Brona Martin, Text-Sound-Art, Miko Tchórzewski, Marcus Decker, Bernard Kelly, Hayley Suviste, Totaleee, Horse Lords, Nye Parry, Cameron Naylor, Arconic Sound, Scald, Jose Macabra, Mick Harris
[Spatial Audio]
Fri & Saturday only
10:30am-6pm
Wajid Yaseen
Seven Sisters
[Participatory Installation] -
Friday 9th October 2026
Day 1
12:30pm–1:30pm
Foley Nights
Participatory Foley
[Workshop]2:30pm–4pm
Markus Hetheier
Queer Sonic Geographies MCR [Soundwalk]4:30pm–5:30pm
Hannah Kemp-Welch
Listening Glossary
[Talk]6pm–7pm
Robin the Fog
Howlround
[Performance]7:15pm–8:15pm
Mark Wagner
Cymatics & The Mysticism of Sound
[Participatory Talk]9pm–10pm
Nik Colk Void
[Performance] -
Saturday 10th October 2026
Day 2
11am–4pm
Dorkbot MCR
Paul Lavigne-KMR
Cristiana Palandri
[Participatory]11am–12pm
Matt Barnard
Capturing, Playing, Replaying Space
[Talk]12pm–1:30pm
Hayley Suviste & Ryan Woods
The Manchester Ear
[Soundwalk]2pm–3pm
SignKid
[Performance/Signed BSL Talk]4pm–5pm
Rubbish Music
[Kate Carr & Iain Chambers]
[Participatory Performance]5:30pm–6:30pm
Lee Patterson
[Performance]7:30pm–8:30pm
Francisco López
Absolute Sonic Creatures
[Performance] -
Sunday 11th October 2026
Day 3
11am–12pm
Jez riley French
Choreographies of Perception
[Talk]12:30pm–2pm
Maya Chowdhry
Sonic Shadows
[Soundwalk]1pm–2pm
Lola de la Mata
TAC(I)ET: and implied silence
[Performance/Talk]2:30pm–4pm
Kamila Narysheva & Vicky Clarke
T1/2 Artist talk + Archives + nuclear film screening
[Talk]4:30pm–5:30pm
Emma Margetson
IKO loudspeaker
[Performance/Talk]5:45pm–6:45pm
Ryoko Akama
shimatsu (始末)
[Performance]7pm–8pm
WEȽ∝KER
[Performance]
Events
Emma Margetson: Diffuse Architectures - Sound, Space, and the IKO loudspeaker
The IKO, a twenty-faced loudspeaker system, is treated not as a sound source but as a spatial instrument, inseparable from its surroundings. This practical demonstration activates the IKO in the space itself, showing how sound can shape, inhabit and reconfigure the rooms around us.
Lola De La Mata: TAC(I)ET: and implied silence
Taking the ear as an actively anarchic being, in the case of her left ear which holds chronic tinnitus, Lola de la Mata shows how collaborating with her hearing difference led to new approaches in instrument design and embodied performance. Performances with the acoustic Tacet Friction Harp approach hearing through visual and tactile means as well as vibrating air.
Wajid Yaseen: Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters is a participatory sound installation incorporating vintage test tone wide range oscillators to be adjusted and manipulated by audience to create square and sine wave crossings. The installation is an act of listening effectively activated by the listener as they move around it.
Kamila Narysheva & Vicky Clarke: T1/2 (Half-Life)
T1/2 is a sound installation built from field recordings of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in eastern Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union conducted over 450 nuclear tests between 1949 and 1989. Captured with hydrophones, geophones and contact microphones, the recordings decay in time with the half-lives of radionuclides still present in the ground.