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
Participatory Strand, featuring Dorkbot MCR/Paul Lavigne-KMR/Cristiana Palandri
Dorkbot is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term).
Foley Nights
Make live foley in response to film clips, creating your own sound effects from pebbles, plastic sheets, sticks, hot water bottles and even celery, all amplified through specialist microphones. Watch a clip, choose your materials and have a go — the event flips the usual relationship between what you see and what you hear.