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'Within the array of sounding devices that have been deployed in the making of sound art, the speaker has a special status. Although not ubiquitous, the extent of the speaker’s... more

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art is a collection of new essays by artists and thinkers exploring the uses of sound in contemporary arts practice. Between them these chapters bring... more

The World Documentary Film & TV Conference aims to bring together international scholars and film practitioners, to contribute to world cinema documentary studies and to film theory/practice debate. It seeks... more

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The film is being shown at the Peninsula Art Gallery, University of Plymouth from 27 April 2013 to 31 May 2013. Set in the hills of the Sunset Strip, Chez Paulette,... more

Liminal were commissioned in August 2012, by Tribal DDB London, to work with them on the sound design for their innovative Guinness Community Map for the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.... more

Humbly Through The Dust is a unique exhibition inspired by The British Council Collection and curated especially for County Fermanagh by artist and resident Dr. Helen Sharp, who lives and... more

Happy Days is the world’s first annual festival to celebrate the work and influence of Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett. Dark At Its Full – An Evening of Music and... more

Following the successful launch of his Mobile Sinfonia project in March, artist and composer Jem Finer discusses his work at the Arnolfini, with leading composer and sound artist, David Prior.... more

As an interdisciplinary approach to exploring through practice ‘lyric’s relationship to music … and performance’, this collaborative proposal responds to the last sentence in the narrative of the call for... more

Written for the Netherland’s Lunapark Ensemble, Hemlock by David Prior was premiered at the Concert Gebouw, Amsterdam on January 16th 2012 as part of Lunapark’s Satie Series. The second performance... more

Concentrating on sounds with a high degree of micro complexity but macro level stasis, David eschews all sense of 'development' as such and instead concentrates on using essentially unedited field... more

“One might be tempted to use terms like ‘post-pop’, ‘art-pop’, ‘avant-pop’, ‘alt-pop’, ‘ambient-pop’, ‘experimental’ or ‘alternative’, and to cite the influence of artists such as Laurie Anderson, David Sylvian, and... more