Students on the MA in Audiovisual Cultures perform their installations and showcase film work for their final major project.
Performances from 12noon by:
12pm Angie Piazza in the EMS installation room
Sound & Vision
Sound & Vision is an exhibition that explores the intertwine of sonic temporality and static visuality through the realms of music photography and album covers.
Instagram: @mistyday6
1pm Phoebe Ngozi in RHB 167
Songs In the Key of Us
A tech-infused, audiovisual, vocal performance reforming the commodification of the Black Femme in music performance. Song, sight, and the refusal of spectacle.
Instagram: @phoebenadorp
2pm Xinqiao Li in RHB 153 (EMS)
Toilet
The art gallery is a weapon of control. It's a sterile, white, silent institution designed to make you forget you have a body—a body that sweats, digests, and shits. It teaches you to be clean, quiet, and obedient. We are here to begin your de-conditioning. Welcome to my 7.1.4 surround-sound indoctrination chamber. In this hall of perfect audio, we have composed a symphony for the guts: a thunderous, hyper-realistic orchestra of explosive bowel movements, roaring farts, and piss hitting porcelain.
Instagram: @xinqiaoli0
3pm Jisu Jeong on prepared piano in The Great Hall
Sonarium: London / Lacan / Liminality
Sonarium, from sonus (sound) and -arium (a place that holds), means “a garden of sound” or “a space containing sound.” This project is presented as an audiovisual installation in the form of a listening workshop, combining 4-channel spatial audio sourced from soundwalks in London with an exploration of resonance through the medium of the piano.
Presented through sound-reactive video, performance, and sound installation, the project comprises three parts of equal length, inspired by Lacan’s three orders: the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real. In experiencing the liminality between self and other, society and the individual, sound and silence, attention and release, the audience will experience a space where the noises of everyday life are transformed, colliding, overlapping, and re-creating.
In the Anthropocene, we are constantly exposed to sounds that we cannot choose, and we can no longer hear them. Within this project, by walking among the speakers, moving between them, watching and listening, participants can explore what, how, and why they hear, and how their sensory experience differs from that of others. Each participant traces their own path through the space, forming a distinctive sensory encounter that, together with others, constitutes the work itself.
Jisu Jeong is a composer, singer-songwriter, and producer based in Seoul and London. Her work explores the relationship between human psychology and emotion, drawing on a foundation in classical music while moving fluidly across genres and techniques. She has developed a diverse portfolio as a music director, game composer, pianist, recording engineer, and guest vocalist, reflecting a multi-layered approach to contemporary music-making and a commitment to collaborative, experimental practice.
Instagram: @jisusaysyay
4pm Evan O'Donnell in RHB 167
A Body Knows the Pattern
A Body Knows the Pattern debuts a custom performance system using gesture sensors and machine learning to explore embodied rhythm and texture within electronic music. Muscle tension and illustrative movements sculpt, stretch and trigger percussive phrases and field recordings, while also shaping and responding to a machine learning model trained on the performer’s movement language. The relationship between artist and technology serves as a metaphor and mediator for the tension, surrender, listening, and balance between person and lived environment, exploring the permeability between embodied expression and the patterns of our surroundings.
Evan O'Donnell is a NYC-native composer, performer and researcher investigating gesture, expressive timing, and embodied interaction within electronic and experimental music practice. Recent work explores the translation of physical movement to rhythmic phrase and the transposition of captured improvisations across digital mediums and genres. Previous compositions include collaborations with Balinese gamelan ensembles along with noise and electronics.
Instagram: @evvvv_od
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/evan_o
6pm Lily Pietersen in RHB Cinema
Dreaming, Ending, Changing
Filmed over the course of one year, this piece follows F*Choir, a London-based queer choir, as they use song to build community, grieve, protest and express identity.
PureGold: our annual festival of eclectic, innovative and exciting work coming out of the Department of Music.
Events are free and open to all
Image: Evan O’Donnell and Lily Pietersen