Commissions
14 April 2012
Sound and Music and Entr’acte present a special concert to celebrate the launch of Helena Gough’s new CD release, created following a Sound and Music supported residency at EMS in Stockholm.
19 - 22 November 2011
Sound and Music is a partner in the world premieres of major works by Richard Barrett and Zbigniew Karkowski at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
10th - 29th October 2011
Sound and Music commissions a sound installation by Iain Armstrong to be staged as part of this epic event celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible.
Saturday 3 September 2011
An epic two-part event featuring an international cast of artists, critics and composers brought together in a celebration of the music and sound design of the horror film.
2010
A poetic portrait of Gerald Wells, founder and curator of the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum. The film reveals the charm of Wells’ world, where radio relics and their attendant stories fill every nook and cranny of his Kingdom.
14 – 17 July 2011
A site-specific public sound installation created by sound artist Scanner, which will be presented on the award-winning ARUP-designed Kingsgate footbridge in Durham, 14 - 17 July
July - November 2011
SAM is collaborating with the legendary EMS studios in Stockholm in the creation of two new works for cello and electronics.
2011 - 2012
Embedded, Sound and Music’s new artist development programme, partners a selection of ambitious artists with pioneering arts organisations in the UK. Check out the current open calls.
24-25 March 2011
Two nights presenting two disparate figures from the French experimental music tradition of musique concrète: One featuring musical outsider Ghédalia Tazartès and the theoretician, producer and musician Michel Chion.
11 February - 5 March 2011
An exhibition by the late German sound artist Rolf Julius and Japanese artist Miki Yui.
9-10 April 2011
Two super-rare London shows with the legendary Tokyo noise musician Keiji Haino.
20 new works celebrate the talent and imagination of UK’s musical community as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
January - April 2011
Commissioning project providing grass-roots event organisers with the resource and opportunity to produce bold new programming for London's premier music venue for adventurous music, Cafe Oto
To celebrate the ongoing story of British electronic music over the last 5 decades, SAM, together with British Underground and Vinyl Factory, commissioned a limited edition essay and 7” single
Saturday 29 May – Sunday 5 September 2010
Chris Watson extraordinary sound installation that immerses visitors to Kew Gardens’ Palm House in the dawn and dusk choruses of the Central and South American rainforests.
McKenzie is a new work by Paul Rooney inspired by local Liverpool legend William McKenzie; a gambler who is said to have made a pact with the devil to ensure a winning hand in a poker game.
Thursday 15 April - Monday 31 May 2010
One of the world's leading sound artists presents a major public installation at Somerset House exploring the hidden sound worlds of the River Thames.
Friday 25 - Tuesday 29 September 2009
Tom Betts' interactive sound piece commissioned for Millennium Square's BBC Big Screen in Leeds.
A laser-triggered, computer-controlled, light-sequenced emulation of a traditional English church bell tower
Part academic lecture, part science-fiction story, Paul Rooney excavates real and imagined histories trapped inside Leeds Metropolitan University’s H Building as it faces demolition
25 – 28 September 2009
An Electromagnetic Induction site-specific installation for Leeds' main shopping centre, The Light