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Sonic Arts Network enables people to engage with the art of sound in ground breaking, exciting and innovative ways.
Happy Birthday to Us - We're 30!
Thirty years ago today (29th January) Sonic Arts Network, or EMAS as it was then called was founded in the front room of Simon Emmerson's house in West London. To celebrate, we created a special edition of our members eNewsletter with the header, footer and introduction from the very first EMAS newsletter which was put together by typewriter, glue and cellotape, photocopied and sent to members.
InsideOut: A New CD curated by Andrew Kötting
InsideOut: a psyche and its geography charts the inscape of one of Britain’s most celebrated artists and experimental film makers, Andrew Kötting. This CD and accompanying publication mirrors the ‘highly idiosyncratic’ style he has become known for; experimenting with format, texture and sound to “transport an audience to a place...where possibly they’ve never been before”.
This CD is a soundtrack. Self-contained dramas that coagulate into the shifting and amorphous structure of Kötting’s psyche-ever present in his own work. Contributions from film makers, poets, artists, musicians, friends and family create something beyond just a collection of music chosen from personal taste, but a document of an artist’s life.
The CD is out now and costs only £12 (rrp £15). You can buy it from our online shop .
We Are Changing...
After a positive vote by Sonic Arts Network members earlier this year in favour of creating a new organisation, Sonic Arts Network legally merged last month with the British Music Information Centre, Contemporary Music Network and Society for the Promotion of New Music, creating a landmark new organisation, Sound and Music.
What is Sound and Music?
Sound and Music will be a forceful and passionate advocate for new and innovative work and the UK's first national development agency of international standing for sound and music. Working in partnership with practitioners and organisations throughout the UK, Sound and Music will enable more people than ever before to create, discover and experience new music and sound across genres.
What will Sound and Music do?
Live Events: We will showcase the most exciting British and international new music and sound though a fantastically diverse programme of live events across the UK.
Information and Resources: You'll be able to discover new music and sound though the sector's most comprehensive UK events listing service, through our collection of contemporary scores and recordings, and through publications, downloads and an interactive online network.
Virtual Venue and Online Community: soundandmusic.org will be an exciting creative space, the entrance point to new music and sound in the UK, and a major new community hub connecting people, sound and knowledge.
Learning and Participation: Our programme will create opportunities for people to discover, learn and create, ranging from first creative encounters with sound to the support and development of professional artists.
Want to find out more?
Over the next six months we will be working towards our full launch in spring 2009.
Visit the holding page at www.soundandmusic.org
A new beta website will launch in January 2009
Cut & Splice: From the Seven Days
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October 2020
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Visit the Cut & Splice Website
Sonic Arts Network and BBC Radio 3 present a two day festival based around Stockhausen's Aus den Sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days).
Cut & Splice: From the Seven Days brings together some of the world's leading contemporary avant-garde musicians for a unique and ground-breaking interpretation of one of Stockhausen's most controversial works. Featuring over 20 performers, installations and a four day durational piece, the festival is set in one of London's most atmospheric spaces, Wilton's Music Hall, the oldest grand music hall in the world.
Under the Artistic direction of Anton Lukoszevieze performers will include David Behrman, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Reinhold Friedl, Frank Gratkowski, Robin Hayward, Apartment House, Seth Josel, Aleks Kolkowski, Phil Minton, Maja Ratkje, Twentytwentyone, Mark Wastell, Marc Weiser, Nikos Veliotis and Michael Vorfeld.
Cut & Splice is the UK's premier annual festival of radical electronic music and sound art, co-produced by Sonic Arts Network and BBC Radio 3.
Visit the Cut & Splice Website
LumiSonic: Free Education Software from Sonic Arts Network
Developed through collaboration with the Sonic Arts Network, Whitefield Schools and Centre and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, LumiSonic is a sound application that visualises sound in real-time in a way that allows hearing-impaired individuals to interact with a specifically designed, graphical representation of sound. The software has been designed and created by by Dr. Mick Grierson of Goldsmith's College and is free to download and use.