For the next Immersive Audio Network meet-up we’re delighted to invite you to a private event to experience the world premiere of Unravelling / Desenredando by network members Ximena Alarcón-Díaz and Ulf A. S. Holbrook - developed in part through the first IAN Sound Artist Residency in 2023. 

• Arrivals: 6.15pm (please arrive in time to enter the installation at 6.30pm for the full experience)

• Artists talk and Q&A - followed by celebratory drinks and networking: 7.30pm

• Gallery closes: 10pm

‘Unravelling / Desenredando: Immersive listening to Colombian women’s voices’ is a surround-sound bilingual installation (Spanish and English) featuring the voices of nine Colombian women from varied backgrounds, listening to and resonating with each others’ stories of their migratory journeys to Europe. Improvising in trios, they weave a multilayered sonic memory of intense and intimate listening, while sounding their experiences of how migration and conflict are heard through their bodies: their social spaces of interaction, the memory of conflict in their native land, and the challenges met in the countries where they now live. 

The installation invites audiences to be immersed in these women’s individual experiences and find resonances in the overlaps and synchronicities, as they might also meet across universal narratives between gender, conflict and migration.

Immersive Audio Network members are invited to join this event at 6.15pm on Saturday 2nd March to experience the work in full. 

This will be followed at 7.30pm by short talks and a Q&A session with the artists - followed by an invitation to Immersive Audio Network members to join the artists, funders and stakeholders for an informal celebratory gathering. Drinks and refreshments will be provided. The gallery closes at 10pm.