Sound Artist Residency
To help kickstart activity of our newly-launched Immersive Audio Network, we created an exciting Sound Artist Residency opportunity (with a value of £5000). The aim of the residency is to support the production of an audio-first immersive creative project or the development of a piece of research in this field. This residency dovetails with research taking place in MyWorld, including the Immersive Audio Network initiative and the Immersive Audio short course offer at Bath Spa University.
We were bowled over by the huge amount of high quality of applications received.
"Valle de Cocora" in Colombia. The palm is Colombia's national tree called "Palma de Cera del Quindío". Photo credit: Ron Herrema.
Unravelling (Ximena Alarcón & Ulf A.S. Holbrook)
After a thorough shortlisting process, we are delighted to announce we have awarded our Immersive Audio Network: Sound Artist Residency to Ximena Alarcón, a Sonic Migrations Artist, working in collaboration with Oslo-based composer and spatial audio researcher Ulf A. S. Holbrook.
The sound artist residency will fund their sound work: Unravelling. It is based on recordings of eight different Colombian migrant women expressing their own migratory journeys in Spanish and English, as well as responding to fragments of an oral archive with testimonies collected by the organisation Diaspora Women in 2018.
The sound work is a reflection on their multilayered responses and synchronicities that weave a fragmented history of migration and conflict. This sound work will exist both as a sound installation, and as a concert piece, allowing for different modes of presentation.
Ximena and Ulf will explore how people could experience the installation involving responses to the listener's body in movement, either with an array of speakers or also considering headphone listening and experimenting with Head-Tracking for Audio, integrating it with Ximena's Intimal App.
The finished work will be toured as an installation at Centro de la Memoria Histórica in Colombia, performances at art spaces such as Iklektik and Cafe Oto in London, Dareshack in Bristol, a resident talk at The Studio in Bath as well as festivals and conferences internationally.
What is the Immersive Audio Network?
After listening to industry and community needs, Dr Ruth Farrar from Bath Spa University established an Immersive Audio Network for sound practitioners, educators and enthusiasts in the West of England. The purpose of the Immersive Audio Network is to create a networking platform to share knowledge and investigate innovative ideas, deliver training opportunities to encourage an inclusive talent pipeline in this field and showcase the West of England as world leaders in immersive audio.
This Immersive Audio Network: Sound Artist Residency is supported by Bath Spa University’s Narrative & Emerging Technology Lab (NET) and the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and is funded by the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership.
CCCI is a strategic research centre at Bath Spa University focusing on interdisciplinary research that engages arts, culture, humanities, science, and technology.
The Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) is a strategic research centre, drawing together academics and practitioners, both within Bath Spa University, as well as facing outward, engaging our city, our region, and our world.
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D is a £6.8 million collaboration that aims to raise the bar for the region’s creative industries. The five-year programme seeks to forge connections and partnerships in Bristol and Bath, sharing knowledge, creating crossovers and even greater opportunities in what’s already one of the most vibrant clusters in the UK.
MyWorld is funded by UK Research and Innovation's Strength In Places Fund. MyWorld delivers a unique combination of world-leading knowledge, funding and facilities to inspire and enable new ideas, products and processes. MyWorld is on a global mission to provide the imagination, creativity, and technical expertise for our pioneering creative sector.
