Gascia Ouzounian and Jacob Kirkegaard from Recomposing the City are featured in this article on sound art by Ella Delany in today's New York Times. Ms. Delany draws attention to important issues like the growing prominence of sound art; the perception of sound art by audiences; sound art in the global arena; the influence of new technologies upon the medium; and the buying and selling of esoteric and ephemeral works.
On the Road
Posters by ICRH Institute Fellows and Project Research Groups like Recomposing the City are on display at the Peter Froggatt Centre at Queen's University Belfast until 28 October and will be going on a 'poster road show' -- watch out for them at the Student's Union and the International Postgraduate Centre. And view them online, here!
MArch Dissertation Presentations
Sarah presented the Recomposing the City project to Queen's Architecture Master's of Architecture dissertation students in the design studios. We're looking forward to working with several students to think about how architecture and sound can work together in the city. This research by the students may go on to inform their later design projects in their two-year course.
Soundspace: A Manifesto
Gascia Ouzounian and Sarah Lappin from Recomposing the City have co-authored a manifesto on 'soundspace' that will appear in the forthcoming issue of Architecture and Culture, the journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association. Please look out for the issue on Transgression: Body And Space (Vol. 2, No. 3), guest edited by David Littlefield (University of West England) and Rachel Sara (University of West England), and due to appear in November 2014.
Partnership with Ryerson University: Soundspace Toronto
Recomposing the City is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University in Toronto, where we will host a design lab for an international group of architects and sound artists in Summer 2014. This programme will invite pairs of sound artists and architects to collaboratively create design proposals for development projects in the City of Toronto. Proposals will be publicly presented with view to sharing our research with the wider community of artists, architects and researchers, as well as urban planners and policymakers. We are grateful to Professor Colin Ripley, Chair of the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, and pianist Eve Egoyan for their support of this collaboration.
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