soundlands

Illuminated - A Lemur’s Song - BBC Sounds What can a critically endangered species of lemur tell us about the origins of music?

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Piano Drowning at Sinema Llangoed — Llangoed Village Hall ‘Piano Drowning’ is one of three scores from Annea Lockwood’s ‘Piano Transplants’ series, in which pianos are placed in specific locations that would somehow alter their physical states. ‘Piano Drown...

www.llangoedvillagehall.com/events/piano...

Our installation of Annea Lockwood's Piano Drowning (2021) gets its third and final celebration! Plas Bodfa Projects commissions Ynyr Pritchard's 'Resurrection of Catastrophe'. Witness this live performance at Plas Bodfa on Sept 11th.
#soundart #cymru
soundlands.org/commission/r...

At 85, Annea Lockwood Isn’t Done Listening to the Earth

Annea Lockwood got a beautiful article in The New York Times
Incl. A mention of Bayou-Borne, for Pauline, which was performed beautifully by MAZE

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/north-...?

We switch on ‘The Light at the End of the Dial’ at midnight tonight – and we’ll be broadcasting 24-hours a day for the following two weeks.

We will be conducting test transmissions throughout the day today on 87.9FM so for any listeners in Glasgow please let us know if you are receiving us.

Disquiet Junto Project 0690: Knot Bad

The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score.

Deadline: Monday, March 24, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0690

Tonight: The final night of Rhodri Davies' 4 day residency

It’s been a sublime 3 days with Rhodri. Don't miss out tonight.

‘Night 4 ends the residency with a re-visiting of material from my Wound Response album and a free improvisation." - Rhodri Davies
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...

Traffic noise triggers road rage among male Galápagos birds

How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health - interesting investigation by the BBC into the long-term health impacts of a noisy environment: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the 17-20 of March we're delighted to present a 4 day solo residency from great Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies, who has been a stalwart in experimental & underground music over the last 4 decades.

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...

Bold stylised graphic shows white scissors cutting a yellow symbol for sound waves. Text announces the event Toriad by Manuel Rocha Iturbide (Mexico). Free sonic haircuts in Bangor Wales presented by Soundlands. All on a purple background.

Another one from the poster archive - free sonic haircuts from Manuel Rocha Iturbide on a Wales high street!

‘Together in creativity for peace!’ Sain, the indie label pushing Welsh music forward for 56 years It’s gone from a cowshed to a cultural institution. As its 3,000-album archive gets digitised, different generations explain how Sain deepened Welsh identity

Here for Welsh music today – my big piece about the longevity and legacy of @sainrecordiau.bsky.social is in
@guardianmusic today. Diolch yn fawr iawn to Kev Tame, Don Leisure, Dafydd Iwan and everyone at HQ x @huwstephensdj.bsky.social - you might like this. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

This coming Saturday, Bristol people...

Poster for ‘Piano Garden’ by Annea Lockwood in Llanrwst, Wales. Image shows expansive woodland scene with a semi-buried upright piano in the foreground. Annea Lockwood is by the Plano with four other people. Sponsors logos at the bottom of the the poster.

One from the archive - Annea Lockwood installs her Piano Garden in Wales for Soundlands.

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A performer stands in low lighting behind a desk full of synthesisers and cables. The desk is lit by a spotlight. Behind her is a projection showing an architectural image.

At The Glad Cafe on March 15, we're presenting new, live radiophonic performances that'll be aired during our April broadcast – including Refugees of the Symbolic Network – أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ by Cerpintxt with Ruben Sonnoli.

[photo: Marc Tunguz]

Call for Contributions: Notational Intelligence and Music Representation
Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2025
www.tenor-conference.org

Our opening concert features interspecies musicking with whales and, er — crabs? digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...

SOUND STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICES CONFERENCE
AWA: ACTIONS OF WATER AWARENESS 1-2 MAY 2025
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
Call for Abstracts (Academic papers, Artist talks, and Posters/Demos):
Deadline: March 1st, 2025. Submission
you.stonybrook.edu/ssep/

In advance of our upcoming festival of radio art in April, we present a special night of live performances -
A new collaboration between Brunhild Ferrari, David Grubbs and Luke Fowler
and -
Refugees of the Symbolic Network by Cerpintxt (AKA Alaa Yussry)
For more details:
www.radiophrenia.scot

‘A neural fossil’: human ears try to move when listening, scientists say Researchers found that muscles move to orient ears toward sound source in vestigial reaction

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

‘A neural fossil’: human ears try to move when listening, scientists say

Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras | CMMAS | Michoacán México El principal espacio en Iberoamérica para la creación, reflexión, y aprendizaje de la música contemporánea, con y sin nuevas tecnologías | Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras | Michoacá...

www.cmmas.org "Resonances: International Program of Professionalization and Sound Creation". 2 years of advice from artists and experts in electroacoustic music from Mexico and UK. Develop 2 works for Visionses Sonoras festival,The Anglo Foundation, CDMX.
Deadline 24 January 2025.

Sonic Arts Forum Maynooth University 5th April 25.
Sonic creatives: introduce your work/receive feedback in a friendly supportive environment
Introducers have to be physically present.
Deadline: 24 January 2025
docs.google.com/.../1HWLb......
We are unable to pay travel/accommodation expenses.

Join the Sonic Heritage project After three months of collecting amazing field recordings from around the world, we’re excited to...

citiesandmemory.com/2025/01/join...

Sonic Arts Forum
Maynooth University nr Dublin Sat 5 April 2025
Call for introductions: receive feedback in a friendly/supportive environment
Introducers to be physically present
Deadline: 24 January 2025
docs.google.com/.../1HWLb......
We cannot make contributions to travel/accommodation expenses.

Frequencies, with Trent Wintermeier | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Found via The Data Fix w @melhogan.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

We talk a lot about environmental impacts of data centres in terms of heat and water, but these auditory intrusions are equally fascinating/horrifying, and communities are expected to be 'resilient' to these horrors.

Call for papers, sound artists and composers:

icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/call-for-sub...

Medal y Cyfansoddwr ENG | Tŷ Cerdd │Welsh Music Open call for composers and music creators. Medal y Cyfansoddwr – Cymru Fydd is a pathway offering three composers a paid opportunity to write for a chamber ensemble from Sinfonia Cymru. Deadline f...

Open call for composers and music creators

www.tycerdd.org/medal-y-cyfa...

Tonight: Richard Youngs performs 'Advent'

This show is free for OTO members!

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/richa...