Event overview
Students on the MA in Audiovisual Cultures and MFA Music perform their installations and showcase film work for their final major project across various venues on campus.
Performances from 12noon:
12pm Angie Piazza in the EMS installation room: "Sound & Vision"
'Sound & Vision' is an exhibition that explores the intertwine of sonic temporality and static visuality through the realms of music photography and album covers.
1pm Phoebe Ngozi in RHB 167: “Songs In the Key of Us”
A tech-infused, audiovisual, vocal performance reforming the commodification of the Black Femme in music performance. Song, sight, and the refusal of spectacle.
2pm Xinqiao Li in RHB 153 (EMS) : 'Toilet'
The art gallery is a weapon of control. It's a sterile, white, silent institution designed to make you forget you have a body—a body that sweats, digests, and shits. It teaches you to be clean, quiet, and obedient. We are here to begin your de-conditioning. Welcome to my 7.1.4 surround-sound indoctrination chamber. In this hall of perfect audio, we have composed a symphony for the guts: a thunderous, hyper-realistic orchestra of explosive bowel movements, roaring farts, and piss hitting porcelain.
3pm Jisu Jeong on prepared piano in The Great Hall 'Sonarium: London / Lacan / Liminality'
Sonarium, from sonus (sound) and -arium (a place that holds), means “a garden of sound” or “a space containing sound.” This project is presented as an audiovisual installation in the form of a listening workshop, combining 4-channel spatial audio sourced from soundwalks in London with an exploration of resonance through the medium of the piano.
Presented through sound-reactive video, performance, and sound installation, the project comprises three parts of equal length, inspired by Lacan’s three orders: the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real.
4pm Evan O'Donnell in RHB 167 : 'How Do I Know the Pattern'
'How Do I Know the Pattern' debuts a custom performance system using gesture sensors and machine learning to explore embodied rhythm and texture within electronic music. Muscle tension and illustrative movements sculpt, stretch and trigger percussive phrases and field recordings, while also shaping and responding to a machine learning model trained on the performer’s movement language. The relationship between artist and technology serves as a metaphor and mediator for the tension, surrender, listening, and balance between person and lived environment, exploring the permeability between embodied expression and the patterns of our surroundings.
6pm Lily Pietersen in RHB Cinema: 'Dreaming, Ending, Changing'
Filmed over the course of one year, this piece follows F*Choir, a London-based queer choir, as they use song to build community, grieve, protest and express identity.
PureGold: our annual festival of eclectic, innovative and exciting work coming out of the Department of Music.
Events are free and open to all
Image: Evan O'Donnell and Lily Pietersen
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Sep 2025 | 12:00pm - 7:00pm |
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