17th December: Stefanie Alisch (Humboldt University Berlin) – Towards an Epistemology of Sound Systems - Knowledge of Kuduro’s interactive vocal practice Animação

21st January: Introducing the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (North West) project .

David Govier (Project Manager) - Live music and song captured in the region's sound archives

Siân A. Williams (Digitisation Manager) – LGBTQ + MIXTAPE: an immersive re-imagining of BBC Radio Manchester news stories at the height of protest against Section 28 and the AIDS crisis

18th February: Maciej Smółka (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) – City-specific musical sounds: Relationships between people, places and spaces

18th March: Hillegonda Rietveld (London South Bank University)– 'Journey to the Light’? Immersion, Spectacle and Mediation

15th April: MASSmcr Symposium @ Digital City Festival Manchester

20th May: Manoli Moriaty (Liverpool Hope University) - Upsetting the controls: unorthodox use of technology, from dub through jungle to noise

17th June: Architects Of Rosslyn – Discussion of their project Natural Rites, a data encoded triptych featuring endangered UK animal species and polyphonic melodies, transcribed for instruments.