Design Research Talk with Dr Emma-Kate Matthews
Join us for an afternoon talk with Dr Emma-Kate Matthews, introducing spatiosonic practice — an experimental mode of working between architecture, music, and sound art.
Drawing from her creative research and practice, Emma-Kate will explore how sound can both articulate and be articulated by space, and how drawing, modelling, and making continue to inform this expanded field. Although much of her work resists conventional visual representation, acts of montage and the notion of the after image become visual tools for reflecting on sonic events.
The session will include audio-visual excerpts and demonstrations of works-in-progress in which drawings or models drive sonic performances. Emma-Kate will also introduce her Resonant Bodies — custom-made fork- and bell-like instruments used to explore harmonic structures and to “tune ideas.”
The talk concludes with a broader conversation on experimental and transdisciplinary practice, considering how vocabularies, tools, and ways of thinking can move fluidly between disciplines, and how sonic practices might expand our understanding of architectural space beyond the visual and measurable.
Website: www.ekm.works
Instagram: emmatr0n
