UCL Public Anthropology Student Showcase - Audio Performance

Join students from UCL's Centre for Public Anthropology's audio and immersive postgraduate programmes for a sharing and celebration of their recent work.

Students on the Designing Audio Experiences: Art, Science & Production (MA) programme will be presenting two site-specific collaborative performances using live spatial (immersive) audio.

The immersive audio projects that will be performed in the event are:

Conversation

Amanda Butterworth, Diego Ramos Gutierrez and Mikolaj Tchorzewski | 2024 | UK

Based on the musical motif of a conversation the performers will converse with one another and interface with technology to find a common language. Working with Max MSP the artists have created a 3-dimensional space with its own set of rules. These boundaries serve as a container to facilitate patterns of call and response between voice, guitar, field recordings and processed sounds.

Liu Yao

Lin Lin, Xiqing Xiang, Sunhui Zhou, Yizheng Zhu | 2024 | UK

“Liu Yao” is an immersive audio-visual experience project inspired by “I Ching“, China’s oldest philosophical classics. Drawing from the myriad changes between heaven and earth, it aims to enable people to listen to nature, ponder the laws of the world, and ultimately find their own answers. The project will utilize digital workstations that combine video and audio, employing MaxMSP to create an immersive spatial experience. This transforms traditional texts into sounds and images, allowing participants to bridge the language barrier and directly engage with ancient divinatory culture through auditory and visual design.