Sonic Arts Forum Leicester 2026 Free Event

The Sonic Arts Forum will be holding a free to attend event at De Montfort University Leicester on Saturday 18th of April 2026.This is an opportunity for creative people, working with sound and technology as a significant element in their practice, to introduce their work, and receive feedback in a friendly, and supportive, environment.

Schedule for the day

10.00-10.20 am Tea and coffee

10.20 - 10.50 am Tom Williams - Clouds and clocks

10.55 - 11.25 am Matt Brombley - Collaborative improvisation

11.30 am - 12 pm Salma Ahmad Caller - Counter sonic archives

12.05- 12.35pm Sara Montagni - Bio-sensor enabled music

12.35-1.20pm Lunch

1.20-1.50pm Jonty Harrison & Pete Stollery - Aides... mémoires… project

1.55-2.25 pm Holly Gowland - Natural vs artificial

2.30-3.00pm Sibylle Pomorin - Colour sound flow

3.05-3.35pm Tristan Kersten - Process based composition

3.35-3.50pm break

3.50 - 4.20pm Bruno Quast - Acousmatic film sound design

4.25 - 4.55pm Andrey Chugunov - Astrophysical sonification

5.00- 5.30pm John Biddulph - Digital and analogue microtonality

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Tom Williams - An ambisonic composition inspired by Karl Popper’s ‘clouds and clocks’ and Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds.

Matt Brombley - A series of cross-form, cross genre trios that embed expressive electronica within improvisational and collaborative performances.

Salma Ahmad Caller - Works drawing on ethnographic sound archives which explore cross cultural entanglements, power dynamics, and environmental issues.

Sara Montagni - Using brain-computer interfaces, head-tracking, and eye tracking to allow those with severe motor impairments to create music.

Jonty Harrison and Pete Stollery - Short-form pieces (3 – 6 mins), each created from a single field recording from various locations around the world, delivered online via Google Maps.

Holly Gowland - A piece exploring the tension, and interplay, between the organism and the mechanical: the boundaries between the natural and the artificial.

Sibylle Pomorin - A Hommage to Éliane Radigue: a stream of sounds, a single, long, flowing, wide-ranging tone that constantly changes and shifts in different “colours".

Tristan Kersten - Pieces created using simple material and variation techniques, with purity as their goal, to achieve the greatest effects.

Bruno Quast - Sound design for alternative films, inspired by acousmatic music, rather than melody or rhythm.

Andrey Chugunov - A sound and light installation based on astrophysical data from 14 radio pulsars depicted on the Voyager and Pioneer pulsar map.

John Biddulph - A microtonal work using test equipment, analogue/digital processing, and Iranian and European musical instruments.

The event will be in the PACE building which is number 33 on the map. https://www.dmu.ac.uk/documents/study-documents/undergraduate-study-documents/visit-us/dmu-campus-map.pdf. Car parking places are also detailed on the map.

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