Had a great weekend of November 12th and 13th 2016 at Greenwich University attending the Sound Image Colloquium organised by Andrew Hill and team. The main focus was on a series of talks and presentations and these were accompanied by installations, audio visual screenings, acousmatic concert and live performance programmes. The engaging series of talks examined the relationships between sound and image from many diverse perspectives ranging from interactive sonic sculptures to fixed media electroacoustc video music.

All the events took place in the University’s Stockwell Street Academic building, centred primarily in a lecture theatre with other spaces used for installations and the music concert. As well as the formal concerts and presentations it was a great idea to have the fixed media works available for viewing in the concourse area of the building on plasma screens with headphones for those who missed or unable to attend the screening sessions.

The attendees, all experts in their field, were very inquisitive and keen to share thoughts and ideas about their own theory and practice. One key discussion point was that, as an artistic discipline, visual music is coming of age. The imprecision of this umbrella term may no longer be adequate to describe the diversity of sub-disciplines which themselves have had several decades to mature. Visual music is still, however, a vibrant artistic practice much-loved by an enthusiastic forward thinking community.

The full programme of events can be found here: programme_soundimage2016