Field Studies 2012

10–13 September 2012

Field Studies 2012 is a four-day summer-school led by three acclaimed sound artists and composers. It explores the possibilities of engaging with places through listening, and working with recorded sound as a creative and practical tool in the…

A sonic view. Musarc at Bold Tendencies

Saturday 7 July 2012, 7:00pm

Music in the making: New works by Claudia Molitor, Michael Betteridge and Musarc A sonic view presents a concert-format Musarc first experimented with during the London Architecture Festival in 2010 under the title On air. Organised in the form of…

Musarc at Antistrophe, V22, Bermondsey

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 6:12am

In September 2011 curators Simon Wright and Emma Dean from Milton Keynes Gallery, and Bea de Souza, the Artistic Director of the London based independent gallery the Agency, came together to lend their shared interest in sound art a platform.…

Corpus Sonus at Turner Contemporary, Margate

Friday 20 April 2012, 6:00pm

Corpus Sonus is a new piece for choir and dictaphones developed by Musarc specifically for Late Night Live: Landmark at Turner Contemporary, Margate. Based on an original idea by sound artist and ensemble member Sam Belinfante, Corpus Sonus begins…

Chambers 2012

Friday 30 March 2012, 7:30pm

Musarc, the choir at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, invites you to an evening of choral, instrumental, spoken and mechanic performances of sound and music, ancient and new. Strike the viol…

Sounding out the territory. A Wire Salon at Café Oto

Thursday 15 March 2012, 8:00pm

Joseph Kohlmaier, Musarc’s director, will be taking part in a Salon organised by Wire Magazine at Café Oto on 15 March 2012, 8.00pm. * From Café Oto’s webiste: Maps are systems for ordering and orienting ourselves within a landscape.…

BANG! Being the Building. A Musarc Salon at the Barbican Gallery

Thursday 26 January 2012, 7:00pm

A balloon for the Barbican Musarc have been invited to host a salon as part of the Barbican’s OMA/Progress exhibition. For the event, we have commissioned a new film by sound artist Davide Tidoni which explores sonic impulse responses inside…

Musarc Christmas Concert 2011

Friday 16 December 2011, 7:00pm

Book tickets → On 16 December 2011, Musarc will be returning to St Bartholomew the Great with an ambitious programme of improvisation, instrumental and choral performances, a sound installation, and an exhibition of photographs by Yiannis…

Field Studies 2011

Tue 13 – Fri 16 September 2011

Field Studies 2011 is a four-day summer-school led by four acclaimed sound artists, architects and composers: Raviv Ganchrow, Liminal and Esther Venrooy. It explores the possibilities of engaging with places through listening, and working with…

Chambers 07/04/2011

Friday 11 March 2011, 4:12pm

Join Musarc’s choir and guest performers for an evening of new and old music, performances, readings and a rare screening of Beckett’s Film, a reading by Robert Harbison and music by Moteverdi, Rossi, Holst, Reich, Tormis and a recent…

Musarc Christmas Concert 2010

Friday 10 December 2010, 7:00pm

Friday 10 December 2010, 7.00pm Venue: St Bartholomew the Great, EC1 THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT We will be returning to one of London’s most beautiful churches and great acoustic spaces for our Christmas concert this year. Join Musarc on Friday 10…

Field Studies 2010 summer school

Mon 13 – Thu 16 September 2010

Field Studies 2010 is a four-day field recording workshop led by acclaimed sound artists and composers Marc Behrens, Justin Bennett and John Levack Drever. It aims to explore recording as a creative and practical tool for artists, architects and…

On air. Workshop and concert with Musarc

Thursday 1 July 2010, 4:00pm

Workshops: 4.00–8.30pm Open rehearsal and concert: 8.30–9.30pm Join Musarc, the choir of the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, for an afternoon of choral workshops and a concert with three…

Audialsense Workshop

Saturday 27 March 2010, 11:00am

Workshop and talk with Paul Bavister, Ian Knowles and Jason Flanagan from Audialsense Meet architects, acoustic engineers and sound artists Paul Bavister, Ian Knowles and Jason Flanagan from Audialsense at the exhibition who will be giving a talk…

Chambers 26/03/2010 Concert

Friday 26 March 2010, 7:30pm

ASD Choir, John Butcher and Audialsense, Tambourine Trio Book tickets > Saxophonist John Butcher, originally a physicist and a musician whose work ranges from improvisation and composition to the exploration of unusual site-specific acoustics,…

Audialsense

26 – 28 March 2010

Audialsense will set up a site-specific installation in the main lecture hall at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, filling the space with dense chords of pure tone which will be held for three days.…

Peter Cusack

Monday 15 March 2010, 6:30pm

Part of the Sound space series of talks at ASD. Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in acoustic ecology. Projects range from community arts to research into the role…

Brandon Labelle

Monday 22 February 2010, 6:30pm

Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer, working with sound, people, places and contextual strategies. His work explores the space between sound and sociality, using performance and on-site constructions as creative supplements to existing…

Janek Schaefer

Monday 11 January 2010, 6:30pm

Sound Artist & Composer Janek Schaefer was born in England to Polish and Canadian parents in 1970. While studying architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA annual prize), he recorded the fragmented noises of a sound activated dictaphone…

MUSARC Christmas concert 2009

Friday 11 December 2009, 7:00pm

MUSARC, the Choir at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, and friends invite you to an evening of singing, clapping, carols and other noises, followed by food, drinks and more music in one of the…

Sam Belinfante: Step piece

23 – 26 March 2009

Sam Belinfante (b.1983) is an artist living and working in London. In his projects he endeavours to bridge the gap between the visual and the audible. This is most evident in his graphic scores where drawings offer an interface between a performance…

Juxtaposition

Friday 10 July 2009, 8:00pm

Musarc, Entr’acte and the choir at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, present a diverse and unusual mid-summer programme of music and performances in one of the world’s oldest and last surviving…

Esther Venrooy: The space is the body

Wednesday 25 March 2009, 6:30pm

Listen to the lecture [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Esther Venrooy (1974, Rosmalen, The Netherlands) is a composer and sound artist working in the field of electronic music. After completing studies in classical saxophone, Venrooy attended…

Chambers 03/2009

Tuesday 24 March 2009, 6:30pm

In recent years, the computer as an instrument has challenged the distinct presence of the human voice and the sound and scope of traditional musical instruments. The coincidence of live and pre-recorded sound, its visualization, manipulation and…

Marc Behrens: From small-town Hessia to small-town China via a Norwegian glacier, calving

Monday 23 March 2009, 6:30pm

Marc Behrens is a composer and sound artist living in Germany. His work occupies several cerebral and physical areas. It mainly consists of electronic music and sound installations, often accompanied by photography or video. Read more about Marc…