Resonant Frequencies

1 February–7 December 2019
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DRAF presents Resonant Frequencies, an investigation into sound in all its forms through a series of workshops and a summit.

Resonant Frequencies focuses on sound, noise and hearing and is comprised of a peer-to-peer workshop programme and an academic summit with live performances. Resonant Frequencies is delivered in collaboration with Wysing Arts Centre and Goldsmiths University, London.

Roberts Institute of Art
Roberts Institute of Art

Artists participating in the workshops at Wysing Arts Centre include Ain Bailey, Benedict Drew, Anne Hardy, Tom Richards, Aura Satz and Imogen Stidworthy.

Sessions are delivered by Jez riley French, Lottie Poulet, Steve Beresford, Elaine Mitchener, Dr Lorenzo Picanali, Professor John Drever.

Roberts Institute of Art

The one-day summit forms the public component of Resonant Frequencies and will be hosted at the George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths University, London on 7 December 2019.

Roberts Institute of Art

It is an afternoon of talks and presentations by artists, philosophers and sound researchers, followed by audio-visual and sound performances by Dmitri Galitzine and Laura Dee Milne, Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Aura Satz and Harold Offeh.

Summit participants include Dr. Jess Aslan, Professor Maria Chait, Professor John Drever, Dr. Iris Garrelfs and Maria Papadomanolaki.

The first session focuses on academic aspects of sound and audio to attempt an understanding in relation to art, space, politics and philosophy through presentations, artistic practice or demonstrations.

Roberts Institute of Art

This academic session is followed by performances presenting a variety of artists who work with sound. The performances will take the form of both acoustic and electronic with performers using a wide range of methodologies to engage with sound production and performance.

This unique offer presents audiences with an opportunity to engage with exceptional practitioners alongside one another enabling a cross pollination of ideas and practices.

Roberts Institute of Art
Roberts Institute of Art


Roberts Institute of Art
Roberts Institute of Art

Jess Aslan

Jess Aslan is an educator, composer and performer working in computer assisted music performance and production. She specialises in performance and composition using synths and code. Aslan finished her practice-based PhD at the Reid School of Music in 2016, examining the aesthetic implications of computers and their languages in composition and performance. Since completing her PhD she has been working at Goldsmiths, University of London and Kingston University. Aslan has performed with collectives, bands and as a solo artist across Europe and has presented work at conferences including Sonorities, International Computer Music Conference, International Festival for Innovation in the Performing Arts, Conference in Interdisciplinary Musicianship, ISSTA.

Professor Maria Chait

Maria Chait is a Professor of auditory Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Work in her laboratory, at the interface between cognitive and ‘systems’ neuroscience, is using behavioural methods, eye tracking and functional brain imaging (MEG, EEG and fMRI) to understand the role of the auditory system as the brain’s early warning system and to determine how listeners use sounds to learn about, and efficiently interact with their surroundings.

Bow Gamelan Ensemble

Bow Gamelan Ensemble was founded in 1983 during a boat trip up Bow Creek by germinal performance artist Anne Bean, influential experimental sound artist Paul Burwell (1949 – 2007) and internationally renowned sculptor Richard Wilson. The Ensemble’s name derives from the area of East London where the artist’s live and work and from the Indonesian Metallophone musical ensembles. Working with invented instruments, kinetic sculptures, lights and their sounds, the Bow Gamelan Ensemble devise spatially responsive sculptural situations to perform among. Since Burwell’s passing (2007), Anne Bean, Richard Wilson and the Estate of Paul Burwell have worked with archivists to preserve and organise the group’s extensive archive. Bean and Wilson continue to collaborate.

Laura Dee Milnes

Laura Dee Milnes is an artist working with performance, sculpture, writing, image, music and facilitation. She considers herself to be her own object, views her texts as sculpture, her performance as space, and all of these things as her body. Laura makes visual artworks in the form of objects, drawings and performances and combines these elements in the live shows and recordings she makes with her band, Sweet Heave. She also enables others to create and discuss, through organising and curating DIY events and publications, leading and supporting workshops with children and adults, co-hosting a podcast about being working class in the arts and co-ordinating a London-based network of artists who use writing in their practices.

Professor John Drever

John Drever is Professor of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-leads the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR). He was a co-founder and chair of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community (a regional affiliate of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology) and from 2004 to 2008 was a director of Sonic Arts Network. He is an avid collaborator and has devised work in many different configurations and contexts. Commissions include Groupe de Recherches Musicales, France (1999) and Shiga National Museum, Japan (2012). In 2017 he was a Guest Professor at Aarhus University. Drever researchers the intersections of sonic art, sound design, soundscape studies, urbanism and environmental acoustics.

Dmitri Galitzine

Dmitri Galitzine lives and works in London. Galitzine’s work is set within folk culture. It uses the kind of stories people read about in newspapers, absurd and amazing, ordinary and epic. Dmitri is romanced by hobbyists and eccentrics; their sheds and garages; passions and dreams. He opens portals to hidden or overlooked activities and social groups through performance, socially engaged actions, sculpture, documentation and affection. The artist’s stories show people as characters, where you can’t tell the difference between the real and role play.

Iris Garrelfs

Iris Garrelfs is an artist working on the cusp of music, art, and sociology across improvised performance, multi-channel installations and fixed media projects. At Goldsmiths she co-heads the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR) and chairs the Longplayer Working Group which instigated the biennial Longplayer Day; Garrelfs also is Pathway Leader ofthe MMus in Sonic Art. As one of the first UK artists that combine voice with digital processing, Iris is interested in modes of listening as a way of connecting to the world. Her works are included in institutions worldwide, for example Tate Britain, the National Gallery, and MC Gallery New York. She is also a commissioning editor of the open-access journal Reflections on Process in sound.

Harold Offeh

Harold Offeh was born in Accra, Ghana, and grew up in London, UK. He is an artist and educator working with performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh, often employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture and is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of history. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, Studio Museum Harlem, USA, MAC VAL, Paris, France. Harold is currently a Reader in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University and visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths in London.

Maria Papadomanolaki

Maria Papadomanolaki is a Greek sound practitioner and researcher currently based in London. Her work and research focus on the role of sound in the way we engage with our environments, with memory, placemaking and perception. Special importance is placed on the synergy of atmosphere, voice, text, experimental radio practice, live audio transmission, soundwalking and the environment in developing new strategies for opening up and re-exploring spaces of high-mobility and change. Papadomanolaki has presented her work and research at galleries, conferences and festivals in Europe, UK and the US. She is a founding member of SoundCamp collective and has co-edited the publications Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves (PAJ Publications, 2011) and sounds remote (SoundCamp/Uniformbooks, 2016).

Aura Satz

Aura Satz’s work centres on the trope of ventriloquism in order to conceptualise a distributed, expanded and shared notion of voice. Works are made in conversation and use dialogue as both method and subject matter. She has completed several works on women in electronic music such as Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel, and Pauline Oliveros. Satz is interested in notation systems, and methods of writing sound or musical transmission. She has taught widely at universities across the UK at BA, MA, and PHD level, such as the University of Kent, Goldsmiths, and the University of London, and is currently a Reader and Tutor at the Royal College of Art.