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New Sounds: EAR Workshop

New Sounds: EAR Workshop

  • Date12 Mar 2024
  • Time 4.00pm - 6.00pm
  • Category Seminar

New Sounds Festival 2024

EAR (Experimental Artistic Research) Sessions are an experimental research group intended for PGRs across the School of Performing & Digital Arts who have practice-based methods in their research. This collaborative, explorative group meet to share ideas and create art with one another. For New Sounds 2024, we open the doors for you to join us and experience this cutting-edge music research. This event is presented as part of the New Sounds Festival 2024, in partnership with of the EAR Series (Experimental Artistic Research) coordinated by Dr Nina Whiteman. This session will be led by PhD researcher and composer Daisy Henson. Everyone is welcome to join this interactive workshop, and there will be an opportunity to get involved yourself. For further information about this workshop, please email Daisy.Henson.2016@live.rhul.ac.uk

Event overview

CONTENT WARNING: This event will involve the use of ethically sourced animal parts. There will be taxidermy horse ears and a skull on display.  An allergy warning as whilst the animal parts are clean, the equipment/extras will have horse dander, hair, dust, grains etc.

  • Human - Horse - Transform
    A discussion around the compositional outcome of the first day of an interactive installation held in January 2023. Exploring the ideas of moving between human and horse perspectives via an auditory output.
  • Ear Pieces: A Collection
    Text scores looking at different ear positions on horses and their correlating emotional states. Opportunity to workshop a number of scores and watch a recording.

No prior experience with horses or music required. Feel free to bring objects/instruments/sound making things to use during practical sections of the event (e.g: plastic wrappers, crunchy things, squeaky things etc.)

Car parking

When you arrive for a College event at our Egham campus, please park in car parks 12 or 4.

Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you enter the main College gates and is located next to the tennis courts. If this car park is full, please drive further onto our campus to car park 4, which can be accessed by turning left at the mini-roundabout behind the Students’ Union. We would advise that you bring the College map to campus with you and give yourself plenty of time to park.

Blue Badge holders can find designated parking spaces in Car park 1W, as well as between Gardeners Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can find these locations by looking at our campus map opposite. If you require any assistance on arrival, please contact our premises team in advance of your visit by emailing: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk and they will be happy to help.

Please note that we operate an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on certain parts of our campus, however if you are here for an organised event, parking is unrestricted for event guests in car parks 12, 4 or 14 (or display your blue badge permit if parking in a disabled bay). If you have any questions about parking, please email: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk

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