Created by Pedro Rebelo and Frank Delaney 
Duration: 30 Minutes

The SARC x 20 experience is composed of sounds and images from archive of creative work by SARC researchers and PhD alumni between 2004 and 2024 and makes use of the Sonic Lab’s unique immersive capabilities. The result is a five screen experimental documentary with spatial audio which expands narrative and chronologies across space.

An interplay between the layout of the Sonic Lab itself and over 300 archived collections, the work creatively interrogates the archive using interventionist approaches to media representation and at times using processes akin to those used by the archived works themselves. Often questioning conventional audio-visual relationship, SARC x 20 brings out histories, performance, trends, sounds and images which are re-mediated in this unique format which allows for the expression of audio-visual gesture in an immersive context. Come prepared to turn your head and open your ears! 

SARC x 20 was created by Rebelo and Delaney to celebrate twenty years since the inauguration of the SARC building by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Reflecting research projects, public engagement activities, participatory projects, performance, composition, design and scholarship, this is a deep dive into the weird and wonderful ‘SARCness’ that seems to envelope those passing through as students as staff. The authors are grateful for the participation of HIVE Choir and the work is dedicated to the SARC community. 

Screenings:
Sonorities Festival Belfast, Sonic Lab April 2024
Docs Ireland, Sonic Lab June 2024
Dokumentale - International Documentary and Media Festival Berlin, Living Berlin, October 2024

Publications:
Rebelo, P. Delaney, F. "SARC x 20: Strategies in Audiovisual Spatial Composition”,  Music and the Moving Image Conference 2025, New York University, New York City.

Bio's

Professor Pedro Rebelo
Director, SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music
Pedro is a composer, sound artist and researcher. In 2002, he was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh where he conducted research in music and architecture.  Pedro has recently led participatory projects involving communities in Belfast, favelas in Maré, Rio de Janeiro, travelling communities in Portugal and a slum town in Mozambique. 
p.rebelo@qub.ac.uk

Mr Frank Delaney
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, English and Languages
My specialism focusses on broadcast and film production as well as music and sound for screen and media. Working in a variety of forms that include TV, film and radio documentary, sound design for film, TV and radio and music composition for screen and media.

I have an interest in story, narrative, production, technology and how these forms can be explored to change how we perceive and interact with our society, our world cultures and our physical environment. My research and practice interests include story, film, tv, radio, music, sound, photography, practice as research, creativity, psychology, archive creation and documenting. 

I have 25 years industry experience writing, directing, producing, editing, photographing, sound designing and composing music for national and international film, tv and radio and film for broadcasters such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BBC, Channel 4, RTE, TG4, CNN, MTV, PBS(USA) and Screen Ireland.
f.delaney@qub.ac.uk