SARC 20
SARC 20th Anniversary and Re-launch
Join us in celebrating SARC’s 20th anniversary through a series of events in 2024. 20 years after the SARC building was opened by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen we celebrate the richness of work by students and staff that have led to an international reputation when it comes to research in sound and music. With over 120 PhD thesis, over 40 academic staff, over one hundreds of masters students, visiting researchers and artists, SARC has produced an enormous amount of work across the most diverse areas of research. As part of our anniversary, we are taking stock and reflecting back on trends and how these have developed throughout the years. A new SARC archive acts as a central repository of research outputs and documentation, soon to be accessible by all researchers.
Our main celebration will take place during Sonorities Festival Belfast , 8-13 April 2024. Since the opening of SARC, Sonorities has been run by SARC staff and taking advantage of the unique facilities including the Sonic Lab and a world class technical and administration team. Over the years the festival has brought some of the most exciting and groundbreaking acts to Belfast in areas such as experimental music, contemporary music, improvisation, electroacoustic and sound art. It has also been a forum for establishing and fostering research networks and collaboration.
On the 11th April, we celebrate SARC’s history and connections through events including talks by PhD alumni (2:30pm-4:30pm), a concert in the Sonic Lab featuring works by PhD alumni (5pm-6:30pm) and a screening of Brian Cullen’s Thrice Removed that premiered at SARC’s International Computer Music Conference in 2008. At 7pm, the immersive work “SARC x 20” by SARC Director Pedro Rebelo and Frank Delaney delves into the 20 year archive to tease out the ‘SARCness’ in a multi dimensional journey montage with some surprises on the way…
2024 is also the year of our re-launch as a Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, a significant expansion of the range of our research interests involving over seventy researchers across six schools at Queen’s. Read more about our new Research Centre configuration in the About page.
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