The Music Department and Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University, Belfast is excited to announce a call for new compositions / performances as part of its international outreach work.

Pedro Rebelo, Professor of Sonic Arts and director of SARC has collaborated with Donegal based visual artist Geraldine Timlin in a show entitled "Silent Spring”.

The Oram Awards - a platform for innovation in sound, music and related technologies returns in 2021 for it's 5th edition.

JAM 4 students’ end of the year showcase: promising electronic music producers and our future sound engineers!

As part of the NI Science Festival programme 2021 JAM4 have developed Biophonia, an immersive audiovisual experience exploring the impact of climate change on the environment through sound.

SARC are again delighted to be part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival and this year we are proud to deliver a diverse range of events over the two week period

Launched this week, Green Future Media is a student-led online multimedia project, anchored in the Broadcast Production department.

-ence is a new collaborative project between improviser and Professor of Music Paul Stapleton (AEL) and electronic musician and Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Ricki O'Rawe (AEL)

Call for Papers: Contested Resonances: Creativity, Listening and Performance in Conflict Transformation Virtual Conference 29th-30th July 2021. Hosted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute.

Kim Montgomery receive the prestegious Anjool Maldé Journalism prize for her work ‘43 Days’, which was produced as part of her Masters in Media and Broadcast Production 2019/20.

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is excited to announce our first Online Winter School taking place 1 - 5 February 2021.

SARC MA & PhD graduate Isobel Anderson has a new podcast targeted at helping female identifying musicians produce and release their own music.

The Belfast Media Festival presents Kenneth Branagh in conversation with Kathy Clugston. He talks about growing up in Belfast, his upcoming movies, his creative process and his memories of the QFT.

Congratulations to Una Lee, SARC PhD Graduate and Visiting Scholar who was named as one of this year's winners of The Oram Awards.

Pablo Sanz, SARC’s PhD graduate and Visiting Scholar at Queen’s has received an award at the Phonurgia Nova Awards 2020 for the work STRANGE STRANGERS.

Congratulations to the 'Sounding Conflict' Research Project Team who have been shortlisted for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 by The Times Higher Education Awards.

A DfE award is available for a PhD project on Adapting sound-tracks for listeners with hearing loss at QUB. If you are interested in taking on this project please discuss with Dr Trevor Agus t.agus@qub.ac.uk ASAP, ideally by Monday, 10th August 20

SARC researchers past and present received awards at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), the leading conference in the field of new musical instrument design and performance, held online 21st-25th July.

Created by Koichi Samuels who runs JAM 4 creative music technology course, part of Junior Academy of Music, at QUB. The voices are pupils of Junior Academy of Music and some instrumental recordings are also included in the music.

This project uses data from the World Health Organization Situation Reports in which global figures are presented for population infected with Covid 19 and new deaths related to the virus by day between the 21st January 2020 and the 25th March 2020.