WIRED Online: get an earful of sound art this autumn

Is art something that you can hear? Yes!

The online edition of our WIRED music technology club returns this autumn, with A Young Person’s Guide to Sound Art, a free six-week course led by sound artist Amy Beeston.

This is a course designed to introduce the world of sound art: art that is not just visible, it’s audible too. Over six sessions, participants will explore artworks in three broad areas: experimental, environmental and ecological sound art. Each session will include short presentations and a mix of practical exercises involving listening, looking, making and discussing.

A Young Person’s Guide to Sound Art is open to girls, young women, non-binary people and other marginalised genders aged 11-18 years old. Priority will be given to those living in Yorkshire, but applications are open to those elsewhere.

The course starts on Tuesday 25 October and will be delivered over Zoom.

To apply for a place on WIRED Online: A Young Person’s Guide to Sound Art, either download the application form below and return it to us, or email info@yorkshiresoundwomen.com to request one.

WIRED Online: A Young Person’s Guide to Sound Art (Word doc)

About the course leader

Amy Beeston is a sound artist and audio researcher living in Orkney. She has a background incorporating both artistic and scientific studies of sound, focused on human and machine listening throughout. Initially studying physics before switching to a degree in music technology, she went on to gain a masters in sonology at The Hague’s Royal Conservatoire and a computer science PhD in the Speech and Hearing Research Group at the University of Sheffield. This interdisciplinary approach has allowed her to collaborate widely with artists, scientists, educators, business people and clinicians.

While living in Sheffield, she co-founded SONA and Yorkshire Sound Women Network, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield and in Music Psychology at the University of Leeds.

She moved to Orkney with her family in 2018 and her first solo exhibition, Stone Fringe Sound, was presented at Northlight Gallery in 2019.

WIRED is funded and supported by Youth Music.