SoundLab presents John D’Arcy
We are delighted to announce a guest talk / workshop with John D’Arcy from 13:00 on Tuesday 4 April in the Multimedia Theatre. The session is part of SM5317 Digital Sound and Computer Music. If you are not currently studying on this course but would like to attend, please contact us as places are limited.
The schedule will be as follows:
– 13:00 Workshop on 360-videography
– 15:00 Talk on Aural Diversity – hearing impairment, listening and music
Please indicate your interest here and to receive further updates.
Dr John D’Arcy is an artist and researcher based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC). His research interests include technology-mediated live performance, voice-based intermedia artwork, and participatory song-making. His recent project Pathways involves interdisciplinary collaboration between his digital media arts practice and Malta-based dance scholar and artist Paula Guzzanti, looking at how sensorial experience can be mediated using digital art to explore sustainable living practices.
His project Do You Hear What I Hear? shares interactive experiences that allow audiences to explore the diversity of hearing using a smartphone and headphones. Lecturing in Digital Media at Queen’s University Belfast, John delivers courses in interactive media, radio production and audio production. John annually co-ordinates STEAM outreach activities at SARC for NI Science Festival, and has delivered long-term online digital arts engagement workshops with SEN classrooms through the Virtually There programme (2017-2020).
John currently directs experimental vocal ensemble HIVE Choir, creating improvised music with an interdisciplinary group of artists for site-specific arts commissions with organisations including Open House Belfast, Belfast Film Festival and Belfast City of Music Summer festival. John is a board member of the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association and curates sound art exhibitions and events at Sonorities Festival, Belfast. John’s work has been broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster and Resonance FM, and featured at The Science Museum, London; Belfast Festival at Queen’s; and Happy International Samuel Beckett Festival. John’s podcast The Jewel Case (2015-2017) profiled a range of artists in a variety of practices working in Northern Ireland.