Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Joanne Armitage discusses her music installations and performance systems that centre on experiencing sound in a physical way, proposing approaches to incorporating additional physical dimensions of sound and how the body can be employed as a vessel to channel expression and intensity.

'Feeling Sound: Reconsidering the physical in sound practice' was presented as part of the Max Power Users Symposium at the 2017 Electric Spring festival of electronic music, held at the University of Huddersfield.

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Sound is grounded in vibration. It is a corporeal form/practice in its conception, production and reception. Often directed by a kinaesthetic motion - a movement of an object in space, moving air around space. Sound is actuated and propagated through materials, through air, through and mediated by you. You hear it when it reaches your body. It enters you and is interpreted by you. Sound is physical - sculpted, formed and received. My practice-based research is interested in developing music installations and performance systems for experiencing sound in a more physical way. In this talk, I will discuss the development of and reflect upon several works that explore the relationship between human perceptions of the sonic and somatic to create augmented experiences of music. I will propose approaches to incorporating additional physical dimensions of sound and consider how we can employ the body as a vessel to channel expression and intensity.