SOUND + ENVIRONMENT SYMPOSIUM

(Papers, Artworks, Workshops) from September 4-6, 2025, at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 

The Sound + Environment Research Group at Newcastle University is pleased to host a broad range of international scholars and practitioners for their inaugural symposium. The theme of the symposium aligns with the aims of the Sound + Environment Research Group, set-up to bring together researchers working across arts and sciences to explore the ways that sound can deepen our understanding of environments and the communities inhabiting them. For example, recent developments in the field of ecoacoustics are proving fruitful in assessing ecosystem change. Sound and listening are also increasingly used to monitor built structures and to inform urban and rural landscape design. We can use sound for scientific and artistic exploration, to inform and expand our knowledge of environments and our relationships to the world around us. Sound can inform a range of innovative interventions and solutions to problems. Through exploring scientific and artistic approaches together, we engage with sound and listening to create complementary ways of investigating, understanding, and taking action.

Organising Committee: Rob Mackay, Usue Ruiz Arana, Tatiana Alvares-Sanches, David de la Haye, Lawrence Davies, Martin Eccles, Martin Heslop & Will Dawson

"Sonidos de la ciudad y en mi cabeza."

My contribution and participation in the symposium consists of my sound art piece "Sonidos de la ciudad y en mi cabeza."My piece will be performed on September 4, 2025, in the Culture Lab Ballroom complex of the university.

"Sonidos de la ciudad y en mi cabeza" is an urban sound artwork. It combines the diverse sounds of the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, with the noises I experienced daily in my head, partly due to mental health issues and partly due to tinnitus. The everyday sounds of the city and my very own sounds, which arise in my head, form a strange and diverse sound atmosphere and soundscape as I walked through the streets and urban space of this city. Speaking for myself, or rather, listening to it, every city or urban space, and I know many of them, has certain distinct sound elements.

Link 

https://on.soundcloud.com/VCyG1eANNuUU5zmP7