Friday Late: Sonic Boom Friday 22 February 18.30 – 22.00

Sound is ever-present in our lives, whether it’s B a subtle soundtrack to the everyday or an Sonic Journeys through the Europe Galleries immersive sensory encounter. This Friday Late, Europe 1600–1815 Galleries explore the creation, experience and Many of the objects on display in the Europe preservation of sound. Join a soundscape led Galleries are vibrant, musical pieces. They tell tour of the galleries or create a standing wave us of salons, evening parties and great dinners to reflect the resonance of spaces and objects. through the ages, but also of battles or Visit a museum of sound and consider the role religious devotion. And yet missing in the of audio archiving. Discover sonic installations galleries are the sounds of these objects. Silent and live interventions as we blur the Opera begin to create that atmosphere. Three boundaries between sound, noise and music. singers lead you, sometimes unexpectedly, in this exploration of past and present. All events are free and places are designated @SilentOpera_ on a first-come, first-served basis unless stated silentopera.co.uk otherwise. Filming and photography will take place at this event. If you have any access C requirements, please let us know in advance Nature's Numbers by emailing [email protected]. The Raphael Cartoons 19.45 Please note, if the V&A reaches capacity we Based on extensive archival research, this new will allow access on a one-in, one-out basis. work by draws inspiration from two of the pioneers of : #FridayLate and . Performed on a range of instruments, A including Tom Richard's recreation of the Mini- Flora Yin-Wong and Shannen SP Oramics synth that translates drawn shapes Cromwell Road, Grand Entrance into electronic sound, the piece celebrates 60 Hear sets from artist, writer and DJ Flora Yin- years of experimental, electronic music Wong (PAN) and -based DJ Shannen SP. making in the UK. Flora Yin-Wong works with field recordings, @classicalremix dissonance, and influences from contemporary classicalremix.org club culture. Shannen SP is co-curator of 's monthly mid-week club night ø at D Corsica studios alongside Kode9 and holds a Sixty Years of Electronic Music: Female monthly residency on NTS Radio. Pioneers and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop @PetitFlo The Raphael Cartoons @shannensp_ 20.45 Join electronic musician Jo Thomas, instrument maker Tom Richards, writer Frances Morgan and composer-curator Benjamin Tassie as they discuss the pioneering figures of early electronic music. Explore unseen documents from working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as the panel the V&A in addition to her set in the Grand discuss the legacy of those early pioneers and Entrance with Shannen SP. Two esteemed the ways in which they inspire artists working artists – Mark Fell and Tomoko Sauvage – today. whose practices come from seeming opposite @jothomasglitchw sides of the sonic spectrum, are brought @TomTrsound together to explore what it means to generate @frances_morgan sound in music. @benjamintassie @PetitFlo

E G Lunatraktors: Standing Wave Mark Fell: Protomusic#1.5, The Triumph of Medieval & Renaissance, Room 64b Eternity over Time (Object: Fragment) The Simon Sainsbury Gallery Tapestries, Room 94 Standing Wave is a participatory piece that Mark Fell is a Rotherham-based electronic uses techniques from overtone singing and musician, multidisciplinary artist and producer body percussion to activate spaces and whose work has persistently challenged the cultural collections. Join Lunatraktors to boundaries between dance music and discover how voice, reverberation and academic practices. resonance can be used to consider the Protomusic#1.5 is part of a series that institution as body, the voice of a collection, addresses representation and materiality in and fields of cultural meaning. Experience sound. This Friday Late, Fell reworks his spaces and objects ringing gently with materials in response to the V&A’s tapestry sympathetic resonance, which can be both collection, in the form of a slowly evolving heard and felt. durational piece constructed from thousands @lunatraktors of recordings drawn from various musical traditions. F markfell.com Museum of Portable Sound Paintings, Room 82, H The Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery Tomoko Sauvage: Musique Hydromantique From 20.00 The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Please note this activity has a limited capacity Level 4 The Museum of Portable Sound brings the 19.30, 21.00 culture of sound to the world, one listener at a Paris-based composer and sound artist time. Groups of up to five can hear a vast array Tomoko Sauvage has developed a uniquely of worldwide objects using headphones and natural instrument – waterbowls – combining the Museum’s mobile – you can’t hear them water, ceramics and underwater microphones. anywhere else! Meet one-on-one with the Experimenting with the sounds of water museum’s director and share your own stories droplets, porcelain, waves and bubbles as well about the sounds in your life. It’s not an app – as hydrophonic feedback and electronics, her it’s an experience! work is grounded on a live performance-based @museumsound practice that investigates improvisation and museumofportablesound.com interaction with the environment, such as the acoustic spaces of architecture, temperature, G-H humidity and human presence. Supported by Curated by Flora Yin-Wong The Institut français du Royaume-Uni. London-born Chinese-Malaysian artist, writer @tomokosauvage and DJ Flora Yin-Wong curates a line-up of o-o-o-o.org unique, site-specific live performances across I collaboration with Action on Hearing Loss, Mini Sampler Pitchbend Hack supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Art Studio, Sackler Centre for art education @ttlalim 19.00, 20.30 Please note this game has a limited capacity. L Sign up from 18.30 How do you listen in Museums? Do some DIY electronics with Noise Orchestra! Hocchauser Auditorium, Level one, Sackler Hack a pre-made 10 second sampler/looper so Centre for arts education it becomes a pitchbendable instrument, 19.00-19.45 allowing you to speed up or slow down Museums are not silent places. They are full of whatever you record into the sampler. Noise noises: spaces resonate, visitors talk and some Orchestra are a sound art duo who use light, objects make sound too. Others, such as DIY electronics, turntables and graphical musical instruments, are often muted, behind scores to turn images and objects into noise. glass or beyond the reach of musicians and @OrchestraNoise visitors. Join Corinna Gardner, Senior Curator noiseorchestra.org of Design and Digital, VARI Visiting Professor Eric de Visscher and John Kannenberg, Director J of the Museum of Portable Sound, as they Introduction to Live Coding Music discuss how we listen to museum sounds and Digtal Studio, Sackler Centre for art education what we miss when we look at ‘sonic objects’. Live coding music is the creation of sonic @museumsound content generated through the execution of museumofportablesound.com computer code in real time. This workshop introduces you to making music with code and is open to anyone, regardless of programming PROGRAMME COVER DESIGN experience or musical knowledge. Led by Lizzie Edward Monaghan Wilson aka digital selves, a London-based @edward_monaghan artist who uses live coded algorithms of edwardcarvalhomonaghan.co.uk computer synthesis and found sounds to create a fusion of melodic, lo-fi and industrial . ALSO ON @dgtlslvs Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt K Until 24 February 2019 Phantom Resonances Generously supported by the Blavatnik Family The John Lyon’s Charity Community Gallery, Foundation Sackler Centre for arts education Tom Tlalim presents a sound intervention Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams within his co-designed Tonotopia installation, Until 14 July 2019 a display which explores experiences of Supported by Swarovski hearing loss and Cochlear Implants. Tonight, With further support from American Express this installation will be transformed into an acoustic echo-chamber resonating with Tonotopia: Listening through Cochlear Implants timbres inspired by accounts of tinnitus Until 8 March 2019 shared during #TinnitusWeek. Audio loops, ear In collaboration with Action on Hearing Loss, plugs and subtitles are all included. Tonotopia: supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund Listening through Cochlear Implants is in