A Space for Sound – The Arches Sound Project

A Space for Sound – The Arches Sound Project is a listening space located in the historic centre of Newcastle University. The space brings together temporary sound pieces from a range of practitioners and researchers working across the University. 

Located in the historic centre of the campus, close to the Students Union and the Armstrong Building, the Arches are an iconic part of our city centre campus. The Institute for Creative Arts Practice earlier this year invited colleagues and students to submit their ideas as part of a programme of sound installations to be hosted within the Arches.

The response was fantastic, and the resulting programme – which launches next week - will bring together and present diverse sound-based work/research from a range of practitioners and researchers working across the University as well as projects with our external collaborators and partners.

The project team includes Professor Richard Talbot and Mel Whewell from the Institute. The Technical aspects of the project are being curated by Tim Shaw who is a sound artist and Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Arts & Cultures. Tim's work is being supported by PGRs (and sound artists) Rob Blazey and Yusuf Ghani.

The Humanities Research Institute and the Institute for Social Science are also partners in the project.

Here's what you can listen out for in the next few weeks:

15-17 June	One Key Magic	Michael Mulvihill
24-30 June	One Day Changes	Skimstone Arts, Ako Ismail and Shahor Omar, with David Baines and Theresa Easton
4-7 July	Reclaim the Streets	Sarah Ackland
18 July – date tbc	Walking Festival of Sound	Tim Shaw
​20 August - 3 September	​A walk round Contención Island	​Martin Eccles

More information available here (link to https://www.ncl.ac.uk/creativearts/research/current-projects/creativearts-currentprojects-archessound/

The exact dates for the autumn term are still to be confirmed, but performances will include:

A walk round Contención Island	Martin Eccles
Catcher in the Rye	Alastair King
In the Sunset	Beatrice Keelan
Conversation Ensemble	Elliot Hayes-Clare
Inside Talks	Francesco Bendini
Encounters	Gareth Longstaff
Everything Will Be Alright	Helen Shaddock
all illusions, all again	James Clay
Nightfall	Jim Lloyd
Dawn Gardener	Jorge Boehringer
Blood, bone, crone: menopausal musings from here and there	Karen Ross
Traces	Kate Chedgzoy
"My grandma's voice" or "Nothing dies that is remembered	Kitty Martin
Basic Sound	Rob Blazey
Flight of the Monarchs	Rob Mackay
Ritmos del Parque Urbano el Bosque	Rob Mackay
Sea Songs	Rob Mackay
The Old Pottery's Murmurrations	Usue Ruiz Arana