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Composer, sound designer, writer and performance maker Melanie Wilson will share her inter-disciplinary approach to sound making for theatre and new music.
Melanie’s practice explores the collective listening act as a creative methodology, a performance aesthetic and a political gesture. Her talk will give insight into how these principles shape the conception and development of her work as an originating artist, how she works across scales and within teams as a sound designer and how collaboration shapes all of these contexts.
Melanie will share her approach to feminist listening, and her current creative process of using machine learning to tune to non-human listening and our relationship with other species.
2 hours with Q&A.
Ticket includes unlimited access to recording of the talk.
Melanie Wilson is a U.K. based inter-disciplinary composer, writer and performance maker. Her work is founded on the dialogue between sound, experimental forms of composition, language, technology and live performance. Recent work includes ‘Dreaming Species’, an online binaural soundwork for voices and AI, ‘glass human’, a chamber opera with electronics for Glyndebourne and ‘Current, Rising’, a hyper-reality opera for Royal Opera House.
Melanie collaborates with artists and companies in the U.K and internationally, including long term sound and composer collaboration on the work of theatre director Katie Mitchell. She was the Chair of the Association for Sound Design & Production 2020 – 23.