Artist in Residence: University of Salford Acoustics Laboratories (2025)
I am currently artist residence at the University of Salford’s Acoustics Laboratories, in partnership with From The Other and the University of Salford Art Collection. This project will culminate in a new work premiering at Sounds from the Other City 2025.
During the residency, I’ll be working with the River Irwell—once known as the "hardest worked river in the world"—as a site of industrial heritage, ecological resilience, and cultural significance. Through audio, visual, and musical experiments, I’ll be exploring how sound can reflect the river’s shifting identity and invite new ways of listening to its history and present state.
Based at the Acoustics Laboratories, I’ll have access to world-class research facilities, including the reverberation room (where sound waves echo extensively) and the anechoic chamber (one of the quietest rooms in the world). These spaces, usually reserved for cutting-edge research and commercial sound testing, will become part of the creative process—shaping a new piece that merges environmental and technological narratives.
This residency feels like a full-circle moment—ten years ago, I moved to Manchester and volunteered at Sounds from the Other City to connect with the city’s creative scene. Now, I return as an artist, developing a new work that will premiere at SFTOC 2025 on May 4.
A further public presentation of the work will take place in Summer 2025, and the final piece will become part of the University of Salford Art Collection.
