Somerset House Studios is a new experimental workspace in the centre of London connecting artists, makers and thinkers with audiences. The Studios are a platform for the development of new creative projects and collaboration, promoting work that pushes bold ideas, engages with urgent issues and pioneers new technologies.
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Hey!!! We would like to introduce to you SAGARE STUDIOS Y'ALL!!!!!! Hope you enjoy hit the subscribe button and hit the like button if you enjoyed it and laughed! Go subscribe to our channel for some goofy videos besides the interviews!! Go and subscribe to Life Is Gaming if you want more goofy content!!!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgCM... Follow us on Instagram! @noah_besera @_.edawg @nwgclutchy Thank you guys so far for the support and everything to get us here. God bless all of you ...
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Vicki Bennett explores the processes of making audiovisual content, working with archives and found footage. Using collage as a compositional tool opens up endless opportunities to create and experience results that are more than the sum of their parts, opening doors (and windows) to let light in and move beyond limited and repetitive ways of creat…
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Joe Namy: Sound Clash from the Eighth Automobile LDN | Gallery 31: Temporary Compositions
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Studios resident Joe Namy presents sound work Sound Clash from the Eighth Automobile LDN as part of Somerset House Studios' new Gallery 31 exhibition Temporary Compositions, available to listen to online for the duration of the show. Comprising of audio documentation from Namy’s ongoing performance piece Automobile (2012-2021) for cars with souped …
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Ilona Sagar: Soft Addictions | Gallery 31: Create, Capture, Organise, Pluralise
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As part of Ilona Sagar's Soft Addictions works for Gallery 31's third season Create, Capture, Organise, Pluralise, visitors are encouraged to listen to Sagar's looped sound work within the gallery space as an accompaniment to her print and text pieces. Soft Addictions is a generative series of works that analyze the interface between people and com…
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S12 Ep8: Shenece Oretha: Listening Wholes | Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy
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Shenece Oretha takes an experimental approach to the podcast format for Somerset House Studios’ Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy series. The multidisciplinary artist choreographs a DJ lecture mix that explores the theme of the body, using sonic forms that range from instruments and speech, to musicians, conductors, and listeners. Oretha journeys thr…
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S12 Ep7: Timur Si-Qin | Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy
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A new artist-led podcast from Timur Si-Qin exploring how our health is intimately tied to the health of the natural world, as part of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy. Drawing from religious history, contrasting western and Indigenous cultural relationships with nature, and the desired shift towards a spirituality of symbiosis, artist Timur Si-Qin u…
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Wazzup, everybody! Just wanted to give you guys a laugh! Hope you enjoy it and feel free to use this music for what u like yeah. Instagram- @noah_besera @._edawg @nwg_clutchyy God Bless yall and stay safe out there! ~Sagare Team
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Wazzup, everybody! In this episode, our friend LAKEW is giving us HISTORY LESSON MESELEGNE! Hope you guys enjoy it! Instagram- Noah- @noah_besera Ezana- @._edawg Interviewee- @x_l_x_x_l God bless yall and stay safe out there! ~Sagare Team
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Wassup, everybody! Sagare is back with their 2nd episode! We LIT BABY! In this episode, we talk about the moment when KIRUBXL had a very hilarious incident at Kings Island. Also, sorry guys that my guy Edawg cursed in this video. I totally forgot to BLEEP it out and use the CENSORED sound effect. It's my fault. I will give him a warning and make su…
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S12 Ep6: Defrag - Technology in Culture and Society
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Defrag was a series of talks curated by Jake Charles Rees for Somerset House Studios between 2017-2019, exploring how technology is changing the world we live in, including the way we produce and consume art and culture. This podcast revisits the live recordings in the form of an audio montage, meshing together a range of fragmented thoughts from g…
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Welcome to our FIRST INTERVIEW OF OUR CHANEEELLLLLL!!! I hope you guys had an AWESOME start to the new year and pray that 2021 will be WAY BETTER than 2020😂🙄. Shoutout to Elisur for making this interview funny and goooofyyyy. Guys, there will be more on the way and hit us up if y'all want to be interviewed!! Instagram: - @_.edawg @noah_besera @nwgc…
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Wazzup Guys! Not really a big deal, but if yk yk. Hope you guys enjoy it! Hit the subscribe button and the like button PLUS THE NOTIFICATION"S BELL!!! Don't forget, in January 2021 we coming out with EPISODES!! Instagram- @._edawg @noah_besera @nwg_clutchyy
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S12 Ep5: AGM 2020 | Beatrice Dillon, Rian Treanor, Deforrest Brown, Jr. & Sarra Wild
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An hour long segment of reflections and music from Beatrice Dillon alongside the artists she invited to contribute to AGM – DeForrest Brown, Jr., Rian Treanor and Sarra Wild. Somerset House Studios celebrated four years of its dynamic resident artist community with the first online edition of its annual building takeover series AGM. Featuring perfo…
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Daoooooonggggg... looks like we ain't comin up till 2021!! But aye, which is more important, school grades or YouTube views?? Exactlyyyyyy!! Nah i'm just playin haha. Hope you guys enjoyed this new update and will be patient until we come back in the new year!
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Hey!!! We would like to introduce to you SAGARE STUDIOS Y'ALL!!!!!! Hope you enjoy hit the subscribe button and hit the like button if you enjoyed it and laughed! Go and subscribe to Life Is Gaming if you want more goofy content!!!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgCM... Follow us on Instagram! @noah_besera @_.edawg @nwgclutchy Thank you guys so …
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Jessica Ekomane in conversation with Annie Goh | Mutant Promise
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Part of Mutant Promise's online series for progressive music-making, including introduction courses to coding and sound software, digital field recording, interior soundscape composition, and remote hardware workshops for DIY synth building at home. Note: At 30.25 the artist uses the word 'centralised' in place of the intended word 'de-centralised'…
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S12 Ep4: Open Your Palm, Feel The Dust Settling There - Laura Grace Ford
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Revisit Open Your Palm, Feel The Dust Settling There, an audio work by artist and Savage Messiah author Laura Grace Ford, generated by psychogeographic walks – drifts – through the Latimer Road, Hammersmith and White City areas of West London. Originally comprised of three parts, the work is now available as a feature length podcast. Comprised of a…
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S12 Ep3: Climatotherapy - A virtual listening room by Nozomu Matsumoto & Nile Koetting | Deep Listen
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The word ‘climatotherapy’ refers to a type of physical and mental treatment which utilizes the influence of climate on the human body, exemplified by treatments in the Dead Sea or at hot springs. Climatotherapy was an installation presented by Nozomu Matsumoto & Nile Koetting at ASSEMBLY in 2018, comprised of sound, light, smell, ikebana and virtua…
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S12 Ep2: THE UNNOW NOW | Vivienne Griffin
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The first in our new Pause series, THE UN-NOW NOW is a new commission by Studios artist Vivienne Griffin. Our programme I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now takes its title from another of Vivienne’s works. This sound work is the culmination of a group workshop hosted by the artist in January, exploring dissonance, vocal fry, polyphonic harmo…
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S12 Ep1: Jacob Samuel's Eternal Life | Deep Listen
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A performance by Jacob Samuel and Samir Kennedy featuring a collage of interviews with Beatrice Dillon, Coby Sey, Ines Camara, Scott Pattinson, Tadej Vindis and Vanessa Omoregie (Camgirls Project). The piece looks into the existence of infinity in the present moment, the relationship of tech and the image of the body, the future of prophecies betwe…
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S11 Ep1: Are you Hyper Functional? Artists respond to the idea of wellness | Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy
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Are you feeling Hyper Functional? Vivienne Griffin, Florence Peake, Rowdy SS & Rebecca Bellantoni respond to the idea of wellness, described as the optimization of mental and physical wellbeing. Time and again we find we cannot measure up to impossible demands, frustrating ourselves. Those who do not or cannot conform to wellness culture risk the c…
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S10 Ep3: Karen Gwyer ~> ASSEMBLY: Christian Marclay
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For ASSEMBLY, Karen Gwyer approached the street noises as drums. Building over the course of the performance, Karen will use and process the ambient sounds to create a multilayer, polyrhythmic piece created from the more punchy and identifiable sounds as well as distorting the general hum. The mood and intensity will shift as the performance progre…
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S10 Ep2: Lawrence Lek ~> ASSEMBLY: Christian Marclay
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Pedestrians, traffic, roadworks, protest; the corner of Somerset House where Waterloo Bridge meets Embankment is a hive of often unpredictable activity and noise. Acknowledging and working with this to define a compositional framework, Marclay invited a series of guests to collaborate in bringing the outdoors inside for an evolving series of electr…
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S10 Ep1: Beatrice Dillon ~> ASSEMBLY: Christian Marclay
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Artist and producer Beatrice Dillon’s new piece for ASSEMBLY, infraordinary, combines installation and performance, in which specially composed sounds are triggered using the system’s Kinect camera, alongside a live controlled sound mix of the street. Inspired by writer Georges Perec’s concept of the ‘infra-ordinary’ - taking account of the micro e…
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S9 Ep2: Salvage Rhythms | Sam Williams and Roly Porter
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Developed in residence at Somerset House Studios, visual artist Sam Williams and musician Roly Porter present Salvage Rhythms, a collaboration resulting in a performance and film drawing on systems of archaeology, mycelial networks, composting and non-human relationships to explore different possibilities of survival and connection. Sam and Roly wi…
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S9 Ep1: Silence | Wysing Polyphonic x Somerset House Studios
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With contributions from Annie Goh and Natalie Hyacinth (Sonic Cyberfeminisms), Emma Smith, Ziúr, Roy Claire Potter and NSDOS, we hear the artists discuss explore the idea of silence and how this can be disrupted, interjected or accepted in progressive ways, using an excerpt of Audre Lorde’s seminal text Your Silence Will Not Protect You as a jumpin…
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S8 Ep5: Predators and polyphony - Jerome Lewis | Re:cognition
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Conversations about language. Artist Nick Ryan presents an ontological adventure into voice recognition, language, semiotics, sensory experience, immersive sound and imagination. In this bumper final episode of the series, Nick Ryan continues his search into the meaning of language with Anthropologist Dr Jerome Lewis, asking why and where language …
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S8 Ep4: The lion and the wine-dark sea - Neil Bennun | Re:cognition
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Conversations about language. Artist Nick Ryan presents an ontological adventure into voice recognition, language, semiotics, sensory experience, immersive sound and imagination. The series documents and delves into the research being undertaken by Nick Ryan and his collaborators for RE:COGNITION, an interdisciplinary project exploring the connecti…
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S8 Ep3: The sea facing limb - Angela Terrill | Re:cognition
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Conversations about language. Artist Nick Ryan presents an ontological adventure into voice recognition, language, semiotics, sensory experience, immersive sound and imagination. The series documents and delves into the research being undertaken by Nick Ryan and his collaborators for RE:COGNITION, an interdisciplinary project exploring the connecti…
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S8 Ep2: The red apple - Don Hoffman | Re:cognition
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Conversations about language. Artist Nick Ryan presents an ontological adventure into voice recognition, language, semiotics, sensory experience, immersive sound and imagination. The series documents and delves into the research being undertaken by Nick Ryan and his collaborators for RE:COGNITION, an interdisciplinary project exploring the connecti…
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Artist Nick Ryan presents an ontological adventure into voice recognition, language, semiotics, sensory experience, immersive sound and imagination. RE:COGNITION is an interdisciplinary project exploring the connection between the sound of spoken language) and meanings manifest in the physical world as sound or concepts otherwise capable of being r…
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S7 Ep5: Apparatus - Ubi Sunt | Flora Yin-Wong
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#5 Apparatus: Equipment, methods, original recordings since used in tracks. Ceremony at temple starting, Ubud; machine? - unknown; instrument recording in Rotterdam; playing the organ; yangqin recording; unknown machine, Arctic; Unknown; Unknown; playing the piano, London; Greek wedding, Thessaloniki; crickets at night, Canada; running water, unkno…
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#4 Orison: Efficacy of Prayer and Pilgrimage. Kecak performance, Indonesia; instrument recordings; gamelan from a banjar in the street, Bali; monks in Cantonese, Po Lin monastery; Chinese temple, unknown; Unknown - Tokyo; chants, Sha Tin; prayer, unknown; yangqin recordings; gong recording, Tirta Empul water temple ceremony; unknown; Bali airport; …
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#3 Argot: Language, the way mankind communicates through voice and mainstream culture. Early south-east Asian music; kecak performance at sunset, Uluwatu, Indonesia; record played in Hong Kong; car radio, UK; man in the street with a boombox, London; Mark Leckey interview; extreme spin class, London; Harrods video; wedding; club, unknown; family in…
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#2 Remains: Fragments of memories, friends, voices. Unknown - Berlin?; Unknown; Car radio - South London; club, Hong Kong; club, Greece; car radio, UK; Paris, France; car factory, Belgium; gallery, Paris, Sai Wan, Hong Kong; store, Seoul, South Korea; car journey, Hong Kong; London; Chicago; Tokyo supermarket, Japan; taxi, Hong Kong; traffic, Bali;…
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#1 Terrene, 'of, or like earth', focuses on the physicality of land and air. Dungeness, UK: wind, gravel, Hokkaido, Japan: crows in the mountain, snow, Polyrrhenia ruins, Crete: aquaduct at night, Ubud, Bali: running stream, insects in rice paddy fields, Budapest, Hungary: tunnel, Chicago: subway, Unknown, Hong Kong: construction in distance, Belgi…
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S6 Ep3: How to be Free | Nadeem Din-Gabisi
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How do we surf and ride the wave of existence? Breaking down the work of Maurice White, Marvin Gaye, Buju Banton, Tupac Shakur, and Matana Roberts, Somerset House Studios resident Nadeem Din-Gabisi explores the artists that have inspired him artistically, serving as influence to his new multi-media project, POOL. POOL examines the mental health iss…
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How can we use technology to nurture a more inclusive culture in digital art, electronic music, and beyond? In June 2019, Somerset House Studios partnered with Mutek and the British Council to host the Amplify Residency, bringing together eleven female and non-binary digital artists and electronic musicians from across world for a week of talks, pr…
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S6 Ep1: Glory to Sound: Wolfgang Tillmans
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Musician, producer, DJ and Somerset House Studios resident Nabihah Iqbal invited artist and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans to share and discuss the music that is most important to him in front of an intimate audience. The talk and collective listening experience was part of the Glory to Sound series - talks, live shows and club nights, with the aim…
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S5 Ep4: Recoding Utopias: The Importance of Queer spaces | Feminist Internet
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The importance of Queer spaces Since 2006 London alone has lost more than half of its LGBTQIA+ spaces. In this episode we explore what it means to be queer and the act of queering itself. Speaking to creatives and activists who are finding new ways of transforming and performing in Queer spaces, and why these spaces are so vital to the city and its…
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S5 Ep3: Recoding Music: Has the internet truly brought autonomy to musicians? | Feminist Internet
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Has the internet truly brought autonomy to musicians? The Internet has changed the way we make, share and listen to music. Now, more than ever, female and non binary artists should have the opportunity to be heard on their own terms. But what are the effects of algorithm led streaming sites on artist autonomy, our listening habits and the value of …
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S5 Ep2: Recoding Anger: Shaking off the shame of womxn's rage | Feminist Internet
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Shaking off the shame of womxn's rage It has been argued that 2018 was the year womxn’s rage filled our screens, and a pivotal time for womxn freely expressing their anger. In this episode, we talk about whether as womxn we are beginning to shake off the shame that comes with being angry, explore different types of anger but crucially, question who…
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S5 Ep1: Recoding Voice Technology: Is a Feminist Alexa possible? | Feminist Internet
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Is a Feminist Alexa possible? The voice of Alexa is everywhere. It is estimated that 70% of recorded voices in the UK are female or female sounding. But what are the consequences of having such gendered voices encoded into our space? And what is the potential of voice technology outside of commercial contexts? In this episode, we speak to the learn…
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S1 Ep5: Technologically Fabricated Intimacy
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Dating apps, gamification and blockchain technologies. Marija Bozinovska Jones and Dr Alessandro Gandini address how dating apps influence the forming of technologically-mediated intimate relationships in a project exploring what decentralised organisational models bring into online dating cultures. As part of this project Athame, a LARP (Live Acti…
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A live art-science research event from Thought Collider and Dr Charlotte Wells including a series of public experiments, performances and discussions, 3 Days of Fat focuses on the construction of an island of fat. Inspired by Fatberg, an ongoing artistic research project by Thought Collider and artist Arne Hendriks, 3 Days of Fat brought the artist…
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S1 Ep3: EURO-VISION, or the Making of the Automated Gaze
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A collaboration between FRAUD and Dr Btihaj Ajana, Euro-vision examines the archaeology of operations of predictive technologies and how these structure the emergence and evolution of migrant flows. Academics and artists work together to offer new perspectives on contemporary issues. Now in its second year, the King’s College London x Somerset Hous…
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Ted Hunt and King’s Professor in Philosophy of Mind Matthew Soteriou couple the practice of design and philosophy to actively ask: to what extent does the way we represent time reflect mind-independent, objective features of temporal reality, and what is subjective in our representation of time? What is fixed and what is malleable? Academics and ar…
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S1 Ep1: Mossi Forecasts: Reading Weather in Burkina Faso
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With the aim of encouraging a co-production of indigenous and scientific knowledge to tackle climate extremes, filmmaker Maeve Brennan and researchers from King’s Department of Geography, Dr Camilla Audia and Frances Crowley, researched the knowledge and expertise held in Burkina Faso’s rural households; homes that are subject to the most immediate…
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Highlights from ~> RADIO ASSEMBLY, broadcast from Somerset House Studios with artist shows, discussions, sonic explorations and music from ASSEMBLY and beyond. In November 2018, Somerset House Studios presented the inaugural ASSEMBLY with five days of sound and performance extolling the best in contemporary electronic and experimental music and the…
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Somerset House Studios resident Jacob Samuel, one half of Album Corp, talks bots, Oasis and recent projects including If You Die in Roblox You Die IRL, and making music with musician/saxophonist Ben Vince. Recorded earlier in the summer Jacob Samuel introduces the concept underpinning the work If You Die in Roblox You Die IRL, an adaptive audio/vis…
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