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An interdisciplinary collective researching music & sonic ecosystems. We create sociologically informed sonic engagements designed to provoke.

Exploring practice, vibrational media, silence, agency, grassroots, subcultures, resonance, & noise themes.

15/11/2025

Great evening on the first day of Louder Than Words Festival. Loved the discussion with our own Katie Milestone (Man Met) and Simon Morrison (Chester Uni) about their book ‘Transatlantic Drift’ the ebb and flow of dance cultures. Looking forward to today.

13/11/2025

Hello MASSmcr supporters - we're on the university website. Can you spot yourself in the brilliant photo by Paul Forshaw from our Sonic Transformations event? https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/public-engagement

05/07/2025

Listen back in full to Sonic Transformations {Ecosystems} which we staged for DVRK MASS II. With special thank to Paul & Andy for the amazing videography and the audience for getting involved.

Launch of the MASSmcr Sonic Manifesto. With new work by Katie Chatburn, Lois MacDonald, Caro C, Rosie Middleton, Maya Chowdhry, Antony Hall and Christopher G...

24/04/2025

Thanks to everyone involved in Sonic Transformations last night. It was a top quality evening of research-led experimentation with an engaged and playful audience.

23/04/2025

DVRK MASS II | Sonic Transformations: Ecosystems is TONIGHT!

We're very excited to introduce one further performer for this evening's event: Lois Macdonald.

Lois Macdonald, a practicing experimental musician and lecturer at the School of Digital Arts - SODA, presents PATIENCE XIV, which explores artificial intelligence and music through innovative compositions examining the boundaries of human and machine creativity. "All consciousness is now PATIENCE"

Free entry from 7pm at Off The Square. RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303065918239

22/04/2025

DVRK MASS II | Sonic Transformations: Ecosystems is tomorrow!

We're delighted to be welcoming Caro C to the lineup for The Space Between Us – a special collaboration with Rosie Middleton and Katie Chatburn.

Caro has created music for film, theatre, dance, has performed live across Europe and now also works in podcast production including for Sound On Sound magazine. Caro is the instigator and project manager of Delia Derbyshire Day, an electronic music charity which champions underrepresented electronic artists past, present and future.

See you tomorrow at Off The Square – RSVP here for free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303065918239

📸 Shirlaine Forrest

17/04/2025

Introducing another of our performers for next week's event: Rosie Middleton!

RSVP: DVRK MASS II | Sonic Transformations: Ecosystems

Rosie Middleton is a mezzo-soprano who specialises in the performance and creation of experimental music, contemporary opera and performance art. She was the 2020 winner of the Michiko Hirayama Prize for experimental vocal music and was honourably mentioned in the 2023 Darmstadt Kranichstein Music Prize.

At Off The Square on 23 April, she'll be collaborating with Katie Chatburn and Caro C on a special performance entitled The Space Between Us, employing voice, electronics, cello and found sounds to explore the creative space between themselves and the audience. Improvisation allows them to access vulnerability, open sharing and principles of trust, playfulness and care.

Free entry to a very special evening of experimental sound. Join us: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303065918239

Photo by Claire Shovelton

16/04/2025

Introducing another of our performers for DVRK MASS II: Katie Chatburn!

RSVP: DVRK MASS II | Sonic Transformations: Ecosystems

Katie Chatburn is a composer/sound artist, arranger/orchestrator and workshop leader currently completing a Leverhulme-funded PhD at The School of Digital Arts (SODA). Her research is looking at developing interactive, co-produced sound art installations that brings city dwellers together through playful interaction with soundscape.

At DVRK MASS II, she'll be performing Imagined Soundscape: Relocating Sonic Relations. This performance gives agency to the audience through the creation of a sonic hetereotopia, an imagined space that allows the re-examination of norms and structures and engages with the potential for collective transformation. Led by Katie using interactive ‘Flowfal’ technology within a spatialised environment, the audience will construct and manipulate imagined soundscapes, exploring the interdependent relational potentials emergent from re-imagined, co-created sonic space.

Free entry at Off The Square on 23 April. More info via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303065918239

14/04/2025

DVRK MASS II is fast approaching! Join us on 23 April at Off The Square for a night of sonic experiments 🔥

DVRK MASS II | Sonic Transformations: Ecosystems

One of those experiments will take the form of a collaboration between Antony Hall, Christopher Gladwin and Maya Chowhry: Biokinetic Mantra for the Evocation of the Animistic Matrix. This 30min live electronic music performance will feature organic components (mushrooms, moss, terrariums, water) being brought into contact with the ecstatic technology of dance music. It’s going to be special.

RSVP for free via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303065918239

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Music and Sound in Leisure Spaces: Special theme at Leisure Studies Association Conference 2020

Notice: There is a temporary freeze on submissions and registrations in light of Coronavirus related restrictions. We will announce once restrictions are lifted and we can make a clear decision on the running of the conference. * We will Join us 7-9 July 2020 for the Leisure Studies Association annual conference hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University.

Call for Participation

We are delighted to have a featured special themed strand as part of the conference as we are keen to raise the profile of music and sonic studies within the field of leisure research. We welcome proposals from anyone with a broad interest in the way music and sound influences and interacts with our leisure spaces.

Keynote Speakers

Dr Larissa Davies, Sheffield Hallam University: Davies’ research focuses on the economic and social impact of sport and leisure. She specialises in measuring and valuing the ‘non-market’ impacts of sport and physical activity on society.

Professor Rasul Mowatt, Indiana University: Mowatt’s primary areas of research and teaching are associated with: social justice, leisure studies, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy, he has looked at the nature and relationship between leisure, natural/built environment, and Race via lynching history and photography.

Dr Beate Peter, Manchester Metropolitan University: a member of the Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences and founding member of Music and Sonic Studies (MASS) at Manchester Metropolitan University, Peter’s work covers topics such as clubbing and the unconscious, electronic music and dance as an immersive experiences, rave culture in the UK, exploring aspects of ageing, enduring involvement, and leisure lifestyles.

Diane Wehrle, MSc SFIPM MCIM: Wehrle is regarded as one of the leading experts on retail and retail destinations, with an unparalleled knowledge and expertise in understanding current and emerging retail issues and consumer trends.

Full event details below

Manchester Metropolitan University: https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/business-school/lsa2020-conference/

Leisure Studies Association: https://leisurestudies.org/events/lsa-annual-conference-2020/