Introducing Worlding Soundings.
A new collaboration by WORLDING x Acoustic Survey Art Lab, launching this May in Southwark, London.
Worlding Soundings is a new series of one-day sonic residencies exploring improvisation, listening, recording, and cross-disciplinary sound practice through guided sessions, practical techniques, communal plant-based meals, and evening hangouts with performances.
Rooted in WORLDING’s ethos of experimentation, care, and exchange, and shaped by Acoustic Survey Art Lab’s research-led approach to sound, the series invites artists, musicians, movement practitioners, and curious participants to spend concentrated time with sound in a structured but open setting.
Registration is open via Eventbrite.
Places are limited.
Improvisation
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Intentional Listening
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Field Recording
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Sound-making
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Improvisation ✳︎ Intentional Listening ✳︎ Field Recording ✳︎ Sound-making ✳︎
Meet your instructors
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Meet your instructors 〰️
Saxophonist and percussionist Mark Browne joins us with a thrilling arsenal of DIY instruments and objects. Expect spontaneous improvisations, unexpected textures, and collaborative sessions inviting the audience to explore sound-making.
Mark began playing music with an aspiration to play the guitar like Frank Zappa. Eventually, in 1980, he picked up a saxophone.
From 1983 to 1986 he played with Cockpit Improvised Music [with Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman, Richard Crow, Nick Couldry et al]. He was an occasional member of Conspiracy [with Adam Bohman, Andy Hammond, John Telfer and Nick Couldry]. In 1994 Mark performed in Denmark as a guest of Martin Klapper [released on scatterArchive].
Throughout the 1990s, Mark had concerts and made recordings with Lol Coxhill and attended the first Eddie Prévost London Improvisation Workshops.
In 2010 he formed Crush!!! [with Sonic Pleasure and Ian MacGowan]
Mark has been a member of Oxford Improvisers since 2019. Several recordings [with Lol Coxhill, Pat Thomas, Martin Hackett and Alex Ward et al] released on scatterArchive. Current interests remain with the development of a saxophone language within the context of free improvised music (or as a preferable term: Furniture For The Soul). more here.
Southwark, London
WORLDING was launched as an artist residency in 2021 by the artist Diogo Pimentão, soon joined by the contemporary art curator Joana P. R. Neves. The decision to launch it came from the awareness, heightened by the pandemic, that artists and art professionals lack moments of exchange, and time away from life and work challenges. To nurture authenticity, we regularly need to reframe work routines, build new connections, and dedicate time to uncompromised experimentation.
Get In Touch
If you’d like to register your interest, collaborate, propose an idea, or find out more about upcoming Worlding Soundings sessions, we’d love to hear from you. Whether you’re an artist, improviser, organiser, or simply curious about taking part, feel free to get in touch and we’ll share more about the programme, future dates, and ways to be involved.