About

Dr Iris Garrelfs

Core Organising Team Member

Goldsmiths, University of London (Department of Music)

Iris Garrelfs is a neurodiverse artist working on the cusp of music, art and technology across improvised performance, multi-channel installation and fixed media projects. Her practice research explores the process and diversity in interdisciplinary settings.

Often using her voice as raw material, performance and compositions have been compared to artists such as Yoko Ono, Henri Chopin, Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Arvo Part. Works have featured internationally, e.g Tate Britain, National Gallery, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, Enclave Festival Mexico,  fruityspace Beijing, Gaudeamus Amsterdam, MC Gallery New York, Musikkens Hus Aalborg.

Garrelfs is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also co-heads the Sound Practice Research Unit and leads the Goldsmiths Improv Collective.

irisgarrelfs.com

Dr. Alice Eldridge 

Core Organising Team Member

University of Sussex (School of Media Film and Music)

Alice Eldridge is a musician and researcher with an interest in how sound organises systems. Her research integrates ideas and methods from music, computing and ecology to advance theory and methods in the emerging science of ecoacoustics, as well as to create experiential soundscapes and ecosystemic music.  

She is currently a Professor of Sonic Systems at the University of Sussex where she is joint director of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, co-director of the Experimental Music Technology Lab and a fellow of the Sussex Sustainability Research.  Testament to her career indecision, she has appeared on BBC TV Spring Watch and BBC radio 4 Costing the Earth and Inside Science as a soundscape ecologist; on BBC radio 3 Late Junction and Jazz on 3 as a free jazz cellist; on BBC radio 6 Lauren Laverne's show as a contemporary chamber composer; and on BBC radio 1 John Peel show as a pop bassist. 

Helen Frosi 

Core Organising Team Member & Network Coordinator 

Independent 

Helen Frosi is a holobiont whose art practice pivots around ecological thought, poetics, and the environmental, creative, social, and political enmeshment of sound, hearing and listening. Her practice embodies epistemological pluralism, is facilitatory, and necessitates collaborative, cross-disciplinary work, communal projects and collective activities.

Helen is the Network Coordinator and a co-curator of AuralPluralities, a project that troubles accepted norms in audio technology, sound culture and Western epistemologies, and is particularly interested in questioning the extent of human perception, our relation in and through a vibratory world, and whether hearing is ever an individual act. Helen also curates EnCOUnTERs, an interdisciplinary project that encompasses art, ecology and the sonic imagination, and runs Rhythm Studies, a series of walks and activities that explore cosmic rhythms, cycles and spectra through vibrational signifiers, encouraging individual and communal sensings of, and attunements with, manifold worlds. 

Other long-term projects include: SoundFjord, a nomadic curatorial platform focused on sound-related research and practice (2010-present); Visible Near Midnight Recordings, for works that fall between the genre gaps (2012-24); Longplayer Day (2017-22). 

She is a workshop facilitator at the British Library and Global Generation's The Story Garden, and was an Honorary Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London (Dept of Music) from 2014 until 2023.

www.soundfjord.org

Dr. Aki Pasoulas 

Core Organising Team Member 

University of Kent, School of Arts (Music and Audio Technology)

Aki Pasoulas is an electroacoustic composer, working mostly with recorded, environmental and processed sound. He is currently Reader at the University of Kent, Director of Music & Audio Arts Sound Theatre (MAAST) and Co-Director of the Centre for Creative and Practice Research.

He is the Co-Investigator of the research project ‘Songs from the Shadows’, recreating the acoustic environments of Billy Waters, an African American amputee busker and street performer of the early 19th Century. He was the Principal Investigator of the research project ‘Sonic Palimpsest’, exploring our experience of heritage sites through sound; and the Co-Investigator of the project ‘Liminal Spaces’ researching remote areas by uncovering their hidden voices and activities.

Aki’s interest in sound's subjective experience was deepened through his research on time perception involving all senses, revealing the holistic nature of the sound perception process. His research interests include acousmatic music, time perception in relation to sound, psychoacoustics, spatial sound, and soundscape ecology. His scholarly and music works are published by KPM/EMI, ICMA, Sonos Localia, Stolen Mirror, Gruenrekorder, HELMCA, Pinpoint Scotland, Cambridge and Oxford University Press, and his compositions are performed worldwide.

Professor John L. Drever

Advisory Team Member

Independant Scholar

John L Drever works across acoustics, audiology, soundscape studies, experimental music and sound art, and has devised listening experiences and practice research projects related to place, listening and hearing in many different contexts and configurations, often in collaboration with other artists.  

Commissions range from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris (1999), Shiga National Museum, Japan (2012), Trumpington Park Primary School, Cambridge (2021-22), IMMA, Dublin (2023). He has been awarded prizes in the Music Nova Competition for Electroacoustic Music (1996 & 1997) and was the proud winner of the Worst Sound Category in the Sound of the Year Awards 2020. With Prof Andrew Hugill, he co-edited Aural Diversity (Routledge 2022). His radio documentary on R. Murry Schafer, Tuner of the World, for BBC Radio 3, was shortlisted for the Prix Europa. 

Drever was Professor of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art at Goldsmiths, University of London until 2024, where he co-led the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR) and was Co-Director of the recently funded LAURA, Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Doctoral Research Hub. 

He now focussea on his creative practice as an independent scholar.