About this Event
Soundings Event
Soundings: a showcase of sonic methods in law and panel reflections
Soundings is a project involving which explores the intersection of sound, art, embodiment, law and justice. It focuses on how sound-art and embodied methods can disclose the way legal alienation is experienced and perceived. The project is currently co-led by Dr. Shane Burke (Cardiff Law School), Dr. Joy Twemlow (Manchester Law School), and Katie Chatburn (SODA).
The showcase of the project will involve:
- A showing of the soundscape, Soundings, created by the project using sound recordings taken in several legal locations across Wales (e.g. the Cardiff Crown Court, Senedd Cmyru [Welsh Parliament]).
- A demonstration, involving the audience, of the embodied and sonic methods used by the project to collect participant data about the experience of legal alienation. This includes the technology - Flowfal - used by the project to co-create sound art with participants.
- Panel reflections from Dr. Kay Lalor (Manchester Law School) and Dr. Brona Martin (School of Design and Creative Industries, Greenwich University) on the methodological potential of Soundings for legal, social justice, and sound art research.
- Q&A
Panel Members
Dr Kay Lalor is a Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work explores the spatial and temporal dimensions of LGBTQI+ rights activism in international legal arenas, with a focus on how legally informed activism is translated into non- and quasi-legal projects. Her most recent work has explored the spatio-temporalities of rights through walking methods and ‘legal walks’ with people seeking asylum as a way of exploring and challenging legal and physical borders. She sits on the editorial board of Feminist Legal Studies and is a Trustee of the Socio-Legal Studies Association. Her book, Queer Interruptions in human rights law: Untimely futures of the Permanent Present will be published in 2026.
Dr Brona Martin is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist from Banagher, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Her compositions explore narrative in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology, oral history, sound and heritage, community engagement and spatial audio techniques. Brona's portfolio of works explore the layers and textures of sounds that contribute to the overall sonic-makeup of specific places both real and imaginary. Through listening, recording, analysing and processing, the layers of a soundscape are studied in great detail. Her creative works offers an in depth and alternative listening perspective and experience where the complexity of everyday sounds are examined and rearranged into a new context. References are also made to the design of the acoustic environment where noise pollution often masks the more pleasant sounds of the natural environment. Brona is also a Lecturer in Music and Sound at the University of Greenwich where she teaches post-production sound and composition.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cinema (Ground Floor) - School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, 14 Higher Chatham St, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
