The Sonic Atelier #2 – A Conversation with Robot Koch
(2025)
author(s): Francesca Guccione
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition continues the series The Sonic Atelier – Conversations with Contemporary Composers and Producers, dedicated to exploring the evolving role of the composer today. Through a Q&A format, the project examines how contemporary creators integrate composition, production, performance, and technology into their artistic practice.
This interview features Robot Koch, an award-winning composer, producer, and performer whose work spans electronic music, orchestral writing, and immersive audiovisual performance. Koch reflects on his hybrid identity as a creator, discussing the interplay between writing and production, the role of technology as an expressive tool, and the potential of spatial audio and immersive formats. The conversation also addresses the transformations of the music industry, the impact of artificial intelligence, and the importance of authenticity and craftsmanship in the creative process.
The Sonic Atelier #1 – A Conversation with Luca Longobardi
(2025)
author(s): Francesca Guccione
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition inaugurates the series The Sonic Atelier – Conversations with Contemporary Composers and Producers, dedicated to exploring the evolving role of the composer today. Through a Q&A format, the project investigates how contemporary creators integrate composition, production, performance, and technology into their artistic identity. This first interview features Luca Longobardi, who reflects on his hybrid practice across classical and electronic music, immersive performance, and sound design, offering insights into the fluid boundaries between writing, production, and live interpretation.
The Sonic Atelier – A Conversation with Luca Longobardi
(2025)
author(s): Francesca Guccione
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition inaugurates the series The Sonic Atelier – Conversations with Contemporary Composers and Producers, dedicated to exploring the evolving role of the composer today. Through a Q&A format, the project investigates how contemporary creators integrate composition, production, performance, and technology into their artistic identity. This first interview features Luca Longobardi, who reflects on his hybrid practice across classical and electronic music, immersive performance, and sound design, offering insights into the fluid boundaries between writing, production, and live interpretation.
music as an invitation - comments on experiences of online participatory concerts (a small handbook)
(2025)
author(s): Késia Decoté Rodrigues
published in: Research Catalogue
This small handbook shares the learnings from participatory online concerts which were developed as part of the "music as an invitation" project.
Using the two concerts developed for the "music as an invitation" project as case studies, this book presents the basic steps on putting together participatory online concerts. It also brings up some discussion about some relevant points to be observed during those steps, drawing specifically from the experience in the "music as an invitation" project.
This handbook aims to contribute to other curious and adventurous artists and producers who are interested in exploring creative ways to share music with their audiences. By exploring participatory ideas in online concerts, here we thrive to do what music does best: bring people together.
The "music as an invitation" project was a Marie Słodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Research developed at the University of Bergen, funded by the European Union.
Interviews with Collaborators of Jóhann Jóhannsson
(2025)
author(s): Francesca Guccione
published in: Research Catalogue
This research project gathers a series of interviews with some of the closest collaborators of Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969–2018). Conducted between 2022 and 2025, the conversations preserve first-hand testimonies of his creative process, collaborative methods, and unique sonic universe.
Through the voices of Echo Collective (Neil Leiter & Margaret Hermant), Francesco Donadello, Viktor Orri Árnason, and Yair Elazar Glotman, the project explores themes such as orchestration, sound experimentation, electroacoustic practices, and the integration of music with film. The interviews have been edited and adapted from their original form in order to ensure clarity and contextual coherence, while remaining faithful to the collaborators’ perspectives.
Taken together, these accounts shed light on Jóhannsson’s aesthetics and working philosophy, offering a multifaceted portrait of a composer whose legacy continues to influence contemporary music.
How eyes can hear and ears can see: an exposition on experiential translation
(2025)
author(s): Ricarda Vidal, Madeleine Campbell
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition brings together the epistemologies of art-making and translation. It presents a series of artworks the curators commissioned for a travelling exhibition on ‘Experiential Translation’ (2022-2025). Many of the works were created under the auspices of the Experiential Translation Network, which facilitates collaboration and exchange between translators, writers, poets, artists and scholars from across the globe.
The concept of ‘experiential translation’ as elaborated by Campbell and Vidal (2019, 2024, 2025), highlights embodied, multimodal communication as a performative inquiry into meaning-making. Blending art and translation practices, experiential translation values materiality, participation, and co-creation. Rather than mere transfer of meaning, translation is seen as a process of discovery, research, and knowledge production, embracing the unknown and exploring that which escapes language.
Encouraging a rhizomatic viewing experience, the exposition is structured into three interconnected thematic 'rooms', Serial Metamorphosis, (Un)repetition and Ludic Translation, which can be visited in any order, or even simultaneously.
The exposition includes video art, performance, (interactive) installation, sound art, poetry, painting and photography.
This work was supported by the AHRC under Grant AH/V008234/1, awarded to Ricarda Vidal (PI) and Madeleine Campbell (Co-I) .
Ethical Clearance Reference Number (King’s College London): MRA-22/23-34543