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26 Sep 24
Announcing our Sound Generator Artists
Meet our 6 Sound Generator Artists for 2024-25.
10 Sep 24
New collaborative commission for Nature Calling
We are delighted to be producing a new collaborative commission for Nature Calling.
05 Sep 24
Co-Director Maija Handover to start a Creative Health Masters (MASc) at UCL
Maija Handover will be stepping back from her role as Sound UK Co-Director this September.
13 May 24
Marketing & PR Support for Bristol New Music 2024
We managed marketing and press for Bristol New Music festival again in 2024.
25 Apr 24
The Fleet Rural Tour - Incredible audience responses
Brilliant audience responses on rural tour.
25 Apr 24
Bird Bath - Q&A with Alice and Alistair
We chatted to Alice and Alistair ahead of Bird Bath
11 Mar 24
ARTIST INTERVIEW: THE FLEET - Sarah Acton, Emily Burridge & Becki Driscoll
We spoke to writer Sarah Acton and musicians Emily Burridge & Becki Driscoll ahead of the Seiners premiere.
26 Feb 24
Artist interview: The Fleet - Jason Singh
We chatted to Jason Singh ahead of his South West tour
23 Nov 23
Sound Generator: Spotlight on Caitlin LM
Spotlight on Sound Generator artist Caitlin LM
23 Nov 23
Sound Generator: Spotlight on Heledd C Evans
Spotlight on Sound Generator artist Heledd C Evans
17 Nov 23
Sound Generator: Spotlight on Chizu Anucha
Spotlight on Sound Generator artist Chizu Anucha.
03 Nov 23
Sound Generator: Spotlight on Marco Woolf
Spotlight on Sound Generator artist Marco Woolf.
26 Oct 23
Sound Generator: Spotlight on Nikki Sheth
Spotlight on Sound Generator artist Nikki Sheth.
12 Oct 23
Sound Generator: Spotlight on Gwen Siôn
Spotlight on Sound Generator artist Gwen Siôn.
15 Sep 23
Recording the Forest - Part 2
An interview with Jez riley French - part 2
17 Aug 23
Recording the Forest
An interview with Jez riley French
14 Aug 23
Sound UK awarded funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund
06 Feb 23
What is a broadside?
Introducing Broadside Ballads
11 Nov 20
New playlist tracks added
Ft. This Is The Kit, Donald Byrd, Duval Timothy + more
11 Nov 20
Sonic Journeys autumn 2020
Create your own sonic journey soundtrack
28 Sep 20
Interview with Sarah Nicolls
Powerful new musical story 12 Years, named after climate warnings from the IPCC, tours online with 12 streams in October.
17 Sep 20
The Power of Music
Whilst we’ve been quiet over the past few months, we’ve been busy working out how best to bring extraordinary musical encounters to you and others across the country.
07 Sep 20
Blog: Sarah Nicolls
Thoughts on re-starting tour...
30 Mar 20
New Playlist
Ft. Arve Henriksen, KOKOROKO, Dorothy Ashby, Julia Kent
18 Mar 20
Coronavirus Sound UK update
Coronavirus Sound UK update
01 Mar 20
BLOG: Pee Wee Ellis
Pee Wee Ellis tells us more about Funk: A Music Revolution and working with James Brown...
29 Feb 20
Re-working 12 Years for 2020
"When I wrote this work, climate news was not part of our daily language or narrative..."
03 Feb 20
Funk Foundations Playlist
Listen now
12 Dec 19
JUST ANNOUNCED! FUNK: A Music Revolution
Celebrating the influence of funk
03 Dec 19
Reflect Project Film now live
Watch our Reflect project film and explore the connection between the coast and wellbeing
21 Nov 19
Reflect Bude in pictures
A weekend of sound, light, music and art for all the family October 2019
08 Oct 19
‘Let’s take a Moment’ with Thread and Word.
Artist Walks with Elspeth (Billie) Penfold - ‘Let’s take a Moment’ with Thread and Word.
16 Sep 19
How does living by the sea make you feel?
Swirl - A new sound installation inspired by Bude and North Cornwall
12 Sep 19
Notes from an artist
Karma Seas by Ulf Pedersen
07 Sep 19
What's your favourite song about the sea?
New playlist now live!
05 Aug 19
YOUR SONIC JOURNEY
Create your own Sonic Journey soundtrack
05 Aug 19
A Change is Gonna Come news
November gig news
03 Jul 19
BLOG: Mental health and the coast
Find out more about REFLECT project research
13 May 19
REFLECT in Bude and Gravesham
Art and science unite to explore how Cornwall's and Kent's coastlines impact our mental health
21 Mar 19
JUST ANNOUNCED! Ariwo UK tour
May – June 2019 with special guest Camilla George
11 Mar 19
Change in line up
Laura Cole and Kit Downes to replace Keith Tippett for March Tippett + Bourne tour dates
06 Mar 19
Artist call out! 10 new commissions
Kent and Cornish Artist opportunities for REFLECT in Bude and Gravesend
28 Feb 19
A Change Is Gonna Come 2019 news
We're going to WOMAD Festival!
18 Feb 19
Tippett & Bourne trailer now live!
Keith Tippett and Matthew Bourne – on two grand pianos
09 Jan 19
New trailer from The Paper Cinema
Watch now...
19 Dec 18
Watch Letters I Haven't Written project film
Gwyneth Herbert's new project film now live
12 Dec 18
A Change is Gonna Come project film now live!
The power of protest songs
31 Oct 18
Incredible audience comments for Letters I Haven't Written
Moving, extraordinary, inspiring
23 Oct 18
The Planets 2018 audio now online
Listen to The Planets 2018
10 Oct 18
Read Gwyneth Herbert's Guardian article
Everyone has a letter they wish they’d written, says Gwyneth Herbert...
03 Oct 18
FOUR-STAR REVIEW AND AMAZING AUDIENCE COMMENTS!
Music and science collide
03 Oct 18
Gwyneth Herbert's manifesto for connection
How can we be more connected?
01 Oct 18
LETTERS I HAVEN'T WRITTEN trailer now live!
Watch the trailer
24 Sep 18
Uranus // Samuel Bordoli
Converting 84 years into a 5 minutes piece...
24 Sep 18
Mars // Deborah Pritchard
Experiencing the landscape of Mars through NASA’s Curiosity Rover
24 Sep 18
Neptune // Laurence Crane
Neptune has an extra air of mystery
20 Sep 18
Saturn // Yazz Ahmed
Sound recordings from the Cassini spacecraft mission
19 Sep 18
Read the story behind Letters I Haven't Written
With the world full of so many stories where do you start?
17 Sep 18
JUPITER // Richard Bullen
Swirling clouds and rushing winds of Jupiter
17 Sep 18
EARTH // Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Who made the trees? Who made the universe? And the sunrise? I wonder how?
12 Sep 18
GWYNETH HERBERT'S Letter Of Note
“JUST DO” - Sol LeWitt
12 Sep 18
VENUS // Shiva Feshareki
Science / maths, spirituality, poetry and art heavily interact
05 Sep 18
Gwyneth Herbert's Letters Playlist
Al Green, David Bowie, Sarah Vaughan, plus more...
03 Sep 18
Mercury // Mira Calix
Raw data from satellite missions to Mercury turned into music
15 Aug 18
A Change is Gonna Come on BBC Radio 3, Jazz Now
Listen again to A Change is Gonna Come on Jazz Now
15 Aug 18
Meet the string quartet playing new music in planetariums
The Ligeti Quartet will premiere The Planets 2018
14 Aug 18
Planetary Playlist
Messiaen, Kraftwerk, Cage, plus many more chosen by the Ligeti Quartet
06 Jun 18
A Change is Gonna Come art print
Now available to buy
30 May 18
Four-star reviews and amazing audience comments!
A Change is Gonna Come May tour 2018
14 May 18
Inspiration playlist by Carleen Anderson
12 May 18
Inspiration Playlist by Renell Shaw
A Change is Gonna Come (No Change without Disturbance)
11 May 18
Blog: Music, as ever, can be, and is, a mighty tool
Carleen Anderson writes about why it's important for artists to address issues of social inequality
10 May 18
A Change is Gonna Come trailer now live!
WATCH an exclusive preview of Carleen Anderson singing I Ain’t Got No Home by Woody Guthrie
02 May 18
Inspiration playlist by Rod Youngs
Listen to James Brown, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, Billie Holiday and more
25 Apr 18
Blog: Kevin Le Gendre on protest music
Read our latest guest blog by Kevin Le Gendre
14 Feb 18
New project announcement! A Change Is Gonna Come
Music for Human Rights feat. Carleen Anderson, Nikki Yeoh, Speech Debelle, Nubya Garcia
07 Feb 18
Video game soundtracks performed live and loud by a 40-piece orchestra
PLAY! by The British Paraorchestra
24 Jan 18
Sound and light magically transforms Prior Park
Alight project film now live!
15 Jan 18
Alight! delights visitors in Bath
Sound and light trail in pictures
11 Dec 17
Sell out success for Alight!
Sold out
27 Nov 17
Meet Alight! Artist Ulf Pedersen
Discover more about our extraordinary Alight! artists
22 Nov 17
Keld: Freshwater Songs project film now live!
What happened when Kerry Andrew combined her passion for wild swimming with a love of gathering songs...
20 Nov 17
Meet audio-visual artist Wayne Binitie
Discover more about our extraordinary Alight! artists
13 Nov 17
Discover more about our extraordinary Alight! artists
Audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde
06 Nov 17
Sound UK Emerging Artist Award 2017 announced!
Emerging Artist Award 2017
30 Oct 17
Public acclaim for KELD
Audience comments from Keld: Freshwater Songs tour
02 Oct 17
KELD trailer now live!
Watch the trailer for KELD: Freshwater Songs
27 Sep 17
KELD picture gallery
Kerry's R&D trip to Devon, Cornwall, Barking and Wiltshire in pictures
25 Sep 17
Blog by Kerry Andrew
Discovering places, meeting people, gathering stories
25 Sep 17
Freshwater Playlist
A playlist by You Are Wolf
18 Sep 17
Listen Again: Irma on BBC Radio 3
Tom Phillips and Netia Jones on BBC Radio 3 Music Matters
06 Sep 17
The Wire preview Tom Phillips Irma: an opera
After five decades of work Tom Phillips prepares the definitive staging of his experimental opera Irma
01 Sep 17
Irma performances: Sold Out
Don't miss the daytime installation!
30 Aug 17
Discover more about Tom Phillips RA
A Humument
29 Aug 17
Irma: Creative Team
Discover more about Netia Jones and Anton Lukoszevieze
16 Aug 17
Irma: full cast announced!
Irma cast: Grenville, Irma, Nurse + Chorus
16 Aug 17
New project announcement!
Kerry Andrew / You Are Wolf
14 Aug 17
Drop Pipes
A pop up musical playground
14 Aug 17
Tom Phillips talks to The Guardian ahead of Irma next month
Interview
07 Aug 17
The Making of Irma
Directors blog - Netia Jones
07 Aug 17
Tongue Drums
A pop up musical playground
02 Aug 17
A pop up musical playground
Try out your music-making skills at Prior Park Landscape Garden
20 Jul 17
Emerging Artist commission opportunity
Create two new works for Alight! at Prior Park this winter
18 Jul 17
Shop: Limited Edition Tom Phillips print
Tom Phillips 'Our Lamplit History'
05 Jul 17
Crowdfund update
Thank you!
28 Jun 17
Sounding the Wood install
A pop up musical playground
19 Jun 17
Making of Sounding the Wood
The making of a musical playground...
08 Jun 17
Tom Phillips RA
Discover more about artist Tom Phillips
24 May 17
We have just launched our first crowdfunder campaign!
We need YOU to be part of Irma!
04 May 17
SONIC JOURNEY Hull2017
SONIC JOURNEY available for free download
20 Apr 17
Sound UK Live
View our Broadside Ballads photo gallery
20 Apr 17
Review: Quercus at Turner Sims
Jazz Journal review
12 Apr 17
The Height of the Reeds
Sound Uk artist works with Opera North on Hull Uk City of Culture 2017 project
08 Mar 17
Tyondai Braxton on BBC 6 Music
Listen Again: Freak Zone + Freakier Zone playlist
20 Feb 17
Discover more about broadsides
Read our latest blog post from Dr Meraud Ferguson Hand...
08 Feb 17
Broadside Ballads sneak peek
Take a sneak peek into the Bodleian Libraries' printing workshop
18 Jan 17
The Paper Cinema project film
In October 2016 The Paper Cinema brought to life local tales of the supernatural through live film and music
18 Jan 17
Broadside Ballads Artist insight
What's it like to delve into the Bodleian Libraries broadside ballads archive?
07 Dec 16
Broadside Ballads special guests announced!
Who are the guest musicians?
30 Nov 16
What is a Broadside Ballad?
Delve into the Bodleian Libraries digitial archive
29 Nov 16
Tyondai Braxton | Dawn of Midi on UK tour
Touring March 2017
23 Nov 16
Broadside Ballads tour announced!
Lisa Knapp, Sam Lee, Nathaniel Mann to collaborate
05 Oct 16
Ghost Stories trailer now live!
Check out the trailer for The Paper Cinema's new show Ghost Stories
20 Sep 16
Free live animation workshop with The Paper Cinema, Barking, 1 October
Free live animation workshop for 8 - 10 year olds based on a local ghost story
22 Aug 16
Beat post-Rio blues with this video!
Check out Kimmo Pohjonen and champion wrestlers in his 2012 show Accordion Wrestling
28 Jun 16
Huge fun with The Little Radio in Barking
The Little Radio project came to a triumphant close at the Broadway Theatre in Barking
28 Jun 16
Trailer for Sonic Journey: Gavin Bryars + Blake Morrison
Get a taste of Gavin Bryars + Blake Morrison's beautiful Sonic Journey 'The Stopping Train'
28 Jun 16
Fantastic press coverage for Sonic Journey: Gavin Bryars + Blake Morrison!
Read some of the amazing press coverage Gavin Bryars and Blake Morrison's Sonic Journey has achieved
28 Jun 16
Chasing the Whale tour film now online
Come aboard the Cutty Sark and relive some of the best bits of the tour...
16 Mar 16
Matthew Bourne interview about Memorymoog and more
We caught up with musician Matthew Bourne following the launch of his moogmemory album and tour with visual artist Michael England to discuss synthesisers, his approach to composition and much more
10 Mar 16
The Little Radio rural tour film now online
Watch this lovely film about our recent rural tour and workshop programme
03 Mar 16
Places of Worship - gallery of stills from Anastasia Isachsen's stunning video
Sneak preview of Anastasia Isachsen's sublime imagery for Places of Worship
17 Feb 16
Moogmemory trailer now live!
Stunning Moogmemory trailer now live
08 Jan 16
Moogmemory London premiere announced
London premiere at BFI Southbank announced for thrilling new collaboration
17 Dec 15
Not cold enough for Xmas?
Get your dose of winter magic courtesy of ice musician Terje Isungset
16 Dec 15
Martyn Ware shares his seaside memories
Acclaimed sound artist and pop legend Martyn Ware tells us about a donkey called Ringo and more...
17 Nov 15
The Little Radio on tour – last 2015 date 27 November
We had a fab few days with Iain Ballamy and Stian Carstensen last week who touched the hearts of all ages across...
15 Oct 15
National Poetry Day
As today is National Poetry Day we thought we would share a little bit more insight into...
20 Jun 15
SoundUK Arts awarded Strategic Touring funding!
ounduk is delighted to have been awarded a Strategic Touring grant by Arts Council England...
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