Sound + Environment Symposium 2025 - Call for Works

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Sound + Environment Symposium 2025

4th – 6th September 2025

Call for Papers, Workshops and Art Works

The  Sound  +  Environment  Research Group at Newcastle University welcomes papers, workshops and art work contributions from a broad range of scholars and practitioners for the inaugural symposium 4th – 6th September 2025. The theme of the symposium aligns with the aims of the Sound + Environment Research Group, set-up to bring together researchers working across arts and sciences to explore the ways that sound can deepen our understanding of environments and the communities inhabiting them. For example, recent developments in the field of ecoacoustics are proving fruitful in assessing ecosystem change. Sound and listening are also increasingly used to monitor built structures and to inform urban and rural landscape design. We can use sound for scientific and artistic exploration, to inform and expand our knowledge of environments and our relationships to the world around us. Sound can inform a range of innovative interventions and solutions to problems. Through exploring scientific and artistic approaches together, we engage with sound and listening to create complementary ways of investigating, understanding, and taking action.

We welcome contributions from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

Acoustic Space and psychoacoustics
Acoustic Ecology
Acoustic Communities
Place-related Composition (soundscape, electroacoustic, acoustic, improvisation)
Creative Intervention
Community Engagement
Data Sonification
Sense of Place
Identity
Social, Cultural and Environmental Sustainability
Heritage and Memory
Ecoacoustics
Environmental aesthetics
Environmental politics (policy/legislation)
Soundscape Ecology
Bioacoustics
Structural monitoring
Psychogeography
Urban design and planning
Environmental Health
Experience and Phenomenology
Sonic Perception
Sound Art
Text Scores
Audio Archives

Contributions can be in a variety of formats including formal papers, performances, installations, soundwalks and workshops.

Please upload abstracts of no more than 200 words, along with a title, link to relevant media, author affiliation and email address to the relevant form below by Friday 29th May. Potential authors will be notified of outcomes by Friday 27th June.

Paper Submission Form

Workshop Submission Form

Creative Work Submission Form

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact the organising committee:

Dr Rob Mackay (rob.m...@newcastle.ac.uk )

Dr Tatiana Alvares-Sanchez (tatiana.alv...@newcastle.ac.uk)

Dr Usue Ruiz Arana (usue.ru...@newcastle.ac.uk )

The Sound + Environment Research Group sits within the Centre for Landscape and the Institute for Creative Arts Practice at Newcastle University.

Dr Rob Mackay PhD MMus BSc SFHEA

Senior Lecturer in Composition

Chair - UKISC (UK and Ireland Soundscape Community)

Co-Director Sound + Environment Research Group