John Metcalfe' Monomedia series at Kings Place, London

John Metcalfe curates listening experiences in the dark at London’s Kings Place

Current Society of Sound artist and multi-talented composer/producer John Metcalfe has curated Monomedia: a series of concerts where the invited musicians will play their entire sets in the dark. In… Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Categories: Events, Events and shows, Live music, Music
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LEAP after the Great Ecstasy

Sound Artist Melanie Manchot on Janet Cardiff

Artist Melanie Manchot‘s new show, LEAP after The Great Ecstasy, featuring Bowers & Wilkins speakers, opens today at CARSLAW St* Lukes. Here she talks about sound artist Janet Cardiff and… Read more

Posted on: Saturday, 20 Apr 2013
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03.03.13.Barbican Weekender. Brainwaves with Welcome Trust

Bowers & Wilkins at Barbican Brain Waves Weekender

Sound artists James Bulley and Daniel Jones explain how they came to create a unique sound installation using Bowers & Wilkins speakers at London’s Barbican Centre. “As an artist duo… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 11 Mar 2013
Categories: Events, Hi-fi speakers, Speakers

The Pilgrimage Project at Wiltons Music Hall, London

Bowers & Wilkins at Wilton’s Music Hall, London 2012

The Pilgrimage Project was a unique four-room performance installation at Wilton’s Music Hall, one of the London’s oldest music halls. The project utilised a series of Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 10 Dec 2012
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Bowers & Wilkins at Royal Opera House Africa Weekend, Deloitte Ignite 2012 event

Bowers & Wilkins at the Royal Opera House as part of Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend

Deloitte Ignite returned for its fifth year with a free contemporary arts festival curated by internationally renowned artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. In typically eclectic fashion, Shonibare pulled together filmmakers, musicians,… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 10 Sep 2012
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Plasticity at the BFI using Bowers & Wilkins CCM682 in-wall speakers

Lovely film of Plasticity installation at British Film Institute

In November, our speakers were integral to an interactive audio-visual installation, ‘Plasticity’ for the 2011 onedotzero ‘Adventures in Motion’ festival at the BFI Southbank, London. Here the sound artists describe… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 12 Jan 2012
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Daphne Oram's Oramics Machine

Wonderful video on pioneering Oramics synthesizer

Oramics from Nick Street on Vimeo. A brief glimpse of Daphne Oram’s pioneering and unique Oramics synthesizer, designed in 1957 after she left the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop to pursue… Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011
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Bowers & Wilkins P5s at Soundfields

Bowers & Wilkins P5 headphones and Soundfields

Soundfields is a unique electronic musical exploration. Collaborating with musician and composer, Chris Clark, Blast Theory have developed an interactive application that traces your movement. Armed with Bowers & Wilkins… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 2 Jun 2011
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Tod_Machover

Unique TEDx event with Society of Sound’s Tod Machover

  Part of the inspirational Tedx event at Aldeburgh Music, Spheres & Splinters was a unique collaboration between MIT legend and Society of Sound Fellow Tod Machover, cellist Peter Gregson… Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 16 Mar 2011
Categories: Events, Sound Lab, The future of sound
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