WIRED Online: A Young Person's Guide to Sound Art

A free online music technology course for girls, women and minority gender young people aged 11-18.

This is a course designed to introduce you to sound art: art that is not just visible, it's audible too. Over six sessions you will explore artworks in three broad areas: experimental, environmental and ecological sound art. Delivered via Zoom, each session will include short presentations from the course tutor and a mix of practical exercises involving listening, looking, making and discussing.

Open to girls, young women, non-binary people and other marginalised genders aged 11-18 years old. Priority will be given to those living in Yorkshire, but the course open to those elsewhere.

How to apply
To apply for a place on WIRED Online: A Young Person's Guide to Sound Art, visit YSWN's website at buff.ly/3R8XHJe and download the form at the end of the news piece, or email info@yorkshiresoundwomen.com to request one.

About the course leader
Amy Beeston is a sound artist and audio researcher living in Orkney. She has a background incorporating both artistic and scientific studies of sound, focused on human and machine listening throughout. Initially studying physics before switching to a degree in music technology, she went on to gain a masters in sonology at The Hague’s Royal Conservatoire and a computer science PhD in the Speech and Hearing Research Group at the University of Sheffield. This interdisciplinary approach has allowed her to collaborate widely with artists, scientists, educators, business people and clinicians.

While living in Sheffield, she co-founded SONA and Yorkshire Sound Women Network, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield and in Music Psychology at the University of Leeds.

She moved to Orkney with her family in 2018 and her first solo exhibition, Stone Fringe Sound, was presented at Northlight Gallery in 2019.

WIRED is funded and supported by Youth Music.

For more information visit http://buff.ly/3R8XHJe