New Sounds Festival 2026

Discover hidden sounds outdoors: workshop with Kathy Hinde, focussing on using specialist microphones in outdoor environments. This event features a soundwalk around campus, and participatory workshop activities working with unusual microphones (e.g. hydrophones, geophones, contact mics). Participating artists will develop their recording techniques (including methods of using microphones like instruments) and explore the possibilities for outdoor sound recording in their own creative practice.

This event is presented as part of the New Sounds Festival 2026, in partnership with the International Concert Series 2025-26 - VOX HUMANA - at Royal Holloway.

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This interactive workshop has a limit of 12 participants. If you would like to be involved and are available for the session date/times, please complete this simple form.

Prior booking is essential. 

About the performers

Kathy Hinde is an artist and composer whose practice embraces open methods and evolving processes. Through installations, performances and site specific experiences, she aims to nurture a deeper and more embodied connection to the more-than-human world. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented musical instruments. She creates pieces in response to specific locations and frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process.