Come and explore the mysterious sounds of pond life. This is a practical workshop takes place at a local pond, to record underwater sounds using hydrophones, and to understand some of the technology and acoustics involved in underwater recording.
There would be a fair bit of physical activity, throwing microphones into the water.

Jo Hutton has worked as a recording engineer for BBC radio and music since 2000.
Her art practice as a sound creative, she tells stories about changing environments, abstracting speech and field recordings relating to a particular social or political concept and borrowing audio processing techniques from the experimental composers who worked in pre-digital analogue studios.
Her work has been shown at the Museum of London, Tower Bridge exhibition centre, Tate Modern Shorts, and played on BBC Radio 3, Channel 4. My re-mix track ‘Carbon Cycle’ appeared on Hannah Peel’s 2021 Mercury nominated album ‘Fir Wave’. In 2020 she completed a PhD on the work of electroacoustic experimental composers Beatriz Ferreyra, Éliane Radigue, Delia Derbyshire and Teresa Rampazzi, which focusses on their methods for creating new electronic sound material in the pre-digital analogue studios of the 1960s and early 1970s. She is a regular writer for The Wire and Electronic Sound and contributor for Contemporary Music Review, Organised Sound and Berlin’s ‘Positionen’ journals.

FESTIVAL PASS HOLDERS ONLY
BOOKING REQUIRED: 4 x 40 minutes (6 people for each 40 min slot)