Sound Artist Residencies
Sound Artist Residency 2027
2027Applications have now closed.
If selected, you will receive:
- 3 days exclusive use of our mobile Immersive Audio Lab including free access to specialist spatial audio technical support.
- £1500 Artist stipend to fund your time, travel and subsistence on the residency.
- Public exhibition of your work-in-progress developed during the residency as an artist's talk at our Immersive Audio Network Festival on 29th January 2027 at the Arnolfini in Bristol, UK.
The residency will take place in-person in Bristol in an accessible venue over 3 days between 15th and 21st January 2027 on 3 days that suit you the artist best agreed with our Network's technical team in advance.
Please note we are unable to provide individual feedback on each submitted application.
w/c 2nd November 2026: the recipient will be contacted to confirm their acceptance of the funded residency.
This sound artist residency is supported by MyWorld, The Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) at Bath Spa University and our Immersive Audio Network.
Emika
2026Performed at the inaugural Immersive Audio Network Festival in 2026.
Spatial solo piano experimentations, which were later showcased at SXSW London.
Website: https://www.emikarecords.com/
Nikki Sheth
2025Visualising Nocturnal Soundscapes, which later premiered at Bath Digital Festival.
Worked as a technician and short course tutor for IAN.
Ximena Alarcón & Ulf A.S. Holbrook
2024 We awarded our Immersive Audio Network Sound Artist Residency to Ximena Alarcón, a Sonic Migrations Artist, working in collaboration with Oslo-based composer and spatial audio researcher Ulf A. S. Holbrook.
The sound artist residency funded their sound work: Unravelling. It was based on recordings of eight different Colombian migrant women expressing their own migratory journeys in Spanish and English, as well as responding to fragments of an oral archive with testimonies collected by the organisation Diaspora Women in 2018.
The sound work was a reflection on their multilayered responses and synchronicities that weave a fragmented history of migration and conflict. This sound work existed both as a sound installation and as a concert piece, allowing for different modes of presentation.
Ximena and Ulf explored how people could experience the installation involving responses to the listener's body in movement, either with an array of speakers or also considering headphone listening and experimenting with Head-Tracking for Audio, integrating it with Ximena's Intimal App.
The finished work toured as an installation at Centro de la Memoria Histórica in Colombia, performed at art spaces such as Iklektik and Cafe Oto in London, as well as Dareshack in Bristol. It was also a Resident talk at The Studio in Bath and featured at festivals and conferences internationally.
"Valle de Cocora" in Colombia. The palm is Colombia's national tree called "Palma de Cera del Quindío". Photo credit: Ron Herrema.