Auris brings a new listening experience to Manchester as the city’s first dedicated sound art festival. It invites us to tune into our sense of sound, bringing people together through an artistic programme that presents new ideas, uncovers histories and challenges perspectives.

Taking place 9–11 October, the festival profiles some of the most distinctive and exciting voices in contemporary sound art, uncovering the many ways sound can be experienced.

Expect three days of installations, performances, spatial audio, talks, workshops, soundwalks and more

Performances
Francisco López / Lee Patterson / Lola de la Mata / Nik Colk Void / Ryoko Akama / Robin The Fog / WEȽ∝KER

Installations
Kamila Narysheva / Vicky Clarke / Wajid Yaseen

Spatial Audio
Brona Martin / Text-Sound-Art / Miko Tchórzewski / Markus Decker / Bernard Kelly / Totaleee / Nye Parry / Cameron Taylor / Scald / Horse Lords / Arconic Sound / Jose Macabra / Mick Harris

Talks / Workshops
Emma Margetson / Hannah Kemp-Welch / Mark Wagner / Signkid / Kate Carr / Iain Chambers / Jez riley French / Matt Barnard

Soundwalks
Maya Chowdhry / Markus Hetheier / Hayley Suviste / Ryan Woods

The festival takes place within some of Manchester’s most distinctive and iconic spaces, bringing sound art into buildings that have been shaped by a history of industry, science and innovation. Unfolding across the Anthony Burgess Foundation, a converted 19th-century mill space that once housed the machinery of the industrial revolution; SEESAW, a century-old Grade II listed former textile warehouse; The Renold Building at Sister, a brutalist space of great importance to the city’s scientific and technological past and future; and SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University’s pioneering centre for digital arts.

Early bird tickets have now sold out, but weekend passes are available now starting at £60, day tickets start at £22.50 and individual event tickets from £10.
For the full day by day programme and booking information, visit aurisfestival.com

Auris is developed by Modus Arts, an award-winning Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, funded by Arts Council England and supported by Resonance FM and The Wire, and is part of The Cultural Welcome, a special week of student events around the Oxford Road Corridor, Manchester’s Knowledge Quarter.

Lee Patterson – Photo by Natasa Serec
Caption: Artist Lee Patterson at Samo Kutin’s hay loft, Bucno Festival, Lesno Brdo, Slovenia