Join us for hands-on workshops presented by Union House Theatre & George Paton Gallery, led by sound scholar Hayden Ryan. Explore the intersection of sound, space, and culture, with a focus on acoustic, digital, and spatial design. RSVP now for 9th & 16th April sessions in the Arts Lab.
Presented by Union House Theatre & George Paton Gallery
Workshop 1: Wednesday 9 April, 1-2.30
Workshop 2: Wednesday 16 April, 1-2.30
Where: Arts Lab, Meet at the Arts Lab, Level 1, Arts and Cultural Building, Monash Road, Building 159 (MAP), next to the George Paton Gallery.
RSVP HERE
These workshops will offer participants a set of tools which will allow them to work with and assess sound from a creative, scientific and critical perspective.
As we study sound and the way it behaves under both acoustic and digital conditions, we open ourselves up to a new range of design approaches that can assist us in modelling our own sonic objects and the ways in which they engage with space.
We will cover the fundamentals of acoustic and digital signals, useful audio effects and analysis tools, spatial techniques as well as as non-traditional understandings of sound and space.
The goal of the workshops is to provide you with the fundamental knowledge in sound and spatial design that will guide you along your future sonic practice.
Hayden Ryan is a Yuin First Nations sound scholar and artist from the south east coast of New South Wales, currently residing in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). His work centres Indigenous sonic and spatial practice, a concept that realises the inextricability of land, body sound and culture within Indigenous knowledge systems. The role of sound and space within cultural practice has been disrupted by the colonial project, Hayden’s work aims at utilising sound technologies in order to recentre these epistemological structures.
Hayden recently completed a Master of Music in Music Technology at New York University, where he wrote his thesis on Indigenising Sound Recording. Hayden is currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University, where he is working on a PhD in Design in the SIAL Sound Studios. Hayden’s research foregrounds the importance of cultural space, in attempt to formulate a robust framework that allows sonic and spatial aspects of culture to play a prominent role in land and heritage protection.
In August 2025, Hayden will be a resident artist at the Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) in Finland.
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Presented with Union House Theatre