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28 April to 16 May 2025
The Engine Room – International Sound Art Competition and Exhibition This year’s finalists will present their work at Morley Gallery. The sound art exhibition offers audiences unique experiences in cutting-edge sound art in various forms – including audio works, audiovisual pieces, interactive installations, and sound sculptures. The winners of this year’s competition will be announced […]
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25 March 2025
The Engine Room presents: No Home, FROST, and Chris Tosic for an evening of sonic experimentation that pushes at the boundaries of sound art and music. No Home is the London based artist, Charlotte Valentine who has been making music for almost a decade. Described as a ‘punk producer’ and ‘DIY experimental artist’ by the […]
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10 December 2024
Book Tickets The Engine Room presents: Dale Cornish; Haunted Network Research Initiative & Patricia Auchterlonie; and Olivia McCannon for an evening of sonic experimentation that pushes at the boundaries of sound art and music. Native South Londoner Dale Cornish explores the edges of and similarities between experimental music, electroacoustic and dance music. Since being part […]
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18 July - 1 August 2024
The Engine Room: Resonances features the work of Morley Sound Art students. This exhibition covers a range of themes with works encompassing fixed media, audio, video, interactivity and sound sculpture. Through collected, sampled, and manipulated sound, the exhibition aims to provide audiences with a novel perspective on sound. The exhibition will take place from the […]
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9 July 2024
Book Tickets The Engine Room presents: angela wai nok hui, Lucia H Chung and M.E.L.T for an evening of experimentation that pushes at the boundaries of sound art and music. angela wai nok hui is a percussionist, sound designer and multidisciplinary artist based in London and Hong Kong. She is dedicated to new music and […]
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25 March 2024
The Engine Room presents: Kate Carr, whose body is this, and Colin Thelermont for an evening of experimental music and sound. Immerse yourself in a night of intimate soundscapes, pulsating synths, live visuals, and sonic innovation that pushes at the boundaries of sound art and music. Kate Carr’s practice is focused on the textures and […]
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24 April – 18 May 2023
The Engine Room 2023 exhibition took place from 24 April – 18 May 2023 at the Morley Gallery, London and showcased some of the selected works from The Engine Room Sound Art Competition. 19 incredible works were selected and presented alongside the premier of a new work by Guest Artist and Prize Winner (2015) Andrea […]
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6 – 17 June 2022
After a three year pause due to pandemic closures and Morley Gallery renovations, The Engine Room is back with a new sound art exhibition: The Engine Room – Reboot, featuring works from the Sound Art students at Morley (past and present) plus a very special work by Tim Murray-Brown commissioned and premiered by The Engine […]
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5 - 24 October 2019
For this edition, we collaborated with IKLECTIK, in their fifth anniversary, in a celebration of all things experimental. This year 18 finalists were selected from of over 160 submissions by a panel of judges including Scanner, Kate Carr and Eduard Sol For The Engine Room 2019 instead of commissioning a work IKLECTIK helped us curate […]
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The Engine Room Record Label (TERM Records) launches with its first release TERM001: SAMPLING HOLST The tracks on this compilation were selected from over seventy submissions to the ‘SAMPLING HOLST’ competition, which encouraged the creation of new electronic works in any genre or discipline, based on samples taken from ‘The Planets’ by Gustav Holst. The […]
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30 June 2018
SAMPLING HOLST ‘SAMPLING HOLST’, a competition ran by The Engine Room as part of Morley’s The Planets Festival, helped celebrate 100 years since the premiere of the ground-breaking classical orchestral work ‘The Planets’ by Gustav Holst, Director of Music at Morley College London at the time. The competition received over 60 works from around the […]
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3 - 13 June 2018
THE ENGINE ROOM PRESENTS – SOUND ARTISTS FROM MORLEY In this exhibition (3 Jun-13 Jun 2018), students from the Sound Art courses at Morley displayed some of their creations. Some of the works presented in this exhibition originated from class exercises, with many expanded into more developed concepts and artworks. The exhibition showcased a variety of […]
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2 - 5 November 2017
Post-Truth and Beauty from Tim Murray-Browne on Vimeo. The Engine Room 2017 guest artist Tim Murray-Browne is presenting his commissioned work Post-Truth and Beauty at the We are Robots Festival between November 2-5, 2017 at the Old Truman Brewery. Post-Truth and Beauty – Engine Room 2017 Commission Post-Truth and Beauty creates an immediate sensory analogue of the evolving, […]
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4 May - 1 June 2017
This year’s competition attracted over 130 works from 33 countries from around the world, including France, Mexico, Portugal, South Korea, Finland, and the United States, as well as several UK artists. 20 finalists were selected by a panel of judges The Wire publisher Tony Herrington, sound artist and composer Dr Annie Mahtani, and sound artist Janek […]
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5 - 18 February 2016
The Engine Room presented: SAM (Sound Artists from Morley) between 5-18 February 2016. In this exhibition, students from the Sound Art class at Morley had the opportunity to present some of the works they have developed during the course. The exhibition showcased a variety of approaches to Sound Art including audio visual works, sound sculptures, graphic […]
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12 May - 12 June 2015
‘The Engine Room – International Sound Art Competition & Exhibition’ was our first international competition, open to emerging sound artists regardless of country of residence, nationality or age and focused on new works in the broad field of Sound Art. The jury panel included electroacoustic composer Professor Simon Emmerson and sound artists Ray Lee and […]
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27 February - 12 March 2014
The Engine Room 2014 presented sound art works from six students from the Sound Art class at Morley College. The students presented two audio works, a graphic score and an installation/sound sculpture, all of which were developed over the course of three terms.
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23 November - 11 December 2011
In 2011, Morley College marked the 75th anniversary of the birth, and 30th of the death, of one of its more influential former tutors, Cornelius Cardew, considered by many as the founder of British experimental music, with a series of courses, events, and exhibitions. As part of this series of events the first Engine Room International […]
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