Join Modus Arts at Sandbox, an open and informal gathering where leading sound practitioners share their latest work and meet fellow sound artists.

On 20th November, we are excited to launch the series in Manchester at the Anthony Burgess Foundation.

In this edition, Kathy Hinde will present her new work-in-progress Magnetic Resonance, a trio of illuminated sonic pendulums set into motion by the invisible push and pull of magnetic fields.

Kathy will also share insights into her making process and the inspirations behind the piece, drawn from the mysterious ways birds and other migratory species navigate using the Earth’s faint magnetic field. Despite decades of research, the mechanism remains elusive: current theories suggest a light-sensitive process in the eye, linked to the cryptochrome gene, where quantum entanglement may guide the journey.

Magnetic Resonance was developed and supported on a research residency at iii (Instrument inventors) in The Hague, NL during spring 2024 with further development from Arts Council England DYCP programme.

Vicky Clarke (aka SONAMB) is a Modus Arts Assosciate Artist. She is a sound and electronic media artist from Manchester, UK, whose work explores materiality, electrical phenomena and ritual. Her current work, Latent Spaces is her first solo installation, and marks the third in a series of works exploring machine learning and musique concréte.

Wajid Yaseen is founder and director of Modus Arts a National Portfolio Organisation with Arts Council England drawing on interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to developing public-facing sound-based artworks and events, encompassing installations, live performances, acousmatic musics, sound sculpture, sound archives, oral histories, and workshops.

Kathy Hinde is an audiovisual artist inspired by behaviours and phenomena found in nature and the everyday expressed through audiovisual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented instruments. She frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process.

Kathy has toured work across Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Colombia, Australia and New Zealand. Awards include an Ivor Novello Award for Sound Art 2020, an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2015, a British Composer Award in Sonic Art 2017, an ORAM award 2017, a Scottish Award for New Music 2018 for Collaboration with Maja Ratkje. Kathy was a selected artist for European SHAPE Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art in 2018, is a member of Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF).