Conservatory Programme
The Experiments in Utopia Conservatory Programme is free, but ticketed. Reserve your entry before your visit.
Sippin’ T - A Time for Exploration & Connection
12pm-2pm and 3pm-5pm
Step inside the conservatory where we're holding space for exploration and togetherness, where there'll be prompts for conversation. Sippin' T will provide an atmospheric backdrop through a recorded sound journey designed to help you slow down and attune to your body's subtle cues. Through a fusion of electronic music, guided meditation and tarot insights, these sessions encourage deep rest, release and realignment.
As you settle in, sound becomes a tool for awareness – dissolving tension, unlocking emotions and restoring balance. Each vibration invites you to notice where ease flows, where resistance lingers, and how your body responds in the present moment. This is more than a passive listening experience – it's an opportunity to shift from thinking to sensing, from holding to softening. Come breath, release and let sound guide you back to yourself. Supported by sound curated by Wavefield.
Augustine Leudar: Museum of Consciousness
2pm-3pm
Following an introductory talk by Carl Hayden Smith, The Museum of Consciousness presents a live, surround sound, ambient noise set by Augustine Leudar. Interactive, experimental and ambient, this quadraphonic and surreal set features field recordings from the Amazon which will include dreamlike sonic textures manipulated in 3D space using sensors to make an ethereal and interactive sonic collage.
The Singing Village: CircleSong Workshop Sharing
5pm
Participants of the The Singing Village: CircleSong Workshop, held in the Garden Room between 4pm and 5pm (tickets £6-£12) present this sharing where voices, rhythm, movement, play and ritual are brought together to strengthen community and share the spontaneous roots of collective song, where every voice is valued.
Experiments in Utopia Readings
5.30pm-6pm
The co-curators of Experiments in Utopia, Nick Hadfield and Susanna Davies-Crook, will read aloud their writing, fictions and inspirations for this day of programming, in a literary, ambient sound and spoken weaving on utopian imaginaries.
Scratchproof Orchestra: 'c0ncert0 f0r uncens0red v0ices'
6pm–7pm
Join in this listening game that promotes dialogue between the disparate voices in our communities. Calling to each other from different parts of the conservatory, players from different ensembles come together to find a new collective voice.
Scratchproof Orchestra is a mini orchestra of orchestras directed by Hforspirit, featuring Engin Eskici (Om Ensemble), Txema González (ACA), Boyan Ivanov (Hastings Philharmonic), Jack Jones (The Listening Project), Charlotte Keefe (The Listening Project) & James Larter (World Orchestra).
Hforspirit is an artist working primarily with sound and the collective unconscious, conducting large scale happenings evoking a ritual catharsis. They have exhibited at The White Hotel, ICA, V&A, Sadlers Wells, Turner Contemporary, Camden Arts Centre and Lisson Gallery, London.
