Day tickets are now on sale for Auris, Manchester's first dedicated sound art festival!

The Friday Day Pass gives you a full day to explore Auris, with a programme spanning immersive installations, live performances, talks, workshops and more.

Date: 09/10/2026

Locations: SEESAW, The Anthony Burgess Foundation, The Renold Building – SISTER, and SODA – School of Digital Arts, Manchester

Doors Open: 10:30

Event starts: 12:30

Event Ends: 22:00

FRIDAY PROGRAMME

Performances

Experience Nik Colk Void’s solo performance, presented in Manchester for the very first time, bringing together voice, beats, synthesis and real-time sample manipulation. Robin The Fog presents Cast Your Tape To The Wind, a beautifully messy hybrid of sound installation and performance, using Howlround reel-to-reel machines.

Talks & Workshops

Auris' workshop programme opens with Foley Nights, a participatory workshop where the audience becomes the sound designers for the screen, or explore vibration, frequency and visual patterns in Mark Wagner's Cymatics workshop.

Hannah Kemp-Welch introduces The Listening Glossary, defining the language of sound and the many ways of listening, and The Manchester Ear duo, Hayley Suviste and Ryan Woods, undertake a deep listening walk along Manchester's canals and waterways.

Throughout the day, Dorkbot Manchester and KMR Audio host participatory sessions, inviting audiences to get hands-on with live electronic instruments and interfaces.

Installations

Explore immersive sound installations on display across the festival: Wajid Yaseen's Seven Sisters, a participatory sound installation incorporating vintage test oscillators; and Kamila Narysheva and Vicky Clarke's T ½ Half Life, examining post-nuclear landscapes through sound and field recordings from Semipalatinsk Polygon.

Spatial Audio

A curated spatial audio listening programme runs alongside the day's live events, featuring recorded work from Brona Martin, Text-Sound-Art, Miko Tchórzewski, Markus Decker, Bernard Kelly, Totaleee, Nye Parry, Cameron Taylor, Scald, Horse Lords, Arconic Sound, Jose Macabra, and Mick Harris.

If you’d like to learn more about Auris and discover our full weekend programme, visit the Auris website for more information. Weekend passes are still on sale, priced at £80 (with reduced-price Weekend Pass for students and those from low-income households, priced at £60)

** Some Auris soundwalks will take place in spaces with limited capacity. Registration for limited events will be required in order to attend. Links to registration will be shared two weeks before the event.

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