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

The Sunday Day Pass gives you access to the final day of Auris, withLola de la Mata (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/lola-de-la-mata),Ryoko Akama (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/ryoko-akama) andWEȽ∝KER (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme) among the programme across Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor.

Sunday Day Pass: £30 | Student & Low Income: £22.50

Sunday 11 October 2026

11:00–20:00 (doors open 10:00)

Locations: SEESAW, The Anthony Burgess Foundation, The Renold Building at SISTER and SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University

SUNDAY PROGRAMME

Performances

On the final day of Auris,Lola de la Mata (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/lola-de-la-mata) brings her custom-built Tacet Friction Harp to the festival with TAC(I)ET: and implied silence.Ryoko Akama (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/ryoko-akama) presents shimatsu (始末), an intimate performance using objects, domestic appliances and electronic devices, before WEȽ∝KER close the festival with an enhanced quadrophonic live performance built around highly improvised systems.

Talks & Workshops

Jez riley French (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/jez-riley-french) opens Sunday with Choreographies of Perception, an informal talk exploring extended technologies, durational listening and sounds often outside human attention. Kamila Narysheva and Vicky Clarke (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/kamila-narysheva-vicky-clarke-and-niki-colclough) explore the sonic and historical legacy of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan through an artist talk, archival material and film screening. Emma Margetson (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/emma-margetson) presents Diffuse Architectures: Sound, Space, and the IKO loudspeaker, using the twenty-faced IKO loudspeaker as a spatial instrument to explore the relationship between sound, architecture and perception.

Soundwalk

Maya Chowdhry (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/maya-chowdhry) leads Sonic Shadows, a creative soundwalk using microphones and biodata sonification to uncover hidden sounds, textures and resonances across Manchester's landscape.

Installations

Kamila Narysheva and Vicky Clarke's T ½ (Half-Life), examining post-nuclear landscapes through sound and field recordings from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site.

Spatial Audio

A curatedspatial audio listening programme (https://www.aurisfestival.com/programme/spatial-audio) runs alongside the day's live events, featuring recorded work from Brona Martin, Text-Sound-Art, Miko Tchórzewski, Marcus Decker, Bernard Kelly, Totaleee, Horse Lords, Nye Parry, Cameron Naylor, Arconic Sound, Scald, Jose Macabra and Mick Harris.

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

Please note: Some Auris soundwalks and workshops take place in spaces with limited capacity. Registration for limited events is required. Links to registration will be shared ahead of the festival.

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