First time that White Noise took place at the Royal College of Art’s Battersea Campus inside the Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre. The lecture theatre is particularly good for showing projected works in combination with sound ofocurse. The soud system in there is meant to be used for lectures yet worked quite well for live performance also thanks to the accoustics in the space which are good.

We had a few people performing with an important return of Barney Kass who was particpating at White Noise right from the day it was founded. He did a live audiovisual performance with AI-generated visuals. The AI was fed questions and statements based on neurodivergent people’s sensory experiences of the world. The music ranged from ambient to percussive electronic music.

Susan Atwill took everyone close up to the stage with a very intimate performance. She took the audience along a story in which the borders between reality and speculation were undefined.