Teaching/Workshops

Apr 072016

Here you will find a selection of educational projects with students and other young people as well as workshops and such like. For a full list please see Iris CV.

LCC BA (Hons) Sound Arts and Design & MA

Nov 122015

Iris has been teaching sound installation on the BA Sonic Art at London College of Communication since 2009. Find some of the student’s installation works from 2011 onwards here: http://lccinstallations.tumblr.com.

She also acts as a final portfolio tutor for 3rd year BA students, delivers lectures about the relationship between sound and vision, and shares her experience of curating and producing events with Sprawl with MA Sound Arts students.

Six Pillars residency

Aug 172013

Here a few images from a masterclass for Six Pillars residents, exploring the far edges of software sound sculpting: https://www.facebook.com

Remembering Worlds

Jun 072013

A 9-channel sound piece made for the BeOpen Sound Portal as part of Sounding Space

By Iris Garrelfs with Charlotte Rose Desborough, Robbie Judkins and Peter McKerrow

Sound Portal Designer Stephen Philips said in an interview that the main inspiration for the design of the structure was Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Coincidentally London College of Communication holds the Stanley Kubrick archive and when combined with a love of sci-fi in general this seemed the perfect embarkation point for the sound artists’ sonic explorations.

Remembering Worlds builds on these influences and creates a journey in sound and space. The piece weaves together memories from the Kubrick Inner Circle oral history project at the archive with more personal ones to the piece’s creators, intersected with sounds that primarily live in cultural imagination: those of alien landings, titan battles and human exploration.

The result is a playful narrative that comments on perceptions of imagining future and past, whilst folding these into the act of listening.

Here a stereo compression of the installation

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For more documentation click here.

MA Listening and Aurality

May 172013

I am contributing sound installation workshops to the MA Listening and Aurality at Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

2013: find some images here http://www.flickr.com/
2012: find some images here http://www.flickr.com

Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships

Nov 112011

Over the years, Iris has worked as an artist as well as Creative Agent for the Creative Partnerships programme, most recently as part of the Royal Opera House. This involved curating and brooking creative research projects with a number of schools. Individual documentation to come.

Changing Spaces

Jul 122005

Changing Spaces was an evenings commissioned by Creative Partnership London North exploring creative learning environments and how we use and react to space. All the evenings combine discussion and experimental exploration. On this occasion participants were invited to transform an uninspiring space into an inspiring one. It involved string, screams and a lot of fun. […]

Just Desserts

Sep 122003

Just Desserts at Entry, an action research project into lifelong learning in West Bromwich, UK, commissioned by The Public (formerly Jubilee Arts), involving workshops with school children and residents of an old-people’s home, culminating in a 4-channel audio environment. July-August 2003. Click the image for more.