09 March - 26 April 2023 Free entrance booking advised here In Listening to Dark Matter, artist investigator, Rebecca Collins (1982), invites engagement with scientific uncertainty by staging a series of imaginative encounters with dark matter, an invisible yet abundant particle present in our everyday lives. Notoriously difficult to detect, scientists use technologically engineered advanced […]
Detectives of the Invisible: Towards a Cosmological Listening or How to Hear Elusive Particles
Rebecca was invited by curator Isabel De Naverán to contribute a three-hour seminar session as part of the ‘Collective Grief and Planetary Grief’ study group at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. The session focused on the ongoing mysteries of our Universe and considered what it might take to have a sensory feel for new […]
Artistic Research meets Scientific Research
Rebecca Collins was invited to speak at the Winter Meeting of Astrophysics in La Laguna, Tenerife on unconventional research strategies and encounters operating between artistic research and scientific research. This forms part of her ongoing research project, ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) November, 2022.
Listening to Dark Matter
Our Universe contains vast amounts of a new form of matter that neither emits nor absorbs light. We do not know the nature of this mysterious “dark matter”, despite having been postulated more than a hundred years ago. Its search in different types of experiments has meant a revolution in particle physics, since it shows […]
Art & Science: Artistic Research & Sound Art
Rebecca Collins is presenting findings from her ongoing research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) as part of Science Week in Madrid at the Residencia de Estudiantes. She will share ongoing work, opening her notebooks to the wider public, to give insights into what has been going on since installing herself in B14, an office […]
The Listening Academy, Bergen 2022
Rebecca shared extracts from her current research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) at The Listening Academy in Bergen following an invitation from Brandon Labelle. The event, unfolding over three days in the harbour area of the city at ‘The Unfinished Institute’ felt like a timely reminder of the role of listening across a variety […]
Membranes, Microphones, Hydrophones & Particles
The second of four interdisciplinary seminars with Spanish National Radio presenter, Miguel Álvarez-Fernández and leader of acoustic research for astro particle detection, Miquel Ardid. Video documentation of the session forthcoming.
Postcards from the Ongoing Investigation: Stolen Voices with Jan Mertens 2020 Lights Out Listening Group Podcast
‘Postcards from the ongoing Investigation’, a track Stolen Voices (Rebecca Collins & Johanna Linsely) recorded for the album 001 with Jan Mertens (released in 2019) recently featured in a stunning lockdown lineup for the Lights Out Listening Group. Lights Out Listening Group is a unique listening event that takes place in almost complete darkness. Normally, […]
Words, Spaces and Audio-Based Performance on Ars Sonora, RNE (Spanish Sound Art Radio Program), April 2020
Ars Sonora is a radio program solely dedicated to Sound Art transmitted weekly on Spanish National Radio (RNE) on their Classical Music Channel. In 2019, I was invited by Miguel Álvarez-Fernández to speak about the ‘Stolen Voices’ album this informed the first program (see earlier blog post). In 2020, Miguel invited me back to the […]
Her East Coast Vibe: Notes on an Album Launch 08 February 2020
Stolen Voices HQ (aka Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley) sent a communication to Fan Riot (aka Owen G. Parry) with a MISSION to write a response following the London launch of the Stolen Voices Album. This is what we received: A conceptual raffle it is! Your pre-paid ticket gives you free entry into a game […]