New Sounds Festival 2026
Discover hidden sounds outdoors: workshop with Kathy Hinde, focussing on using specialist microphones in outdoor environments. This event features a soundwalk around campus, and participatory workshop activities working with unusual microphones (e.g. hydrophones, geophones, contact mics). Participating artists will develop their recording techniques (including methods of using microphones like instruments) and explore the possibilities for outdoor sound recording in their own creative practice.
This event is presented as part of the New Sounds Festival 2026, in partnership with the International Concert Series 2025-26 - VOX HUMANA - at Royal Holloway.
Get involved
This interactive workshop has a limit of 12 participants. If you would like to be involved and are available for the session date/times, please complete this simple form (link embedded).
Prior booking is essential.
About the performers
Kathy Hinde is an artist and composer whose practice embraces open methods and evolving processes. Through installations, performances and site specific experiences, she aims to nurture a deeper and more embodied connection to the more-than-human world. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented musical instruments. She creates pieces in response to specific locations and frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process. Read more.
Car parking
When you arrive for a College event at our Egham campus, please park in car parks 12 or 4.
Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you enter the main College gates and is located next to the tennis courts. If this car park is full, please drive further onto our campus to car park 4, which can be accessed by turning left at the mini-roundabout behind the Students’ Union. We would advise that you bring the College map to campus with you and give yourself plenty of time to park.
Blue Badge holders can find designated parking spaces in Car park 1W, as well as between Gardeners Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can find these locations by looking at our campus map opposite. If you require any assistance on arrival, please contact our premises team in advance of your visit by emailing: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk and they will be happy to help.
Please note that we operate an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on certain parts of our campus, however if you are here for an organised event, parking is unrestricted for event guests in car parks 12, 4 or 14 (or display your blue badge permit if parking in a disabled bay). If you have any questions about parking, please email: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk
Further information
This interactive workshop has a limit of 12 participants. If you would like to be involved and are available for the session date/times, please complete the simple form above. Prior booking is essential.
