LAURA CAMPBELL: Sound Design & Film
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sONOGON
Martha Me and My Family
Unity Theatre 2023
Audio & Visual Design
Written, Performed & Produced by Saphena Aziz
Directed by Julia Samuels
Saphena Aziz is a Liverpool playwright, actor and producer - her one woman show explores family, friendship, motown and the British Empire.
The MUMMY - 2023
Sound Design
Short Film
Written, directed & produced by Nicki McCubbing,
Cinematographer/editing Carl Davies,
Colourist Paul Handley
SCREENINGS: Venezia shorts Italy - Semi-finalist; Hebden Bridge Film Festival: Manchester Film Festival; Sunderland shorts Film Festival; Berlin Indie Film Festival; BIFF Sweden Film Festival
PLANETS IN THE PASTURE (Cronton, Sun, Moon and Stars: 2022)
Audio Story/soundscape
Sound Design - Friend Or Foe (Laura Campbell & Adam Sloan)
Story/Narration - Cronton C of E Primary School & artist Frankie Gold. Additional Narration - David Galvin, Liverpool Astronomical Society
Produced by Bea Anderton, Knowsley Council.
The event celebrated Cronton’s rich links to stargazing and astronomy as part of Knowsley’s year as Liverpool City Region Borough of Culture and every town and village telling their story.
‘Planets in the Pasture’, was a fully immersive experience transporting
the audience through the night sky. Featuring an outdoor planetarium made up of a glowing inflatable solar system.
The accompanying soundscape experienced on headphones took audiences on a journey into space with an astronomical
adventure story and accompanying soundscape.
I walk and I walk and I walk: 2022
Geolocated Audiowalk
Sound Design - Laura Campbell/Adam Sloan
An experimental geolocated audio walk exploring green spaces and how they connect to our memories, using original music & field recordings. Presented by Laura Campbell & Adam Sloan for - Sound & Music Liverpool/North West Composer Social at Coronation Park in Ormskirk.
Designed to be experienced using headphones
Download the Echoes app to experience:
I walk and I walk and I walk
Still From The Cosy Jumper 2022
The Cosy Jumper 2022
Sound Designer
Lead artist - Lou Chappelle
Film Maker - Tim Brunsden -
Poet - Scott Farlow -
A project 'exploring human feelings of connections and togetherness through knitting, poetry, sound and movement'
created through a series of workshops in St Helens with residents of Foundry Wharf and Heald Farm Court,
and with dancers from the Silver Swans (U3A).
This led to the creation of a Film which was presented at:
St. Helens rugby Club 15th April - during the Castleford Tigers VS Saints match & Church Square Shopping centre St Helens March 2022
‘Connections project’, a Creative People and Places Program (commissioned by Heart of Glass,
funded by Arts Council England)
Duty/Tour - Audio walk
Produced by They Eat Culture for Edinburgh Fringe 2021
Sound Designer
Director: Ruth Heritage
Writer: Belle Jones
Duty | Tour is a 30 minute experimental site specific audio walk, which takes audiences through the streets by Hepburn House Reserve HQ, Edinburgh
A rapid response piece to open up difficult questions about women’s experiences in the army exploring the complexities and duties of female friendship in a male dominated environment, in the aftermath of a traumatic situation on tour whilst in the army. The piece opens up questions around our individual battle lines, experiences of women in male-dominated situations, the difficulty of articulating and understanding gender-based trauma, and how we see home after having experiences that take us far beyond our community. Tackling the subject matter through immersive storytelling, exploring human behaviour with wry insights and sensitivity, the writing, audio, and immersive direction create a space for the audience to become one with our reservist and her experiences.
Photo by Elinor Randle
Raven R&D By Abigail Mckenzie - 2021
Sound Design
Directed by Elinor Randle
Puppetry - Ruta Staseviciute
Music - Satin Beige
Produced by Saphena Aziz & Liverpool Playhouse
Racing The King Tide (VR Documentary Film) - 2021
Spatial audio sound design - Laura Campbell/Adam Sloan
The film highlights the effects of sea-level rise on Islands in the Philippines - exhibited in the green zone at COP26 (2021)
This was co-created as part of a wider international research project with Liverpool John Moores University,
The University of Tokyo, Waseda University, The Manila Observatory, Hatch,
the Philippine Local Government Unit and the Tubigon islanders.
If We Were A Forest - 2021
Sound Designer
Film and Sound project In collaboration with Lou Chapelle, Edge Hill University, Learning Stars, Gorse Hill Nature Reserve and film-maker Tim Brunsden,
Film and sound design created in collaboration with members of Learning Stars who explored what it would feel like to be a tree in a forest
Exhibition - The Chapel, Ormskirk May 2022
Video still by Tim Brunsden - If We Were A Forest
Photo by Scott Spencer
Lass O’ Pairts - 2021
Creation of bespoke low energy outdoor sound helmets commissioned by Glasgow based Mischief La-Bas as part of Lass O’ Pairts performance exhibition with 12 artists.
‘curated for and about the planet, highlighting some of the
women pioneers who first made discoveries in our shared universe.’
Sound design: Laura Campbell
Helmet Construction: Laura Campbell/Adam Sloan
Additional Making: Tamasine Seibold
www.mischieflabas.co.uk/lass-o-pairts
www.lassopairts.com/
Butterflies In The Chaos - August 2020
Sound Designer
Lead artist: Laurence Payot
Video edit: Adam Sloan
Short Film, Commissioned by The Atkinson, Festival Of Hope, Curious Minds
Metal Remote Residency- August 2020, Artist In Residence
What I leave behind I bring with me - is available on Apple Podcasts
Walking and recording became a daily activity during lockdown. It became a way of listening more deeply to where I lived, listening to newly uncovered sounds. Without the veil of traffic noise, there was an unexpected space to hear other things, hidden reverbs, tonalities, echos. Sounds from outside became amplified in the silence, bringing the outdoor ambience into the inside through open windows, more noticeable than ever.
I became interested in the difference in the sound of spaces, their resonance, how as a recordist sounds are made, and how I listened differently through the act of recording whilst walking. I am interested in how the body and voice becomes part of the field recording, a self-surveillance of unconscious actions and improvised routine, and how these sounds can be used within a composition.
The podcast “What I leave Behind I Bring With Me” is a work in progress and a way of sharing some of the compositions using an alternative and freely accessible online platform, giving me the freedom to experiment with how I present my work.
More information about the residency can be found at Metal Culture
Duck Daze, 2019.
Sound Designer
New Talent Scottish Shorts 2018 programme. Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and the BFI
Scottish short film about a woman who gets revenge on her childhood abuser, with the help of a duck. Screened at: Dunoon Film Festival; Leeds International Festival; BFI London Film Festival; Glasgow Short Film Festival; Underwire Festival; Edinburgh Film Festival; 2nd Femspectives - Glasgow Feminist Film Festival 2020; Broadcast: BBC Scotland
The Space Between Us 2019.
Sound Designer
Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, with artists Laurence Payot, Stacey Goodall, Tim Brunsden, Scott Farlow.
A short-film about our perception of space created with young people from Wired Young Carers and Velocity Dance.
commissioned by Warrington Arts Festival, funded by Arts Council England.
Both Sides Now International Commission, Brighter Sound 2019, Manchester Central Library .
Writer/Performer/Visual Artist
In collaboration with composer Mari Sainio (Finland) the creation of original compositions were written with visuals & premiered at Manchester Central Library.
Additional visuals & Production: Adam Sloan
Both Sides Now - Gwenno Residency, Brighter Sound 2019- Invisible Wind Factory/Sound City Liverpool.
Film Maker/VJ
8 Female musicians collaborated with Heavenly Records artist Gwenno utilising sound recordings and live music played back through wireless headphones performed with accompanying visuals filmed and created alongside musicians to coincide with a live performance for Sound City at District Liverpool
The Uninvited Guest - 2018, Glasgow School Of Art Degree Show
Film Maker/Sound Design
Stereo mix of a multi-channel installation work using ambisonics and object-based audio processing. Exhibited 2018 Glasgow School Of Art.
Inversion - 2018
Film Maker/Sound Design
Inversion explores a post-Brexit Liverpool, polluted and desolate with the gateway closed and a cultural collective experience gone.
2018
Fireworks For The Dead - 2018
Film Maker/Sound Design
Documentary sound - Glasgow School Of Art 2018 - Laura Campbell, Devon Yagian Boutelle, Michael Davitt
Beyond The Bats - 2018
Film Maker/Sound Design
The act of sustained, deep listening in a familiar place whilst recording enabled me to connect to an area in a completely new way. Through the course of daily listening and recording walks in Arnside, Lancashire, I became more immersed in my sound environment. When listening back to the recordings I had captured, I heard chance encounters, mistakes, familiar voices, a mixture of dialects, tentative vocalisations, environmental sounds within the context of a familiar place, they resonated with my memories of the area making me feel both nostalgic and emotional. My sound film became an unexpected sonic exploration of my emotional attachment to place connected to childhood memory and family.
From Fallen Light - 2016
Sound Design / Music
Music by Laura Campbell & Adam Sloan. Excerpt from work created during three month residency on the northern coast of Iceland. Part of a series of immersive AV performances and interactive film installations by Friend Or Foe: What I Leave Behind I Bring With Me: Skammdegi Preview Show , Salur Myndlistarfélagsins, Akureyri, Iceland. What I Leave Behind I Bring With Me: Skammdegi Opening Show, outside Listhús Gallery, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. Fallen Light: Waves and Velocities, Tjarnabourg Culture House, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. Fallen Light: Mount Tindaöxl Ski Lodge, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. Afloat Inland: Liverpool Light Night, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, UK. Fallen Light: Also Festival 2016, Warwickshire, UK. From Fallen Light: From The North, Watt Space Gallery, University Of Newcastle, Australia.