Sound UK’s artist development programme, Sound Generator, supports early career artists and the work they present.
In this series of Spotlight interviews, we find out more about the artists on our 2024-25 artist development programme and learn more about their Sound Generator projects.
This week, we talk to Arun Sood.
Arun Sood is a Scottish-Indian writer, musician, academic, and intermedia artist working across multiple forms. Through working creatively and critically with archives, found sound, and composition, his work explores cultural memory, diasporic identities, song cultures, and the intersections between personal heritage, colonial histories, and climate futures.
For Sound Generator, Arun is researching and developing 'Brown Hebrideans', a project conceived with collaborator Angeline Morrison, that explores their relationship with the Outer Hebrides and Gaelic song culture.
"For this project I'm going to be working with archival Gaelic song particularly with a focus on emigration songs from the Outer Hebrides and reworking them in ways that are a bit experimental and reinterpretating them in new ways." Arun Sood
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“I’m very happy to be part of this programme because it gives the time and space to develop this idea at a formative stage and time and space is not always easy to come by as an independent artist." Arun Sood
We look forward to sharing more details about Arun Sood's Sound Generator project as it develops. Visit Arun's website to find out more about his work.
Sound Generator is Sound UK's artist research and development (R&D) programme that supports early-career artists and seeds the development of an ambitious new project. Following an open call, a panel of judges including leading figures across contemporary music, chose six emerging artists working at the forefront of sound and music.
Sound Generator supports artists in the first 5-10 years of their career. Over the six month programme, they each receive mentoring by a range of professionals to develop a project ready for showcasing to the industry.
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