photo: Victoria Keddie by Lauryn Siegel
In 2025 the composer, sound artist, lecturer and developer Victoria Keddie designed a spatial sound lab for the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. The lab is fully modular, with a 6.1 arrangement that allows for varying staging configurations. Keddie and her collegues are now closing out the spring semester with a course she developed, Listening Beyond Hearing.
In November 2025, Keddie started The Spatial Sound Union in partnership with Harvestworks (NYC). The union connects sound labs, studios, and organizations working internationally with multichannel and spatial sound, academic, independent, and institutional.
At the heart of the union is a shared understanding that the lab is a living environment, shaped by the people, histories, and forms of attention that move through it. Spatial sound is situational, environmental, and embodied. Union gatherings are built around dialogue, making room for the conditions and knowledge that accumulate in our work together.
Current members include Carol Parkinson and Ivana Dama (Harvestworks, NYC), Zeynep Bulut (SARC, Queen’s University, Belfast), Cristiana Palandri (Music, Technology and Innovation Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester), Seth Cluett (Carnegie Mellon University), Chloe Alexandra Thompson (Reforesters, NYC), Fränk Zimmer (Sounding Future, Graz), William Russell (Monom, Berlin), Gerriet Krishna Sharma (Spæs Lab, Berlin), Cobi van Tonder (University of Bologna), Scott Wilson and Annie Mahtani (BEAST, University of Birmingham), Stephan Moore (CLEAT/Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago), Mariam Gviniashvili (Notam, Oslo), Daniel Neumann (New Ear Inc, NYC), Lee Gilboa (Berklee College of Music, Boston), Paul Geluso (NYU Steinhardt, NYC), and Emma Margetson (SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre, University of Greenwich, London).
This group is actively building towards a traveling program, micro residencies, and developing new tools to better connect, explore, and learn from one another’s environments and practices. www.spatialsoundlab.org.
Upcoming
May 7, 2026 / 6PM CET
IMMERSIA Festival
NOTAM, Oslo
This is the first edition of our new IMMERSIA series. Works by: Victoria Keddie Pierce Warnecke Annie Mahtani Nikos Stavropoulos Giulia Francavilla Martin Recker Leah Reid.
I will be premiering a work for 24 ch ambisonic arrangement.
May 19-22, 2026
Sonic Building
Zollverein Unesco World Heritage Site, Essen
This symposium is a collaborative initiative between the Royal College of Art (UK), EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), UdK Berlin (Germany), and Folkwang Universität der Künste (Germany).
Featuring : Jan St. Werner, Dr. Brett Mommersteeg, Patricia Reed, Dr. Alfredo Thiermann, Dr. Norbert Palz, Dr. Ines Weizman, Dr. Mark Campbell, Nikola Bojic, Vaoujan Chetirian, Victoria Keddie, Michael Akstaller, DAF (Silja Beck & Theresa Hartmann, SKIA, Mike Sekine.
June 11, 2026
Lecture, DIGITALE KUNST
Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
June 17, 2026
Audiovisionen: Victoria Keddie + Nour Sokhon
Kulturraum Zwingli-Kirche, Berlin
Victoria Keddie (US) and Nour Sokhon (Berlin/ Beirut) bring together two distinct approaches to sound and communication. Keddie works beyond structured language, exploring how error, interference, and transmission artifacts destabilize meaning. Sokhon draws from artistic research — interviews, field recordings, and site-specific interventions — translating documentary process into sound and music composition. Together, their practices trace the boundaries between communication, place, and signal.
June 20, 2026
Bruismelk Festival
De Nor, Antwerp
Featuring: Maria Bertel, Victoria Keddie, Strövels, Bjorn Eriksson & -The Bouviers, Clara Lissens, MV Carbon, DJ Mixmonster Menno & DJ -Grazzhoppa, Limpe Fuchs + DJs
June 26-29, 2026
Spaes, Berlin
lab for spatial aesthetics in sound Berlin