Julie Freeman

An audio recording device with fluffy boom sits on icy ground, surrounded by wires. A wire from the device disappears into a hole in the ice

Two people close up in full thermal suits holding a doom and video equipment. The person on the right is wearing googles.

Icy hole with a wooden pole over it, wires wrapped around the pole and entering the ice hole

An audio recording device with fluffy boom sits on icy ground, next to a hole in the ice

Listening back to underwater and under-ice #fieldrecordings on a glacier in #Svalbard is like travelling back to another part of the arctic environment. There's so much we don't sense, much more than what meets the ear and the eye. Much more to learn. Much more to protect.

Thanks to everyone who came to our #openstudio ! Loved seeing you all get immersed in the tactility of the Sonaforms. Shout out to baby Leo who loved them!

The online version of More Than Us for Hiscox Insurance was made with two distinct intentions: 1. To open it up to a wider audience and 2. to integrate sound. We followed a similar aesthetics of the permanent work; geometric shapes inspired by Suprematist paintings. morethanus.life

1. A bright space with a person with blonde hair and a pale jacket, Julie, standing looking down at the camera. On the ceiling is a colourful display of fluid lines and shapes in blue, red, orange and white.

2. A bright, light corridor space leading into wide room at the end. On the ceiling is a colourful display of fluid lines and shapes in blue, red, orange and white.

3. A beautiful bright space with wooden floors, beige walls and a railing possibly leading to stairs. There are framed pictures on the walls with paintings inside.

4. A bright space with a person with blonde hair and a pale jacket, Julie, standing looking up at the ceiling. On the ceiling is a colourful display of fluid lines and shapes in blue, red, orange and white.

More Than Us, my digital artwork @hiscoxinsurance.bsky.social's London HQ uses AI + AL to visualise how data, randomness + climate chaos shape our collective story. Thanks Studio TILT for weaving it into the space, award-nominated + featured in Amazing Architecture, FRAME, SBID+ Mix Interiors 🏆

GLACIER LAMENTATION video greeting for the World Day of Glacier 21 March 2025. YouTube video by arty372

Today is @unesco.org #WorldDayofGlaciers. I'm in the incredible #Svalbard for the project ‘Glacier Lamentation – the Sound of Climate Change’. Here is a video greeting + musical performance from some of our team, which will be shown today at the UNESCO HQ in Paris. bit.ly/427CKFB

Three people stand around a wooden form, person on the left is in white and has her hands on the surface

Sonaform on tour 🔥 Our trip to @sxsw.com was mega. So many new connections and fresh ideas. Thank you Austin, we loved sharing our mini Sonaform with you and cannot wait to feed what we've learnt back into this new chapter! Big thanks to @innovateuk.bsky.social for the support!
#sxsw #shapedsound

Thank you to all the artists that applied to our open call and a big congratulations to the following selected artists:

Identity 2.0

@juliefreeman.bsky.social

Kiki Shervington-White

Louise Ashcroft

Rachel Maclean

@aboveandbelow.bsky.social

@wesleygoatley.bsky.social

Evelyn dressed in black with long pale hair is lying on her back on a curved wooden sculpture. Julie, a women in white with blonde hair, kneels behind

Evelyn & Julie and crouching on the floor next to some drums

Evelyn & Julie and standing to one side of a large wooden marimba playing it with sticks

Had the privilege of meeting the legendary @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social last month. We discussed our sound-emitting wooden sculptures (pic 1), how vibrations resonate through the body, her collection of 3000+ percussion instruments, and more! Her advice will stay with us for a lifetime.

comic-style artist of a person reading a book with a small photo of a woman in it with some biography text

comic-style drawing of a woman writing with some text to the side

image of text on a page

comic-style drawing of a woman listening to music on headphones surrounded by fish

Feel incredibly lucky to have featured in this young artist's research project! ✨ Ethan and his mum Kathleen sent these from New Jersey, USA some years ago and, as you can see, they're beautiful! I can confirm that, although some time has passed, the facts are on point.

photo of people's hands interacting with smooth wooden objects

⚡✨ WE NEED YOUR VOTE ✨⚡ We've curated 'Feeling Sound: Designing for Emotional and Physical Resonance': a panel discussion for @sxswlondon with the phenomenal Hannah Catherine Jones, @offyellow.bsky.social +@karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social. Please register + place your vote here: buff.ly/4ioZQyH

We recently had the privilege of meeting with our new collaborator Julian Treasure. Julian will be helping us understand our Shaped Sound sculptures as conduits for richer listening experiences & improved wellbeing. As he's a leading expert, writer & speaker on sound, we couldn't be more excited ✨

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Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp

One of my very first coding inspirations were L-systems. So simple, so beautiful.

💥 We're excited to be meeting Dame Evelyn later this year to talk about Shaped Sound 💥

Solo percussionist and composer Dame Evelyn Glennie is a double GRAMMY winner, BAFTA nominee, recipient of the Polar Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Companion of Honour.

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