PHOTOS FROM SONO ELECTRO 2025
It was a delight to take part in Sono Electro 2025, both as a participating artist and as a photographer. On the Friday, as my previous news post talked about, as part of my ongoing creative documentation of motherhood, I sat in a boat singing the nursery rhyme Row Your Boat for two hours. I will post more about that soon.
The following two days I was back photographing the rest of the festival. Although it’s largely a sonic arts festival, Sono Electro placed lots of emphasis on the visual this year and included an exhibition of photos and a live sound performance by Carl Bigmore, cyanotype workshops and a sound installation by Ben Branagan and an incredible site-specific installation by ZEROH, built throughout the duration of the festival.
The festival also included a showcase by Respond Academy and Fraktured Planet, Spin Cycle - an improvised music performance, podcasts and performances by Isobel Anderson, Alice Barnard, Ted Barrow, Gascia Ouzounian, Ger Gormley and a bombastic and brilliant, packed-out final show by The Statue of Liberty Big Band. Apologies to anyone I have forgotten.
I absolutely love photographing festivals because for a whole day or weekend, you become part of a very specific community; and get to photograph with both a macro and micro perspective. Sono Electro does the community thing particularly well and it felt apt that the theme this year was belonging.
Below is a selection of photos. Looking forward to next' year’s festival already.
Georgina
