Sampling the City: Shiva Feshareki Live at the Sheldonian - Highlights

Sampling the City was an interdisciplinary project between HCP Visiting Fellow Shiva Feshareki and EMPRes that incorporates sound, electronic music composition, new technology, space, hermeneutics and architecture. The project culminated in a unique spatial composition created live in-the-moment at The Sheldonian. A cutting-edge 16 speaker ambisonic sound-system generate a new form of 3D spatial audio controlled by Shiva as she composed live, listening and responding to the acoustics, energy and architecture of The Sheldonian, aligning its history with the present composition. This video brings together a taste of the different voices audiences heard as Shiva manipulated live in improvisation, speeding them up, slowing them down, forwards and backwards to infinite effect, creating music and new perspectives out of the diverse sounds and narratives of Oxford. This approach, archetypal of Shiva’s ambisonic live turntablism, fearlessly warped time and space through the boundless possibility of he