Sound Advice: Music As Form

The Department of Visual Cultures, Institute of Art and Design at the TU Wien is pleased to welcome Joseph Henry of Sound Advice for a lecture open to the public on Monday, 31.10 at 18:00. The lecture will take place in seminar room AC0440 at the Technical University Campus at Karlsplatz.

It is nothing new to declare that for us music, gesture, dance are forms of communication, just as important as the gift of speech. This is how we first managed to emerge from the plantation: aesthetic form in our cultures must be shaped from these oral structures.”

– Édouard Glissant

Sound Advice will discuss how our practice embeds music culture to explore new models of spatial practice. Our work takes inspiration from the idea that music is the foundational element of creativity which is the bridge to other modes of cultural expression - in this case, architecture.

Joseph Henry is a designer, urbanist whose practice involves working closely with institutions to be more progressive in how they shape our urban environment. Joseph works at the Greater London Authority as Capital Development Manager in the Culture and Creative Industries Unit. He previously led the Ecological Urbanism research inquiry, where he developed planning policy and guidance to embed circular economy principles into London’s planning system. In 2022, Joseph was selected to co-curate the 2023 British Pavilion at Venice la Biennale alongside Jayden Ali, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham. Joseph, alongside Pooja Agrawal, is the co-host of Sound Advice, an ‘extra-institutional’ platform exploring new forms of spatial practice through music. Sound Advice develops projects that foreground narratives and culture critical to designing a more progressive and plural urban environment. He is a trustee and company board member of the Russell Maliphant Dance Company and an associate lecturer on the MArch course and Central Saint Martins. and an advisor to Theatrum Mundi.