Concert: Helen Anahita-Wilson

As part of the 2026 SPARC Symposium, a concert featuring Helen Anahita Wilson.

Admission

General admission: £5
City students, staff, unwaged and concessions: Free admission - please sign up to attend here.

Please note, separate bookings are required for each Symposium event. To see all events (27-31 May 2026), please visit the Symposium overview page.

Programme

Music from the Quietest Place on Earth (working title)

This performance, presented as a work in progress, draws on interior, corporeal listening experiences to tonotopically explore soundworlds of the human body. Created in response to spending time in the Orfield Laboratories anechoic chamber in Minneapolis, sounds from eyelids, lungs, and pumping arteries are musically transducted in an indeterminate and interoceptive new work.

About Helen Anahita Wilson

Helen Anahita Wilson is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow (2026–2029) at King's College London working on her project, A Life in Sound, which explores alternative understanding soft the human body through sound, music, and modes of listening. An award-winning composer, sound artist, pianist, and free improviser, her work is characterised by artistic sonation, a compositional methodology that creatively transducts living processes and experiential information into non-lexical music and sonic arts. Wilson's practice brings together research in South Asian musics, sonic life writing, and biophilic music making, and she has been commissioned by organisations and festivals including the United Nations, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Brighton Dome & Festival, Sightsavers, and Maggie's cancer centres. She was the inaugural composer-in-residence at the Chelsea Physic Garden and is currently creating music and sound design for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 Sightsavers garden. Winner of a 2023 Oram Award for innovation in sound, music, and related technologies, her work has been featured by CNN, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, Sky Arts, and The Sunday Times, which described her music as "beautiful, otherworldly… captivatingly unconventional."