A Sensation Never Yet Known - Workshop Series
A free workshop series responding to the work of Janet Beat and Luke Fowler's "A Sensation Never Yet Known"
School of Culture & Creative Arts | College of Arts & Humanities | Thinking Culture
Date: Wednesday 24 June 2026 - Tuesday 07 July 2026
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound
Category: Concerts and music, Community events
Led by Kevin Leomo, this workshop series engages with experimental musical practices, taking the work of Janet Beat as a starting point. Through exploring practices including Deep Listening, acoustic ecology, and Fluxus, we’ll consider how we can acknowledge the artistic traditions we draw from and honour the legacies of those who came before. We’ll think about the barriers faced by the artists who influenced us, and what barriers we face today as contemporary artists and as people. We’ll consider the material conditions in which we live and make work, while also collectively discussing the future of artistic practice, both individual and collective.
6-8pm, Wed June 24: Listening - in nature, in/to self. 6-8pm
6-8pm, Wed July 1: Making -scoring/notating/drawing/sketching/writing/memorising - in work, practice, flow
6-8pm, Tues July 7: Sounding - in community
Open to all (no experience required), but particularly useful for those with an artistic and/or experimental practice.
Kevin Leomo is a Scottish-Filipino sound artist, researcher, curator, and community organiser. His creative practice spans text-based scores, non-standard notation, improvisation, field recording, critical listening practices, performance, and installation. Kevin has performed at AMPLIFI, Events Research Programme, Afro-Scottish Poetry, Glasgow Experimental Music Series, and Glasgow Mela. Kevin Co-Directs the Creatives of Colour Festival, is one half of Project Somnolence with Maria Sledmere, and leads the sound artist collective Sound Thought. He sits on the Scottish Trade Union Congress Black Workers’ Committee and the Musicians’ Union Regional Committee for Scotland & Northern Ireland. Kevin is a board member for the Scottish Music Centre and the Strategic Advisory Board for the Anti-Racism Observatory for Scotland.
A Sensation Never Yet Known is a new film work by Luke Fowler exploring the ongoing history of electronic music in Scotland. Fowler’s film combines footage of recent workshops led by Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound (GLOSS) with explorations of the practice of UK composer Janet Beat, an electronic and electro-acoustic music pioneer.
The project is informed by Fowler’s collaboration with GLOSS and with University of Glasgow musician-researchers Louise Harris and Kevin Leomo. Drawing on their respective practices, Fowler traces aesthetic and historical resonances between music made today and Janet’s use of electronic instruments and experimentation with techniques such as visual scores. Extending Fowler’s long-standing interest in how cultural and political figures of the 1960s and 1970s are remembered, A Sensation Never Yet Known also reflects his own practice as a musician and an artist-filmmaker.
Presented by GLOSS as part of Glasgow International 2026; curated by Dominic Paterson.