Falmouth University’s Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA) is curating an exciting music symposium named Dark Sound: Destructive Pop 2015.

The event will take place over three days from April 23 to 28 at the campus.

Dark Sound is inspired by the electrified voices of many artists that have gained recognition in popular music such as Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Portishead, The XX, Tom Waits, Young Fathers and many others.

The symposium will feature |presentations, films, performances and evening concerts which will explore the different areas of the popular culture such as violence, sex, melancholy, loss, death, desire, void, addiction, rage and longing.

The keynote speakers include Professor Hillegonda C. Rietveld; reader in Cultural Studies, course director of Music and Sonic Media at London South Bank University and Marcus O’Dair; lecturer in Popular Music at Middlesex University.

This will be a rare and unique opportunity for anyone that shares an interest in popular |culture to learn from two well respected academics as well as from many other professionals from the industry through music, chat and presentations throughout the event Music comes from The Black Tambourines, The Isabelles and Minko on Thursday, Neil Halstad, Hockeysmith and Olive Haigh on Friday, and on Saturday The Diamond Family Achive, Mary Hampton and Thirty Pounds of Bones.

For full information on speakers and acts see http://projects.|falmouth.ac.uk/darksound2015/