About
Sound Designer - Musician - Artist
Nicholas Faris is a sound designer and artist from Wales. Nicholas navigates his practice through the means of improvisation, adopted from his background as a musician. His work traverses the connections between modes of listening and lived experiences.
“My inquiry into listening uses exercises in improvisation as the starting point for modes of discovery that move beyond musical contexts using visual narratives, performances and sonic experience. Improvisation enables me to intuitively respond to my work throughout, forming a dialogical process without the constraints of pre-determining outcomes. My practice observes the performative behaviour of material using sound and vibration as the primary source. My current research reflects on how listening can re-position the frames of reference that we use to make sense of our experiences.”
Award - Best Animated Short, Raindance Festival (2025) [Sound Design]
Neurodiversity Celebration Event, Royal College of Art, London (2025) [Guest Speaker]
16 Channel Spatial Composition - Frameless, London (2024)
Guest Speaker / Performance - Association for Sound Designers Winter School (2024)
Creative Mentor - Creative Mentors Foundation (2023-2024)
Behaviours. Multichannel Performance - Sound Kitchen, Prague Quadrennial, Prague (2023)
16 Channel Spatial Composition - Outernet, London (2023)
As a Shuddering Tableau - The Koppel Project, London (2023) [Exhibition]
Embodiment of a Decentralised Space - IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023) [Exhibition, Conference]
Reconstructed, Kachi Chan, ArsTech, Hong Kong (2022) [Sound Design, Exihibtion]
LG Luminous - Old Street Gallery, London - Project Finalist (2022-2023) [Exhibition & Competition]
Object Ensemble - IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022) [Exhibition / Conference]
Tracing Encounters - Resonance FM (2022) [Radio]
Downtown Digging - House of Vans (2022) [Exhibition / Performance]
Urgent Blood - Winner - 'Flash Fiction Open Call: Alternative Networks' - The Photographers' Gallery (2021) [Exhibition]
White Noise, Iklectik, London (2020-2022) [Performances]
Tectonic Resonances, Chile Pavilion, London Design Biennale (2021) [Performance]
Cardiff Animation Festival, Microacts Short Film Festival (2021-2022) [Sound Design]