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Score-making:
Workshop with Shamica Ruddock

Score-making: Workshop with Shamica Ruddock

Entry

Free entry, booking advised

Date

Wed 8 Apr 2026

Time

6–7.30pm

Location

Clore Learning Studio
Turner Contemporary

Discover what a sonic score can be in this workshop exploring sound, space, memories, and how our bodies shift in communal spaces.

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This workshop explores what a sonic score could be. Working in a small group alongside artist and composer Shamica Ruddock, participants will explore the process of sounding and note-taking in a collectively held space where anything (and everything) can be a sound. Using a variety of notational and drawing techniques, we will map a journey together and reflect on our sonic curiosities, reflecting on how rhythms in sound and space, our memories and our bodies shift and envelop in communal spaces.

No previous technical or musical knowledge required.

 

This event is part of Open School East's 2026 Associates Programme, Towards the Edges. Find more events at openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026.

Organised by OSE Associate Hannah Chaney and Annabelle Edginton.

About Shamica Ruddock

Working across film, installation and live performance, Shamica Ruddock is an artist and a composer whose experiments in sound are informed by a core investment in sound as a site for knowledge production. Interested in dynamics of displacement, transferral, capture and legibility, through practice Shamica attempts to evaluate how these as processes contribute to the way we sense the everyday. Fiction, vernaculars, and (techno)creolisation are some further departure points.

Shamica has previously held residencies with Brussels experimental sound lab QO2, and Amant Foundation New York (2023). Solo shows include The River Between (Studio Voltaire, 2026), Palimpsests & Epithets (Skēnē Malmö, 2024) Deciphering a Broken Syntax (South London Gallery, 2022). Solo live performances include Cafe OTO (UK), Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus (SE), Somerset House Studios (UK) and ArtHouse Jersey (UK). In 2021, she was a British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow researching Maroon sound cultures and in 2023 Ruddock was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award. Shamica is currently a Sound and Music In Motion composer.

Previously an Open School East Associate Artist, Shamica Ruddock shares sound based research project ‘Re-Imagining In-Conversation’ with fellow Open School East alumni Hannan Jones. Presentations include Silent Green (DE), Savvy Contemporary (DE), Madeira Dig (PT), and Oscillation (BE). Together they are currently artists in residence with Wysing Arts Centre Cambridge, supported by Forma and Knotenpunkt.

About Open School East

Open School East is a free, independent art school in Margate that focuses on collective learning through the arts for adults, young people and children. Each year the current cohort of Associate Artists develop and deliver a public programme of events. Their public events, activities and short courses invite interactions between the artistic community, the local neighbourhood and the broader public. They include skills-based workshops, talks, seminars, reading groups, walks, performances, concerts, screenings and social gatherings. They are organised by, and in dialogue with OSE alumni and staff, guest practitioners, and local and regional partner organisations.

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