Solfi: Noise from Nowhere Workshop

Solfi Sound
Solfi is a centre for sound and music-based learning. Established by Kin Structures at the Soanes Centre, Solfi supports musicians, educators and artists to develop public learning that channels histories, practices and visions of global majority communities.

In the past year, Solfi has hosted workshops and performances on somatics and sound, silence, the history of the saxophone, contemporary jazz activism in South Africa and and DIY radio-building techniques. Solfi is currently led by Arman Nouri.

Arman Nouri
Arman Nouri is an artist-educator, dwelling at the intersection of hybrid infrastructures, gathering breaths, movements, gestures and glances, noticing and revealing the dynamics and relations that structure our lived experiences. The vision is that patterns shift and structures soon follow. Arman is ½ of Kin Structures, alongside Kwame Lowe, and ½ of Music before Medicine, alongside Hannah Yu-Pearson. His sound work Sound and Solidarity (2021-2024 with Sound Advice) was commissioned by the Mosaic Rooms, SOAS and the Roundhouse. Between 2021 and 2022 he led the Mayor of London's Culture and Community Spaces at Risk Programme during Raja Moussaoui's maternity leave. Between 2021 and 2023 he led the Critical Creative Practices unit (MA Cities) at Central St Martins UAL. Previously you might have seen him publishing, writing, curating, organising and facilitating with EYESORE, which he co-founded in 2015. Arman has also produced exhibitions, installations and books for Approved by Pablo, Somerset House, Rafael Schacter, the Brunei Gallery, British Council, Filippo Minelli and Manifesta.