Matilde Meireles | Sound art | Field recording | Research

Interconnectivity

Interdependence

Extended listening

Documentation as a creative tool

Participation and collaboration





Forthcoming

Gre, L., Meireles, M., & Rennie, T. (2025). Endarkened listening. In S. Loveless, T. Rennie, M. Søndergaard, & F. Zinovieff (Eds.), Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard (pp. 159-175). Routledge.


Stirling, C., Meireles, M., Bernatek, R., & Ouzounian, G. (2025). Belonging and exclusion in the sonic city: Soundworlds of difference, displacement and co-existence in Brixton. Cambridge University Press.


Stirling, C., & Meireles, M. (in preparation). Constellations: Experiments in multi-media urban ethnography [Manuscript in preparation].



Published

Alvim, D., Meireles, M. (eds.), (2023). Expansive Territories / Territórios Expansivos. ed. bilingue Pt/Eng, online. Caldas da Rainha, Portugal: OSSO and UNESCO Chair in Arts and Cultural Management, Cities and Creativity IPLeiria (co-publishing). ISBN 978-989-53715-8-7


Meireles, M. (2022). Multiple perceptions of the everyday unfolded: The case study of Sunnyside. Journal of Sonic Studies, 22. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/951575/951576/1544/1210


Ouzounian, G., & Meireles, M. (2021). Lockdown sonics: A conversation. In Sonic urbanism: Listening to non-human life (pp. 22–27). Theatrum Mundy, &Beyond Collective. https://theatrum-mundi.org/shop/sonic-urbanism-listening-to-non-human-life/


Best, P., Meireles, M., Schroeder, F., Montgomery, L., Maddock, A., Davidson, G., Galway, K., Trainor, D., Campbell, A., & Van Daele, T. (2021). Freely available virtual reality experiences as tools to support mental health therapy: A systematic scoping review and consensus based interdisciplinary analysis. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, 6(3), 345–364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41347-021-00214-6


Schroeder, F., & Meireles, M. (2019, January 15). How we're designing musical instruments with the help of disabled musicians and VR. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-were-designing-musical-instruments-with-the-help-of-disabled-musicians-and-vr-109119


Meireles, M. (2018). Extended phonography: Experiencing place through sound, a multi-sensorial approach. Organised Sound, 23(1), 96–107. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771817000322


Meireles, M. (2017) Extended Phonography: Expanding Field Recording Through a Multi-Sensorial Practice [Doctoral dissertation, Queen’s University Belfast]


Meireles, M., & Alvim, D. (2017). Trigger place – A game of sound and architecture: A research reflection on PLAY, a site-specific project. Journal of Artistic Research, 14. https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.309117 (best experienced using Chrome)


Meireles, M. (2014). Extended phonography: The intertwining of soundscape and landscape. In R. Castro & M. Carvalhais (Eds.), Invisible places / Sounding cities: Sound urbanism and sense of place (pp. 651–642). http://invisibleplaces.org/IP2014.pdf


Meireles, M. (2025, March 18). How collaborative recording opened up new worlds of sound: The story of an unlikely duo who found creative freedom and friendship through a shared sound recording practice. Medium. https://medium.com/@matilde.meireles/the-world-according-to-sound-6367559f1b6d


Meireles, M. (2024, December 28). A gentle introduction into urban sonic vibrations: The genealogy of an album. Tactile and granular ways of listening to 'unnoticed' sounds. Medium. https://medium.com/@matilde.meireles/a-gentle-introduction-into-urban-sonic-vibrations-e886023edc51




2021-2024 (3 years)

Research Fellow (ERC Funded)

Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism

University of Oxford


2020-2022 (2 years)

Expansive Territories independent research programme co-develeoped with Diogo Alvim

OSSO Associação Cultural


2019 (7 months)

Postdoctoral Researcher (MRC Proximity to Discovery funded)

Virtual reality and immersive technology to support health and social care professional training

Queen’s University Belfast

Sonic Arts Research Centre and the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work


2018-2019 (14 months)

Postdoctoral Researcher (AHRC funded)

Immersion and Inclusive Music Technologies, and Immersive Technologies’ and ‘Virtual Reality Inclusive Music Makers

Queen’s University Belfast

Sonic Arts Research Centre and the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


2017 (10 months)

Postdoctoral Researcher (AHRC funded)

Understanding the role of sound and music in conflict transformation: the Mozambique Case Study

Queen’s University Belfast

Sonic Arts Research Centre and the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics


2017

PhD research in sound art

Extended Phonography: Expanding Field Recording Through a Multi-Sensorial Practice

SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, Queen’s University Belfast.