She has collaborated with fellow PhD researchers and academic staff over the years including critical improvisation studies, socially engaged work in Brazil and Mozambique, inclusive music making and the use of VR in mental health therapy.

"Matilde has been a real community builder at SARC and this visiting scholarship is another opportunity to enjoy her presence and influence as well as support a new exciting project which will be revealed in the next few months.” Pedro Rebelo, Director, SARC.

Matilde Meireles is a sound artist and researcher who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her work has a multi-sensorial, durational and multi-perspective critical approach to site, where Matilde investigates the potential of listening across spectrums and scales as ways to attune to various ecosystems and articulate plural experiences of the world. Some examples include the inner architectures of reeds and complex water ecologies, resonances in everyday objects, local neighbourhoods and the architecture of radio signals. Her work is presented regularly in the form of concerts, installations, album releases, community-based projects and academic publications. She holds a PhD in Sonic Arts from SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, Queen’s University Belfast.