MiniBEAST is our regular informal concert series, running every Wednesday during University term time. Come along to experience a range of both new electronic works and acousmatic classics, all presented on our multichannel dome room system.

Programme: TBA

Gerriet Sharma is a Berlin-based composer, sound artist, and artistic researcher in spatial practices. For this exciting event he will present a workshop and concert on the groundbreaking IKO icosahedral loudspeaker, sharing his insights over a 15 year period of practice with the instrument. The concert will showcase work from the last decade from Sharma and others working with the IKO as well as a world premiere of his new piece shadow material.

This concert will be preceded by a workshop led by Gerriet Sharma, from 11am-2.30pm

May 1st – May 3rd 2025

BEAST FEaST 2025 will bring friends old and new – from both far flung parts of the world and close to home – together in Birmingham. Electroacoustic music in the twenty-first century is both a local and a global art form. It is at once capable of expressing the local knowledge and culture of the many geographical regions in which it has taken root, notably with the many important electronic music studios that were founded in Japan, Africa, India, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe; and of bringing together different cultures, genres, forms, and sounds, whether through practices of deliberate hybridisation and fusion, or via juxtaposition and contrast. For the 10th Anniversary of BEAST FEaST, our goal is to make a festival which gathers that diversity together in celebration!