Thursday 27 April
19:30 Dome Room
Our festival launch features works by Matthusen and Tremblay’s improv duo light.box.
| Roeland Luyten | Helena |
| Symeon Youvev | terreiro do paço ~ 160222 |
| Amy Brandon | Artificial Light and War Games; Amy Brandon – Guitar |
| Daniele Pozzi | Breakpoint |
| Luigi Marino | improv (title?) |
| Interval | |
| Paula Matthusen | within the social history of saltpeter |
| Niketa Sheth | Orford Ness |
| P.A. Tremblay/Alex Bonney | light.box |
| Edmar Soria | Entalpia |
Friday 28 April
13.00 Barber Concert Hall
Our resident ensemble the Pestova/Rees/Roche Trio present a concert featuring the premiere of Scott Wilson’s LOW, alongside works by Rob MacKay, Maximilian Marcoll, and others.
| Katharine Norman | A walk I do |
| Rob MacKay | Equanimity |
| Timothy Roy | Wunderkind |
| Maximillian Marcoll | Amproprification #1: Sequenza 9c, Luciano Berio |
| Scott Wilson | LOW |
15:00 Dome Room
Featured artist Sarah Farmer performs the latest incarnation of her A precarious equilibrium of give and take (and round in ellipses we go). This extended work is for violin combined with electronic sound derived from data from black hole binary systems, gathered during a research period wth Birmingham University Gravitational Wave physicists. Newly adapted for the immersive BEASTdome sound system, this performance invites the audience to come and go as they please.
| Sarah Farmer | Precarious Equillibrium |
19:00 Elgar Concert Hall
Works include Tremblay’s asinglewordisnotenough2 (aria da capo) for the experimental Seaboard keyboard instrument, and Pestova/Rees/Roche performing Andrew Lewis’s Straatmuziek.
| P.A. Tremblay | asinglewordisnotenough2 (aria da capo); Xenia Pestova – Seaboard |
| Antonio D’Amato | Paysage marin avec bateaux et hydravion |
| Nikos Stavropoulos | Topophilia |
| James Harley | Wild Fruits 3: Chestnuts |
| Rutz/Pirro | anemone_3c26b3f |
| Jonathan Weinel | Space Temple |
| Andrew Lewis | Straatmuziek; Pestova/Rees/Roche Trio |
20:45 Elgar Concert Hall
This late night event includes Simon Emmerson’s Aeolian, and featured artist Paula Matthusen’s Rising Divergence for video with fixed and live electronic sound.
| Steven Naylor | Simeonovo |
| Robert Phillips | Rutaceae |
| Gabriel Gendin | Intihuatana |
| Nick Ryall | New work; Xenia Pestova – Toy Piano |
| Simon Emmerson | Aeolian |
| Paula Matthusen | Rising Divergence |
Saturday 29 April
16:00 Elgar Concert Hall
Featuring Ambrose Seddon’s Fleeting Strands, John Young’s Spectral Domains (with Trionys from Germany) and Adam and Inja Stanovic’s beautiful One Byrd, Two Stones for piano and electroacoustic sound, based on the music of William Byrd.
| Adrian Baker | Are you there? |
| Ambrose Seddon | Fleeting Strands |
| Colin Frank | Virtual Sphere |
| Fernando Lopez-Lezcano | The Hidden and Mysterious Machinery of Sound |
| Shawn Greenlee | Quarries HSL |
| John Young | Spectral Domains; Trionys |
| Adam Stanovic/Inja Stanovic | One Byrd, Two Stones; Inja Stanovic – piano |
20:00 Elgar Concert Hall
The festival closer goes out with a bang, with music including Rob Bentall’s gorgeous Telian for Swedish nyckelharpa and electronic sound, Charles Nichols raucous Epithemus Gift performed by American bassoonist Steve Vacchi, and the premiere of a new ‘massively multichannel’ commission by P.A.Tremblay.
| Rob Bentall | Telian; Rob Bentall – Nyckelharpa |
| Jesse Lyons | Accordion with EarNest |
| Charles Nichols | Epimethus Gift; Steve Vacchi – Bassoon |
| Erik Nystrom | New work |
| Scott Wilson | Kelp Road |
| Shawn Pinchbeck | Pathways |
| P.A Tremblay | New Work |