Thursday 26 April
19:30 Dome Room
Our festival launch concert featuring works new works by featured guests Brona Martin and Nicholas Bullen, Kerry Hagan’s generative audio work, Nyx, Pablo Gav exploration of the Mexican revolution No Rayados and a new piece by Jonty Harrison composed for the BEASTdome.
| Jonty Harrison | Petit Prélude Parallèle (World Premiere) |
| Giulia Vismara | paraphernalia |
| Adrian Baker | 1125 S-H |
| Kerry Hagan | nyx |
| Brona Martin | A Bit Closer to Home |
| Emma Margetson | morweninggg |
| Alejandro Albornoz | Sheffield 17 |
| Nicholas Bullen | Of One Element |
| Pablo Gav | No-Rayados |
Friday 27 April
13.10 Barber Concert Hall
Organist Mari Fukimoto performs a programme of works for organ featuring music by Peter Ablinger, Bach, Ligeti and a new piece for organ and electronics by Lauren Redhead. This is the first of three concerts featuring organ and electronics as part of the Sonus ex Machina project.
| Lauren Redhead | seo nídhæmestre; se tidfara |
| Peter Ablinger | Orgel und Weltempfänger |
| Bach | Chromatic Fantasia (Fantasia only) |
| Ligeti | Continuum |
15:00 Dome Room
Installation
| James Opstad | Shimmer |
19:00 Elgar Concert Hall
This concert features new electronic works for organ and electronics by Scott Wilson and Charlie Lockwood, Brona Martin’s Beyond the Lakes which responds to industry, community and the environment, and Nicholas Bullen’s Imprint / Aspects.
| Scott Wilson | Music for Manic Machines |
| Charlie Lockwood | The Bones of the Earth |
| Nicholas Bullen | Imprint / Aspects |
| Helene Hedsund | Fem Slaf (Five Species) |
| Brona Martin | Beyond The Lakes |
20:45 Elgar Concert Hall
This late night concert features audiovisual work from Rennie Tullis and Andrew Hill alongside music by Vortichez, Manuella Blackburn and Andrew Lewis. The evening will conclude with Rafał Zapała’s epic organ and video work Scrolling to Zero.
| Rafał Zapała | Scrolling to Zero |
| Andrew Hill | incandescence |
| Andrew Lewis | Skyline |
| Manuella Blackburn | Snap Happy |
| Vortichez | Hatshepsut’s Harem |
| Tullis Rennie | Carioca Sound Stories |
Saturday 28 April
16:00 Elgar Concert Hall
This concert features PianoHertz, the first of two pieces in Saturday’s performances by guest artist Horacio Vaggione, Abwesenheit by John Young, which explores the historical resonance of sound, and a live performance from Erik Nyström.
| Horacio Vaggione | PianoHertz |
| Nikki Sheth | Paddabolela |
| Hayley Suviste | Kinesis |
| Erik Nyström | Posthuman Nature |
| John Young | Abwesenheit |
20:00 Elgar Concert Hall
We close the festival with a diverse concert featuring the second of Vaggione’s works Mécanique des fluides, Signal Residuals by Nicholas Bullen, Jorge Garcia’s Carmen, based on memories of the Bogatazo, and Simon Le Boggit’s comment on human rights, Namequake.
| Savannah Agger | Landschaften I |
| Horacio Vaggione | Mécanique des fluides |
| Nicholas Bullen | Signal Residuals |
| Brona Martin | NightEscape |
| Simon Le Boggit | NameQuake |
| Jorge Garcia | Carmen |
| Neal Farwell | Echoes |
| Nikos Stavropoulos | Karst Grotto |