BEAST FEAST 2017 Figure | Landscape | Seascape | Sky

Our festival launch features works by Matthusen and Tremblay’s improv duo light.box

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.

Featured artist Sarah Farmer performs
the latest incarnation of 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 with University of Birmingham Gravitational Wave physicists. Newly adapted for the immersive BEASTdome sound system, this performance invites the audience to come and go as they please.

This late night event includes Simon Emmerson’s Aeolian, and featured artist Paula Matthusen’s Rising Divergence for video with xed and live electronic sound.

Keynote Address by Simon Emmerson

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.

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.