Information on the UK première of Chris Swithinbank’s Small Atlas by the Raise Your Voice Ensemble on Friday 7 October 2011.
The collective I co-founded, Raise Your Voice, has just announced its latest venture: an exhibition of sound installations plus live performance entitled Cities of Sound as part of FutureEverything Festival 2011. Read more »
My percussion and electronics piece, The Golden Lion Hotel, premiered at the end of April is being reprised by Steve Pycroft and myself at the Raise Your Voice Collective’s FutureEverything Showcase appearance on Friday 14 May 2010. The programme also includes a whole host of other Manchester-based composers. Listings: Facebook / Last.fm / Official page […]
The Quatuor Danel were back in Manchester last week with two composers, Henry Fourès and Catherine Seba, in tow. Their two concerts included Bruno Mantovani’s piano quintet, Blue girl with red wagon (with Richard Whalley on piano), Seba’s string quartet with tape, Quivering, Fourès playing Luc Ferrari’s À la recherche du rhythme perdu, for solo […]
Raise Your Voice Collective, which I help run, have just announced the line-up for their second outing of contemporary classical, experimental electronics and chilled-out beats at Centro Bar in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. It’s an exciting mix, stretching from Martin Suckling’s Passacaglie for cello and electronics originally written to make use of the Hyperbow developed at […]