Raise Your Voice @ FutureEverything

Raise Your Voice at Centro BarOur second night at Centro Bar took place on Friday 14 May as part of the Fu­tur­eEverything Fest­ival Show­case. Thanks to everyone who came down and made the evening such a suc­cess. Sorry to those of you who had to stand on the stairs, but it was fant­astic to have such a great audi­ence again! We dis­covered that Centro gets pretty noisy up­stairs on a Friday night, but for the most part the music prevailed.

For those of you who couldn’t make it or would like to hear the music again, most of the pieces from the night are now avail­able on­line to stream and down­load:

  1. I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life — Luke-Matthew Iveson
  2. Avian RiotsTom Coult
  3. Pas­sacaglieMartin Suck­ling
  4. Dub­steps — John Davies
  5. Richter VS DragonSteve Pycroft

The down­load comes with PDFs of the event flyer and the pro­gramme with in­form­a­tion about all the Raise Your Voice com­posers and players, as well as track-specific art.

Simon Bray kindly came down and took some photos, some of which you can see here. Check out Simon’s Flickr Pho­to­stream for more of his pho­to­graphy. Look how many people there were!

Raise Your Voice Ensemble Performing John Davies's Dubsteps at Centro Bar (Photos by Simon Bray)

Raise Your Voice Ensemble performing John Davies's Dubsteps at Centro Bar (Photo by Simon Bray)

Performing Martin Suckling's Passacaglie at Centro Bar (Photo by Simon Bray)Raise Your Voice @ FutureEverything at Centro Bar

Raise Your Voice Ensemble performing Tom Coult's Avian Riots at Centro Bar (Photo by Simon Bray)

Steve Pycroft and Al Sonar during Steve's Richter VS Dragon (Photo by Simon Bray)

The next Raise Your Voice per­form­ance will prob­ably be in September 2010. Keep your eyes peeled and in the mean­time, have a listen to our live re­cord­ings. Take care!

Friday 14 May, 8:00pm: Raise Your Voice Ensemble @ Centro Bar

The Raise Your Voice En­semble per­form new works from Manchester’s rich and varied of­fering of com­posers, mixing acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sound, as part of the Fu­tur­eEverything Fest­ival Show­case. Come and ex­per­i­ence chal­len­ging and ori­ginal music in the re­laxed at­mo­sphere of Centro Bar in the Northern Quarter (next door to Matt & Phred’s). Fol­lowed later by chilled DJ sets from Al Sonar (of Hit&Run). Read More »

Raise Your Voice Plug on Classic FM

Classic FM LogoCom­poser Martin Suck­ling whose cello and elec­tronics piece, Pas­sacaglie, we are per­forming at our night on Friday 14 May gave an in­ter­view to Classic FM last week about his music and cur­rent pro­jects, in­cluding Raise Your Voice. Listen to and down­load the in­ter­view here. He men­tions Raise Your Voice right at the end, but have a listen to the whole thing and get a feel for one of the seven com­posers we’ll be show­casing in May.

Line-Up Announced for Friday 14 May

FutureEverything LogoWe are pleased to be able to un­veil the pro­gramme for our night on Friday 14 May as part of the Fu­tur­eEverything Fest­ival Show­case. We had a won­derful re­sponse to our first ever open call for works and it wasn’t easy picking out our final pro­gramme, but we are very ex­cited to be per­forming the fol­lowing pieces at Centro Bar that night:

  • Pas­sacaglie, for cello and elec­tronics — Martin Suck­ling
  • I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life, for cla­rinet and kick drum — Luke-Matthew Iveson
  • The Golden Lion Hotel, for per­cus­sion and elec­tronics — Chris Swith­in­bank
  • Avian Riots, for en­semble — Tom Coult
  • Richter VS Dragon, for en­semble and backing track — Steve Pycroft
  • Aqueleyo-yo, for string quartet — José Puello
  • Dub­steps, for string quartet — John Davies

These will be fol­lowed by a set from DJ Al Sonar of Hit&Run fame. Keep your eyes peeled for more de­tails about the night coming soon.

Call for Works Deadline This Friday

Don’t miss our call for works. Make sure you get your music to us by this Friday (9 April) for the chance to have it per­formed by the Raise Your Voice En­semble at Fu­tur­eEverything Fest­ival. More de­tails…