We are ex­cited to an­nounce that Raise Your Voice will be taking part in this year’s Fu­tur­eEverything Fest­ival in more than one way.

Fol­lowing our ap­pear­ance at last year’s fest­ival, this year sees an in­nov­ative pro­ject that com­bines an ex­hib­i­tion of sound in­stall­a­tions with live per­form­ance under the title Cities of Sound. From 11–14 May, Kraak Gal­lery will host in­ter­na­tion­ally re­cog­nised works by Manchester-based artists — in­cluding Sam Salem and Patrick Sanan’s Pond Life III — ex­ploring ideas of the city, living and lived-in sys­tems, the facts of urban life, and the sounds these pro­duce. An opening night on 11 May will offer a per­formed in­tro­duc­tion to the ex­hib­i­tion, in­cluding new com­pos­i­tions, ex­per­i­mental elec­tronics and im­pro­visa­tions in­volving the sound in­stall­a­tions themselves.

Sep­arate from the main Raise Your Voice event, Mi­chael Jones (vi­olin) and Anna Men­zies (cello) will be joining fellow Fu­tur­eEverything Show­case win­ners The Elec­tronic Ex­change on Friday 13 May for an ex­clusive pro­ject also in­volving mem­bers of Manchester Cam­erata. Themes of playful ex­per­i­ment­a­tion and re­mote working will cul­minate as the artists all meet for the first time to per­form to­gether a series of pieces that they have been de­vel­oping in an on­line space. There are more de­tails on The Elec­tronic Ex­change on the Fu­tur­eEverything web­site and you can buy tickets here.

We will be an­noun­cing de­tails of the full pro­gramme in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled.