Join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for an evening of music from some of Manchester’s most exciting musicians. Trio Atem, the Raise Your Voice Ensemble and Efpi Records’ 265 Quartet present a broad range of music moving from experimental and contemporary classical music to jazz.

Venue

International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY (map)

Friday 7 October 2011
Doors: 6:30pm, Music: 7:00pm
Tickets: £3

Line-up

• Clapping Music — Steve Reich
• Durations II — Morton Feldman
• In Freundschaft — Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Ring of Light — Malcolm Hayes
• Small Atlas — Chris Swithinbank

Raise Your Voice Ensemble // Jenny Dyson (flute), Jon Guy (clarinet), Michael Jones (violin), Alice Purton (cello), Rebecca Lea (soprano)

• Seven Face Pictures (selection) — Tom Coult
• only — Morton Feldman
• Moon Phase — Ian Vine
• pneuma.pistis — Martin Iddon
• Duets for Storab — Harrison Birtwistle
• Masque: Continu — Toru Takemitsu
• Récitations (selection) — Georges Aperghis
• Projection I — Morton Feldman
• Vinyl Radical — Michael Mayhew

Trio Atem // Gavin Osborn (flute), Nina Whiteman (voice), Alice Purton (cello)

• Set of jazz-classical improvisation

265 Quartet // Graham South (flugelhorn), Anton Hunter (guitar), Rod Skipp (cello), Ben Cottrell (clarinet)

Tickets

We’re pleased to announce a new concert. On Friday 7 October at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Raise Your Voice Collective present an evening of music from Trio Atem, the Raise Your Voice Ensemble and Efpi Records’ 265 Quartet, a fascinating world where experimental and contemporary classical music mingle with jazz. More details soon!

Thanks to all those involved and everyone who came to see our exhibition Cities of Sound at FutureEverything Festival two weeks ago. For posterity, here are some photos from the exhibition at Kraak Gallery. (Photos by Sam Salem & FutureEverything.)

You can also find a few photos and a video of Pond Life on Fat Roland’s blog.

Read more about the artworks in our exhibition booklet (PDF, 750kb)

How do we hear? What do we hear? How do we shape our sonic environment? More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, but do we notice what our new habitats sound like? How does human presence impact on the acoustic reality? Raise Your Voice Collective present an interactive engagement with ideas of the city, living and lived-in systems, the facts of urban life, and the sounds that these produce.

Venue

Kraak Gallery • 11, Stevenson Square, Manchester, M1 1DB (map)
Open daily: 11am – 6pm

Opening Night

Join the Raise Your Voice Ensemble from 6:30pm on 11 May for a special performed introduction to the exhibition, featuring new compositions, improvisations and experimental electronics, plus a laptop and Bugbrand Modular Synthesizer set from special guest Richard Scott reflecting on the sounds of Manchester past and present.

Artworks

Pond Life III — Patrick Sanan & Sam Salem

A collaboration between Californian mathematician Patrick Sanan and Manchester-based composer and artist Sam Salem, Pond Life presents viewers with a tactile interactive experience. Using programming that mimics evolutionary systems, the luminous interface projected onto a tank of water allows visitors to interact with an ecosystem whose behaviour reveals perhaps the paths of humanity’s earliest migrations and the first foundations of settlements as the digital organisms gather around precious natural resources, represented by different coloured light. [http://www.sanansalem.com/]

Hô: a Sonic Expedition to Vietnam — Ricardo Climent

Hô presents the gallery visitor with the opportunity to navigate their way through an imaginary sonic expedition to Vietnam. Using a large steering wheel reminiscent of that of an old sailing ship, the viewer moves their way through a series of audiovisual puzzles uncovering in the process the unique soundworld and culture of Vietnam.
Hô employs open-source software techniques to offer the gallery visitor a computer-game-like experience in which the usual visual parameters are relegated in importance in favour of a focus on acoustic exploration.

A Scrapbook of Metro Sounds — Kaho Cheung

Whether known as le métro or the underground, the subway or rapid transit, the sound of trains rattling through tunnels is a key feature of the soundscapes of many of the world’s biggest cities. From 2007 to 2010, artist and composer Kaho Cheung travelled around the world collecting recordings of these transport systems. The installation A Scrapbook of Metro Sounds allows the gallery visitor to make virtual acoustic journeys between Helsinki, Tokyo, Bangkok, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Hong Kong, New York, Athens, Barcelona, San Francisco and Valencia, revealing in the process a globalised network of similar sounds, but also the subtle cultural variations in the deployment of this most everyday of technologies.

Plus: Field recordings and tape music.

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.