https://www.creativesacrosssussex.com/listings/events/?archive=1&user=7330&view=rss Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/hcmf-2021/ hcmf// 2021 is a return to live programming, a reunion of artists and audiences with the festival’s hometown. We’re excited to be back to presenting performances in immense concert spaces like Huddersfield Town Hall, St ... Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/computer-as-composer-free-workshop/ Computer as Composer in partnership with ICA and Huddersfield Art Gallery Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield Weds 29 April, 2-5pm FREE ENTRY - no musical or programming expertise necessary Sound artist... Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/toast-it/ Toast It! For participants aged 13-16 years This year hcmf// is working with the team that produced the book and film, Sound System Culture. The project documents and examines the culture that developed from the Ca... Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/up-in-the-mountains/ Up in the Mountains Interactive Music Theatre for Children Monday 23 November Hudawi Centre, 12:30pm + 2pm The team who brought us Korall Koral in 2012 return, this time with a participatory performance piece e... Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/sound-system/ Sunday 29 November Creative Arts Building Atrium, 1pm - 4pm This year, hcmf// will be working with the team that produced the book and film, Sound System Culture. The project documents and examines the culture that w... Sat, 28 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/just-a-vibration/ Bates Mill Blending Shed, 11am Indian bass guitarist, Shri Sriram, will be visiting hcmf// with the project Just a Vibration, creating ground-breaking new music fusing the traditions of Brass Bands and Indian Classica... Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/music-at-play/ Monday 23 November Heritage Quay, 10am - 11.30am hcmf//'s partnership with Heritage Quay continues as we jointly host further family activity on Free Monday, as well as a workshop exploring the archive with local col... Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/british-music-collection-tours/ Wednesday 25 + Friday 27 November Heritage Quay, 11am hcmf// is teaming up with Heritage Quay to offer a tour of the incredible British Music Collection, which we are lucky to have housed at the University of Hudders... Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/auditory-recollections/ Friday 27 November Heritage Quay, 2pm hcmf// is keen to hear your stories about the Festival. Do you have a memory attached to a specific Festival or event? Did hcmf// spark an important life event for you, creative ... Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/huddersfield-contemporary-music-festival/ hcmf// - the UK's largest international festival of experimental and new music. The 38th hcmf// promises a programme filled with cutting-edge music from a host of leading international composers and performers, includ... Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/arditti-quartet-jennifer-walshe/ hcmf// 2016’s opening concert pairs the Arditti Quartet – one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary string quartets – with adventurous Irish composer Jennifer Walshe for the first UK performance of her most recent w... Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/ensemble-musikfabrik-peter-brotzmann-solos-1/ Contemporary music powerhouse Ensemble Musikfabrik are dedicated to artistic innovation, with new and unknown works a staple of their productions. hcmf// is delighted to welcome them back to Huddersfield to see them join... Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/dublin-guitar-quartet/ Formed in 2001 after meeting at the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama, the Dublin Guitar Quartet forgo the classic guitar repertoire to perform important works by international composers. At hcmf//2016 they go elect... Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/walking-with-partch-solos-2/ Ensemble Musikfabrik bring four of the iconic Partch instruments to Huddersfield to perform the world premiere of a new work by Claudia Molitor – Walking with Partch – which aims to unsettle the standard compositional pa... Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/klangforum-wien-arditti-quartet-haas/ Two institutes of contemporary music come together in this performance to showcase two new works by hcmf//2016 Composer in Residence Georg Friedrich Haas. Guest soloist, Mollena Lee Williams-Haas – whose experience of al... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/trombone-unit-hannover-haas/ hcmf// is delighted to welcome the Trombone Unit Hannover to Huddersfield with a programme featuring two works by Composer in Residence George Friedrich Haas, including the UK premiere of his Octet for Trombone. The Unit... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/body-opera/ hcmf// returns to The Hepworth Wakefield to a present a brand new work – produced in partnership with Warsaw’s Nowy Teatr – by Polish composer Wojtek Blecharz. Blecharz’s opera is a living organism, growing as a limb... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/klangforum-wien/ Following their acclaimed performance in 2015, hcmf// is delighted to welcome Austria’s leading contemporary music ensemble back to Huddersfield. Since forming in 1985, the ensemble has premiered over 500 new pieces by c... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/london-sinfonietta-fama/ When Beat Furrer’s FAMA was premiered in Germany in 2005 it was hailed as ‘a miracle’ by Die Zeit. Now, after a decade of performances across Europe, this masterpiece of sound theatre finally arrives in the UK. Based... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/philip-thomas-with-students-from-the-university-of-huddersfield/ Celebrating Michael Finnissy's 70th birthday year, this programme presents two recent works typically provocative in title and content, reflecting the composer's continued engagement with and response to contemporary lif... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/explore-ensemble/ Explore Ensemble make their debut at hcmf// presenting Gérard Grisey’s iconic work Talea, ou la machine et les herbes folles. Grisey composed Talea in 1986 not long after completing his vast cycle, Les espaces acoustique... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/ailis-ni-rian-skloni-te/ Sklonište is an alternative reflection on the longest siege in modern warfare in which 13,952 people were killed in a thriving, multi-cultural, artistic city in South-Eastern Europe. Sklonište is a visual and musical ess... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/robert-bentall-mario-duarte/ This concert features two pieces developed across the course of the Sound and Music Embedded programme with CMMAS Mexico and The University of Huddersfield. Both pieces operate on a theme of portmanteau exploring the ble... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/revolution-ensemble/ Revolution Ensemble is a Montreal-based experimental performance group dedicated to pushing physical and musical boundaries through radical improvisation, innovative electronics and interdisciplinary collaboration. Core ... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/raphael-roginski/ Guitarist Raphael Roginski has studied the mystical movements of African composers and poets from the first touch of the string to the sounds that are still being created today. Though his music sounds like something new... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/salt/ A vocal performance over the salt from the tears of seventeen years of grief - it’s now on sale. This fragmented story is the base of a performance for voice and video-controlled live electronics. The SALT variations dea... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/andrew-crossley/ Koan #2 is part of an ongoing series of text scores, realized across a variety of media. For this performance, an instrument has been specially built by Tom Fox of Vulpestruments. Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/trio-kimmig-studer-zimmerlin-john-butcher/ Trio Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin, together with John Butcher, abandon the classical realm. Strings are bowed, pulled, struck and scratched, the entire instrument, from neck to tailpiece, is used as a resonating body. As a ma... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/liane-radigue-occam-hexa-iv/ Éliane Radigue is a pioneer of electronic music, but since the turn of the century she has moved into acoustic music with a unique method of composition that focusses on everything that can't be written down. Five of her... Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/elision/ By definition ‘elision’ is the ‘process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas’ and this Australian ensemble has been doing just that for 30 years. The ensemble will perform Aaron Cassidy’s newe... Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/the-stone-orchestra/ The Stone Orchestra was formed in 2014 as a result of the varied activities of the Association for Stone Music, whose goal is to connect innovative instrument builders, composers and musicians in order to rethink the sou... Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/christian-weber-joke-lanz-berlin-tapes/ Music for romantic serial killers, schizophrenic atomic physicists, Catholics tired of life, burnt out aerobics instructors, un-christened squatters and for all the needy ones. With radical treatment of their instrum... Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/red-note-ensemble/ Red Note Ensemble has teamed up with composer, writer and visual artist François Sarhan to make a new work for string quartet…with a difference! Played on a set of new, invented stringed instruments designed by the compo... Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/marianne-schuppe-slow-songs/ Primarily a singer and composer, Marianne Schuppe works across solo and ensemble platforms. Written in 11 parts, her slow songs are simple melodies with words and music full of unexpected, almost surreal twists, fusing t... Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/distractfold/ Distractfold present a concert of works selected from their recent residency at the 47th International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt, alongside highlights from their most recent season. This music embraces the m... Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/tony-conrad-completely-in-the-present/ A special evening dedicated to the late American artist Tony Conrad (1940 – 2016) hcmf// celebrates the life and work of pioneering artist, composer, musician, and filmmaker Tony Conrad who expanded disciplinary bound... Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/seth-parker-woods/ Inspired by musique concrète founder Pierre Schaeffer, Seth Parker Woods presents a raw sonic mosaic of new works for solo cello and electronics featuring composers Edward Hamel, George Lewis, Alvin Singleton and Pierre ... Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/ensemble-resonanz-elliott-sharp-gareth-davis/ Regarded as one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras, Ensemble Resonanz works to bridge the gap between tradition and the present time. At their first appearance in Huddersfield since 2012, the ensemble will be join... Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/the-spike-orchestra/ The Spike Orchestra make their hcmf// debut with a big band realisation of John Zorn’s monumental and legendary Masada Book Two project. Led by composers Sam Eastmond and Nikki Franklin, the UK-based Spike Orchestra boas... Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/richard-uttley/ Following his sell-out performance at hcmf// 2015, Richard Uttley returns to his native Huddersfield with a programme of works concerned with perspective – rhythm, time and distance, live and recorded sound, object and s... Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/ailie-robertson/ Scottish composer, improviser and experimental musician Ailie Robertson uses harp and electronics to create works that span contemporary-classical, free jazz, folk and improvised music and sound art. Using layers of exte... Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/percy-pursglove-tender-buttons-objects-food-rooms/ Following his hcmf// debut in 2014, performing alongside Evan Parker, Percy Pursglove returns to Huddersfield – joined by Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen – with the world premiere of hcmf// commission Tender Buttons: Ob... Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/quatuor-diotima/ Celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, Quatuor Diotima have built a lasting reputation and become one of the world’s most in demand ensembles. hcmf// 2016 sees them return to Huddersfield with a programme of premi... Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/part-wild-horses-mane-on-both-sides/ Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols are part wild horses mane on both sides, a consistently idiosyncratic and adventurous free music group. Hailing from the north of England via France they have the ability to induce he... Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/return-to-the-ark/ A special live broadcast from hcmf// which places at its core homage to the legendary cult Japanese ensemble, Sound-Space Ark – which at various moments included amongst its personnel Tora Takemitsu, Jo Kondo and Bunita ... Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/mark-knoop-juliet-fraser-palmipsests/ Palimpsests is a new programme for voice and piano that re-imagines the song cycle: Bernhard Lang and Michael Finnissy explore concepts of collage and remembrance in new works written for Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop. ... Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/ensemble-vortex/ Formed in Switzerland in 2005 from a core membership of Conservatoire de Genève alumni, Ensemble Vortex are recognised for their work with live electronics, their energetic commitment to the promotion of unknown composer... Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/pre-concert-talk-jennifer-walshe/ Avant composer Jennifer Walshe discusses her collaboration with the Arditti Quartet and the continuing engagement with film as an integral part of her practice ahead of the UK premiere of her critically acclaimed new wor... Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/coffee-with-the-composer-claudia-molitor/ Claudia Molitor is often described as a ‘conceptual composer’, operating in the spaces between visual art and music. Recent large-scale works such as Sonorama (Turner Contemporary Margate) and The Singing Bridge (Waterlo... Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativekirklees.com/hcmf/meet-the-composer-georg-friedrich-haas/ hcmf// invites you to meet this year’s Composer in Residence, Georg Friedrich Haas. Born in Graz, Austria in 1953 Haas has quietly risen to become one of the most important Austrian composers internationally, heralded by...