Sound and Music: The First Season by Sound and Music

The First Season soundandmusic.org

Welcome to the first season of Sound and Music! It is now five years since the first plans to bring together several of the UK’s leading players promoting new music and sound began to be discussed in earnest. At the end of 2008, these finally became reality with the foundation of our brand new company. All four of the founders, British Music Information Centre (bmic), Contemporary Music Network (CMN), the Society for the Promotion of New Music (spnm) and Sonic Arts Network (SAN) are unanimous in the view that the future of new music and sound in the UK is better served by our coming together into Sound and Music, dedicated to the building of audiences for the work in which we and our colleagues and partners believe in so passionately. We are delighted to be starting out on our new life in the beautiful and historic surroundings of Somerset House. And whilst we are settling into our home, we are launching an innovative virtual destination for all those interested in the work we champion. The Sound and Music website (soundandmusic.org) will provide a unique concentration of resources, with opportunities for artists, composers and practitioners to upload their work via our on-line community, comprehensive listings of events, video, multi-media and digital platforms, and details of all Sound and Music activities. And whilst the identities of the four founders have now become Sound and Music, many of the key festivals, tours, live event series, professional development and learning opportunities continue, with an extraordinarily full programme scheduled into 2010 and beyond. Sound and Music exists to make a difference, to deepen the engagement of our audiences with innovative and sometimes challenging work, and to win new audiences. I hope that you will share our excitement and enthusiasm for this much-needed project, and join with us in celebrating the richness and diversity of new music and sound. Matthew Greenall Executive Director, Sound and Music

Sound and Music: The First Season May – July 2OO9 At a glance

Raga Mela London 6 May Pg 4 5 Phrased & Confused UK Tour 9 – 14 May Pg 6 7 Fertilizer Festival London and UK Tour 12 – 17 May in London 13 – 18 May UK Tour Pg 8 9 The Sound Source: Turned Off, Tuned Out London 12 May Pg 10 11 The Sound Source: Yannis Kyriakides’ The Sounds Of Unsounds Belfast 13 May Pg 12 13 Sublime Frequencies UK Tour 20 – 30 May Pg 14 15 The Sound Source: Plundering Žižek And Silent Disco London 9 June Pg 16 17

Cut & Splice: Living Rooms London 19 – 20 June Pg 18 19 Cutting Edge Tour Corsham, Wiltshire 21, 23 & 26 June Pg 20 21 Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna Manchester 10 – 19 July Pg 22 23 Apollo London 20 – 21 July Pg 24 25 Supersonic Festival Birmingham 24 – 26 July Pg 26 27 Plus there’s more to Sound and Music’s programme than live events: Digital Knowledge And Resources Learning And Participation Pg 28 29

Raga Mela

A feast of India with the spirit of the West! Immerse yourself in a whirlwind of Indian culture with a classical twist. Create your own raga, have a go at playing the tabla or enjoy a Bollywood film in The Clore Ballroom during the afternoon. Hear the best musicians and composers with the BBC Concert Orchestra alongside Bollywood playback singers in an evening designed under the artistic direction of Kuljit Bhamra. See how beautiful and moving, beguiling to the ear and exciting to the eye Indian ragas can be. Each raga scale relates to a particular mood and time of day. Recitals are always performed by virtuosos, and because of the improvisational and soloistic style of the musicians, every performance is unique and cannot be repeated. Dance to a fresh mix of Bollywood and bhangra faves as DJ Ritu (BBC London, A World in London) recreates her legendary Kuch Kuch.. clubnight.

Matinee Stage

The Clore Ballroom from 2PM DevDas (PG), 2PM Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali Bollywood film featuring playback singer Kavita Krishnamurti Plus there’s so much more to explore in the Matinee stage… – Computer stations to explore ragas and compose your own – Indian instruments for you to try out – Readings by authors from the Progressive Writers Association Free admission, no ticket required

Main Stage

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30PM BBC Concert Orchestra Kuljit Bhamra tabla & curator Jonathan Mayer sitar Kartik Raghunathan vocals & violin Robert Ziegler conductor Meera Syal presenter Plus young musicians from Harrow and Ealing schools. Classic Bollywood songs with playback singers and the BBC Concert Orchestra, alongside newly-composed pieces by Kuljit Bhamra, Richard Glover, Graham Ross, Matthew Sergeant and Charlie Usher. Expect the roof to be raised when hundreds of young people from across West London schools join in to sing some classic Bollywood songs. £24/£20/£16/£12. Family & Friends Supersaver: Buy 4 tickets, sit in the best seats for £60.

Aftershow

The Clore Ballroom from 10PM Kuch Kuch... London’s premier & original Bollywood club The legendary DJ Ritu mixes that magical blend of Bollywood and bhangra beats. Free admission, no ticket required

RagaExplorer.com

Learn more about ragas, have a go at creating your own with ragaexplorer.com For more information visit bbc.co.uk/concertorchestra brought to you by Sound and Music. Visit ragaexplorer.com

Date

Wednesday 6 May from 2PM Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London To book through Southbank Centre call 0871 6632500 or visit southbankcentre.co.uk To book through See call 0871 6204027 (calls cost 10 per min) or visit seetickets.com

Raga Mela is produced by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Sound and Music, with support from BBC Radio 3 and BBC Asian Network.

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Phrased & Confused

Which comes first? The music or the words? Woodpigeon Murray Lachlan Young Aoife Mannix and Janie Armour Dead Poets

What’s your thing – the music or the words? With bite size chunks of song-writing genius, poetic wit and beauty, Phrased & Confused offers you an irresistible evening guaranteed to stop you in your tracks and command your total attention. For this national tour, P&C have invited some of the most exciting contemporary songwriters and poets to climb aboard the tour bus, get lyrical and explore the spaces between poetry and music. Expect a night of blissed-out pop, dark satire, exuberant wordplay and new collaborations from four very different artists working together for the first time. Woodpigeon Championed by Steve Lamacq, and described by the Guardian as ‘Canada’s best kept secret… the most unjustly overlooked band in Canada’, music collective Woodpigeon are rapidly gaining a cult following for their laid back and lush folk pop – think a semi-acoustic Arcade Fire or full band version of Sufjan Stevens. Murray Lachlan Young A brilliant, darkly funny satirist, Murray is a regular at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, penned the cult hit ‘simply everyone is taking cocaine’, supported the Pet Shop Boys and is a resident rhymer with the BBC’s Saturday Live. Aoife Mannix & Janie Armour With nods to Patti Smith, John Cooper Clarke and Tom Waits, poet Aofie Mannix and accordianist Janie Armour mix live and recorded sounds to create evocative and beautifully haunting soundscapes. Deadpoets Unleashed on a national audience for the first time, Dead Poets are a cheeky fastpaced and laugh-out-loud mash up of ‘proper’ poetry and sharp-eyed MCing, courtesy of Mr Mark Grist and MC Mixy. phrasedandconfused.co.uk Phrased & Confused is produced by the hub

Dates Saturday 9 May BRACKNELL South Hill Park southhillpark.org.uk 01344 484123

Tuesday 12 May STOCKTON ON TEES Arc arconline.co.uk 01642 525199

Sunday 10 May LONDON Cross Kings wegottickets.com 020 7278 8318

Wednesday 13 May DERBY Assembly Rooms derbylive.co.uk 01332 2255800

Monday 11 May NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre norwichartscentre.co.uk 01603 660352

Thursday 14 May EXETER Phoenix exeterphoenix.org.uk 01392 667080

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Fertilizer Festival

Good shit from Poland Sing Sing Penelope Jacaszek Contemporary Noise Sextet Pink Freud & Pete Wareham Małe Instrumenty Fisz Mitch & Mitch Baaba + Sound Postcards Exhibition & Film Programme ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Fertilizer celebrates the unique, the adventurous and the freshest new music from around the world, presenting a boutique showcase of music events, exhibitions, films and more, in venues across London’s East End. Following in the footsteps of its genre-busting predecessors, good shit from Norway, Britain, Germany and France, the fifth Fertilizer Festival introduces the very best musicians from the Polish scene. Join us for a head-spinning trip around what’s hot from Warsaw to Wroclaw, taking in some of the country’s most distinctive artists, including Baaba, Fisz, Małe Instrumenty and Mitch & Mitch. For the first time this year, with Sound and Music’s support, the festival will leave its London base and take to the road with a special touring line up. Fertilizer on tour features a triple bill of Jacaszek, whose evocative electronica combines voice, strings and electronics to sublime effect, post-rock jazzers Sing Sing Penelope and leading contemporary jazz ensemble Contemporary Noise Sextet. Plus Polish film screenings in Bristol and Norwich. In addition to going out on the road, another Fertilizer first this year is the commissioning of a musical collaboration between Polish contemporary jazz outfit Pink Freud and superb UK saxophonist Pete Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland / Polar Bear / Final Terror). Pete will jet off to Gdansk in April for rehearsals and gigs ahead of two collaborative performances in London and Leeds. Find out first... the latest Fertilizer news, exclusive offers, artist interviews. Everything you need to know, fertilizerfestival.com

“The Fertilizer festival is a short, sharp blast of air from another planet.” The Guardian Fertilizer is produced by sounduk and the hub sounduk.net / thehubuk.com

Saturday 16 May LONDON Małe Instrumenty Hoxton Hall 2.30PM (3PM) and 7.30PM (8PM) Tickets 2.30PM £5 or £15 family ticket (2 adults, 2 children), 7.30PM £8

Fertilizer on Tour

Wednesday 13 May LONDON Fertilizer Music Forum Rich Mix 10.30AM–5.00PM richmix.org.uk

LONDON Film screening My Nikifor / Moj Nikifor Rich Mix 4.00PM Tickets £7/£5.50 concs richmix.org.uk

Wednesday 13 May NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre Tickets £10/8 norwichartscentre.co.uk

LONDON British Polish Jazz Collaboration Pink Freud & Pete Wareham Contemporary Noise Sextet Cargo 7.30PM (8PM) Tickets £8 wegottickets.com

BRISTOL Film screening Hope / Nadzieja The Wedding / Wesele Arnolfini 5.30PM & 7.30PM Tickets £5.50 arnolfini.org.uk

LONDON Film screening The Wedding / Wesele Rich Mix 7.30PM Tickets £7 / £5.50 concs richmix.org.uk

Sunday 17 May LONDON Film screening Extras / Statysci Rich Mix 4.00PM Tickets £7/£5.50 concs richmix.org.uk

Dates Tuesday 12 – Sunday 17 May LONDON Sound Postcards Exhibition Rich Mix 10AM–9PM Tickets Free admission richmix.org.uk

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Thursday 14 May LEEDS British Polish Jazz Collaboration Pink Freud & Pete Wareham / Contemporary Noise Sextet Howard Assembly Rooms operanorth.co.uk ––––––––––––––––––––––––

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LONDON Fisz + Mitch & Mitch Cargo 7.30PM (8PM) Tickets £10 wegottickets.com ––––––––––––––––––––––––

Monday 18 May NORWICH Film screening We’re All Christs / Wszyscy jestesmy Chrystusami Cinema City 8.30PM

Sing Sing Penelope Jacaszek Contemporary Noise Sextet

Thursday 14 May LONDON Cargo Doors 7.30PM (8PM) Tickets £8 wegottickets.com Friday 15 May BRISTOL Arnolfini Doors 8PM Tickets £10 arnolfini.org.uk Saturday 16 May OXFORD The O2 Academy Doors 7PM Tickets £10 01865 305305 ocmevents.org Sunday 17 May LIVERPOOL The Picket Doors 7.30PM Tickets £12 liverpoolphil.com Monday 18 May GATESHEAD The Sage Doors 8PM Tickets £10 0191 4434661 thesagegateshead.org

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The Sound Source: Turned Off,Tuned Out Featuring Andrew Lampert ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

An intermingled evening featuring performance, prizes, home movies and other pursuits. Andy Lampert makes films and expanded multi-projector performances, curates avant-garde film/ music events, and works as a film archivist. His performances teeter on the brink of chaos, casting aside the usual expectations we might have of film/art/performance/music; replacing them with an unfixed, improvisatory and playful approach. The evening will combine elements of film and live performance, and will include Andy showing some of his own home movies alongside those by local residents and artists. Three experimental musicians – cellist Okkyung Lee (New York), multi-instrumentalist Steve Beresford (London), and trumpeter Peter Evans (New York) – will provide musical accompaniment. The Sound Source is one of the UK’s premier experimental music nights showcasing the best of new composition today. Acoustic/multimedia...composed/improvised... cross-art-form/ collaboration... vocal/DJ... folk/electronic. Each Sound Source event is different but always showcases new and original music. Visit myspace.com/thesoundsource for more information on the series. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Date Tuesday 12 May LONDON Kings Place Doors 7.30PM Performances from 8PM Tickets from £9.50 online / from £11.50 offline (price increases nearer event date) 020 7520 1490 kingsplace.co.uk

Curated and produced by Sound and Music and no.w.here

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The Sound Source: Yannis Kyriakides’ The Sounds of Unsounds Yannis Kyriakides Christine Sehnaoui saxophone Andy Moor guitar Angie Atmadjaja sound artist ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Immerse yourself in a night of slowly evolving sound from the Dutch label, Unsounds. Yannis Kyriakides will lead a programme including the first UK tour of Folia, his new collaboration with guitarist Andy Moor, and perform live sound for #37 with visuals by filmmaker Joost Rekveld. The night will also feature improvised saxophone from Christine Sehnaoui, and an audio and light installation by Angie Atmadjaja. The Sound Source is one of the UK’s premier experimental music nights showcasing the best of new composition today. Acoustic/multimedia... composed/improvised... cross-art-form/ collaboration... vocal/DJ... folk/electronic. Each Sound Source event is different but always showcases new and original music. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Date Wednesday 13 May BELFAST Sonorities Festival qub.ac.uk/sonorities

Curated and produced by Sound and Music

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Sublime Frequencies Tour With Omar Souleyman and Group Doueh + Sublime Frequencies Films, DJ sets and talks with Alan Bishop, Hisham Mayet and Mark Gergis ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The Sublime Frequencies label was founded by Alan Bishop, Mark Gergis (both of Sun City Girls) and Hisham Mayet in 2003, to seek out some of the greatest expressive music from around the globe and let it be heard, seen, respected and recognised. They have travelled compulsively, digging deep for overlooked and forgotten music, searching for artists and groups that move their souls. Folk and pop musicians are sought out, documented and released, capturing ultra-vivid sights and sounds from rural life and urban streets. Radio broadcasts, field recordings and lost archives are also assembled into CD and vinyl releases, all presented in a thrilling and unabashed style. This specially commissioned tour follows in that anarchic tradition, combining street-level folk-pop, over-driven psychedelic meditations, desert blues and Syrian party bangers for a once-in-a-lifetime Sublime Frequencies experience. The line up features two live acts who have released albums on the Sublime Frequencies label; Group Doueh (from the Western Sahara) and Omar Souleyman (from Syria) plus Sublime Frequencies DJ set and on certain dates Sublime Frequencies film screenings and talks. This is a rare opportunity to see the two maverick and genuinely great groups from vastly different traditions and influences playing on the same bill. More info, audio and video at myspace.com/sublimefrequencies2

Produced by Qu Junktions Media Partners The Wire, Vice Magazine

Dates Wednesday 20 May BRIGHTON St George’s Church (Brighton Festival) 7.15PM / £12.50 adv 01273 709709 brightonfestival.org Thursday 21 May BIRMINGHAM Hare & Hounds (Promoted by Capsule) 8PM / £10 theticketsellers.co.uk capsule.org Friday 22 May GLASGOW Stereo 7PM / £10 0870 2201116 tickets-scotland.com Saturday 23 May NEWCASTLE Star & Shadow (Promoted by No-Fi) Films 6PM–7.30PM Music 8PM–12AM / £10 adv seetickets.com no-fi.org.uk

Sunday 24 May BRISTOL Fiddlers (Promoted by Qu Junktions) 8PM–1AM / £9 adv bristolticketshop.co.uk qujunktions.com Monday 25 May FALMOUTH Miss Peapods (Promoted by Lono Records) 8PM–12AM / £10 thepoly.org / 01326 212300 lonorecords.com

Friday 29 May LONDON Tufnell Park Dome (Promoted by Upset The Rhythm) 8PM–2AM / £10 wegottickets.com upsettherhythm.co.uk Saturday 30 May CAMBRIDGE All Saints Church (Palimpsest Festival) 2PM–11PM / £18 adv palimpsest-festival.co.uk

Wednesday 27 May MANCHESTER Mint Lounge (Promoted by Faktion) 9PM–1AM / £8 adv/£10 door (£9 NUS concs on door only) 0161 8398008 boomkat.com faktionmcr.blogspot.com Thursday 28 May NORWICH Arts Centre 8PM–11PM / £10/£8 concs 01603 660352 norwichartscentre.co.uk

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The Sound Source: Plundering Žižek and Silent Disco pianocircus Keyboard Choir Open Source platform for emerging artists ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Celebrate the inspirational thoughts of idiosyncratic philosopher and cultural critic, Slavoj Žižek – ‘the Elvis of Cultural Studies’. pianocircus will perform music by Nancarrow, Federico Reuben, Duncan MacLeod and Colin Riley. There’ll be performances by Keyboard Choir, DJ Grohs, the Dom Lash trio, films by Cory Arcangel and David Blandy and an Open Source platform curated by music orbit, presenting up-and-coming artists. The whole evening is designed to be experienced on multichannel headphones and closes with a Silent Disco. The Sound Source is one of the UK’s premier experimental music nights showcasing the best of new composition today. Acoustic/multimedia... composed/improvised... cross-art-form/ collaboration... vocal/DJ... folk/electronic. Each Sound Source event is different but always showcases new and original music. Visit myspace.com/thesoundsource for more information on the series. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Date Tuesday 9 June LONDON Kings Place Doors 7.30PM Performances from 8PM Tickets from £9.50 online / from £11.50 offline (price increases nearer performance date) 020 7520 1490 kingsplace.co.uk

Curated and produced by Sound and Music

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Cut & Splice: Living Rooms

Exploring the domestic soundscape Mapping the ultra-ordinary The life of a room revealed Performances, installations and broadcast from: Alvin Lucier Aki Onda Jason Lescalleet Brandon LaBelle

CM von Hausswolff and John Duncan The Domestic Appliance Audio Research Society Tape That Bob Levene Felicity Ford Mark Vernon Erik Belgum’s ‘Bad Marriage Mantra’

Over the last six years the annual Cut & Splice festival has established an international reputation for inspired ideas and high-quality production. A free-ranging showcase of electronic music and sound art, it is a thematically curated platform that presents leading international work along with the artists who create it. Cut & Splice presents live, broadcast and online activity, annually altering its focus and format to reveal pioneering sonic art at its best. Under the title ‘Living Rooms’ this year’s festival is proud to welcome one of the most influential figures in experimental music, leading US composer and performer Alvin Lucier. Lucier’s work, which marries aesthetic beauty to the pure physicality of sound, will explore the sonic resonances of Wilton’s Music Hall creating an intense physical experience. Other festival highlights include a live cassette manipulation performance from Aki Onda, a visceral sound collaboration between John Duncan and CM von Hausswolff and an exploration of domestic sound by Jason Lescalleet. Broadcasts Cut & Splice performances and exclusive artist interviews will be broadcast on Radio 3’s Hear and Now on 27 June and 4 July at 10.30PM and will be available through the Listen Again service for one week after broadcast.

“Artistically inspired… Cut & Splice awed.” The Wire Curated and produced by Sound and Music and BBC Radio 3

Photo Amanda Lucier

Dates Friday 19 & Saturday 20 June LONDON Wiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music Hall For festival updates, podcasts artist information and to book tickets please visit cutandsplice.com

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Cutting Edge Tour The 10th Cutting Edge Tour brings outstanding concerts of new music, focused on British composers, to venues throughout the UK. Tour concerts begin life at London’s Cutting Edge series, and then travel across the UK to venues and festivals bringing a flavour of the innovation that is the UK’s creative musical life. Concerts range from solo piano to electronics and often feature collaborations with artists in other media such as dance and visual arts. This month we’re at the excellent Corsham Festival, ‘one of the leading small festivals in the south west’. We’ll be touring throughout the UK during the rest of the year. Please look at the Sound and Music website for more dates. CoMA London ensemble CoMA Corsham Launch event – calling all musicians! CoMA London, directed by Gregory Rose, teams up with local musicians to help launch Corsham’s very own CoMA ensemble. The group will meet to rehearse and perform music especially written for amateur ensemble, including Andrew Poppy’s Playing the Pulse and Robert Szymanek’s I can’t do this without you. These performances are always electrifying, for both performers and audience. Please contact CoMA via coma.org for details of participating. Vauxhall Pleasure Vauxhall Pleasure examines the past and present soundscape of Vauxhall Cross Gyratory – former site of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. Anna Best (visuals) and Paul Whitty (composer) chart the relationship between political protest and entertainment, traffic and pedestrians, pollution, breathing and song. Re-inventions of Arcadian Songs by Thomas Arne (1710 – 1787) meet with the thunderous roar of the internal combustion engine in a film installation and performance by the VP ensemble of soprano, harpsichord, flute and string quartet. Black Hair From delicate and secretive to raucous and confrontational, Black Hair (voice, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion) explores the innate theatre of musical expression. In a programme that makes subtle use of lighting, space and movement, Roger Marsh’s More Silly Love Songs spans the Beatles and early music, while Juliana Hodkinson’s Why linger you trembling in your shell? refines her music down to eggshells and the tiniest of sounds. Vocalist Anna Myatt gives her outstanding take on Georges Aperghis’ Recitations and Damien Harron his on the same composer’s percussion tour-de-force Le Corps à Corps. Harron’s Control Freak, composed with the group, ends the performance with a maniacal singer controlling and driving her musicians to the edge of reason.

Produced by Sound and Music

Dates CoMA Sunday 21st June Vauxhall Pleasure Tuesday 23rd June Black Hair Friday 26th June Corsham Festival The Pound Arts Centre Pound Pill Corsham Wiltshire SN13 9HX corshamfestival.blogspot.com

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Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna Composer Director

Rufus Wainwright Daniel Kramer

Conductor Designer Lighting

Pierre-André Valade Antony McDonald Peter Mumford

Co-librettist Bernadette Colomine Régine Janis Kelly Philippe Jonathan Summers Marie Rebecca Bottone André William Joyner Performed by the orchestra of Opera North

Paris. Bastille Day. 1970. Régine Saint Laurent, once the world’s most revered operatic soprano, is preparing for her return to the stage after six years of silence. But in doing so, Régine is forced to confront the ghosts of her past. Can she defeat the demons that destroyed her career, and emerge triumphantly once more into the spotlight? In our first ever partnership with Manchester International Festival, we’re thrilled to be supporting their spectacular new commission Prima Donna. After the phenomenal success of last year’s Monkey: Journey to the West, Prima Donna presents yet another exciting take on the operatic form, this time conjuring up the expansive sound and explosive glamour of opera’s nineteenth century heyday. Composed by Rufus Wainwright, one of the greatest male vocalists and songwriters of his generation, this debut opera will be realised with award-winning director Daniel Kramer, British designer Antony McDonald, leading French conductor Pierre-André Valade, celebrated soprano Janis Kelly and the combined talents of Opera North. Please note that Rufus Wainwright will not be performing in Prima Donna

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival Produced by Manchester International Festival and Opera North With thanks to Alistair Spalding for his collaboration and support. Developed with the support of Sound and Music

Dates Friday 10 July 7.45PM Sunday 12 July 3PM Tuesday 14 July 7.45PM Friday 17 July 7.45PM Sunday 19 July 3PM MANCHESTER Palace Theatre, Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6FT Duration approx. 2.45 hrs inc. interval Tickets £12.50 – £47.50 no booking fees Transaction fee applies Limited Concs £12.50 (Senior Citizens, Child, Full Time Student, Jobseeker, Disabled) on tickets priced £38.50 / £32.00 / £20.00 How to book quaytickets.com or call 0844 8154961 ticketmaster.co.uk or call 0870 4019000

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Apollo Icebreaker with BJ Cole Scanner Douglas Benford Iris Garrelfs ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo XI moon landing the Science Museum in its centenary year, alongside Sound and Music, presents the premiere of a new arrangement of Brian Eno’s 1983 album Apollo. The performance – featuring the amplified ensemble Icebreaker with BJ Cole on pedal steel guitar – will be in the Museum’s IMAX cinema accompanied by original footage of the moon landings by director Al Reinert (For All Mankind). The event also includes a performance of new material based on recordings from space by laptop artists Scanner, Douglas Benford and Iris Garrelfs in the gallery featuring the Apollo X capsule. Reflect back on a time when people looked at the stars and dreamed and experienced the magic, mystery and awe of our universe in Eno’s gravity-defying music. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Dates Monday 20 & Tuesday 21 July LONDON IMAX Cinema Science Museum Exhibition Rd sciencemuseum.org.uk

“That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” Apollo is produced by Sound and Music in collaboration with the Science Museum

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Supersonic 2009

Crafting extraordinary events for adventurous audiences, combining music, art, film and cake. Sound and Music is thrilled to be working with Birmingham’s Capsule on a programme of distinctively dark events, including some special commissions for their acclaimed Supersonic Festival, now in its seventh year. Capsule has been instrumental in Birmingham’s cultural revival, transforming our second city into one of the most important ports-of-call on the international experimental music circuit. Champions of all things avant-garde, they are curators, promoters and fans of the finest music; operating at the nexus where metal, folk and noise meet, and revealing the connections between music and art. Confirmed acts for Supersonic 2009 include: the brutal riffs of CORRUPTED; nihilistic doom from Steven O’Malley’s THORR’S HAMMER; legendary splatter rock from THE ACCUSED; the rather incredible former Swan, JARBOE; the expansive drone-noise of GROWING; Brighton’s prog adventure, DIAGONAL; the wild avant futuristic jazz of ZU; the stoned pysch of EARTHLESS; the Virginian sludge rock of PONTIAK; the industrial experiments of 65 DAYS OF STATIC; the immense duo that is FLOWER/CORSANO DUO; and occult noise act SKULLFLOWER. Also joining the line up is SCORN aka Mick Harris (king of the blast beat) and the new project combining Russell McEwan of Black Sun and the electronic-vocal attack of Lea Cummings (Kylie Minoise) in the form of ATOMIZED, plus the power violence duo IRON LUNG and one of the finest folk vocalists, NANCY WALLACE. And there are still more acts to be announced!

“As British music festivals go, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous without once seeming ostentatiously eclectic.” The Wire Supersonic is produced by Capsule capsule.org.uk

Dates Friday 24 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday 26 July BIRMINGHAM Tickets theticketsellers.co.uk further info at supersonicfestival.com

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Sound and Music’s programme: more than live events

Sound and Music’s full programme consists of four areas:

Live events Digital

Knowledge and resources Learning and participation

We’ve told you all about our upcoming live events, so find out what else is on offer right here…

Digital soundandmusic.org

A new place to share, learn and create Sound and Music is committed to giving as many people as possible access to the art of sound and music. soundandmusic.org launches with the aim of bringing together a huge network of artists, publishers, promoters and music fans, alongside Sound and Music’s own work to create a new hub for music and sound in the UK and beyond.

Share it Life’s so much easier when you share things. Sound and Music has made a space that gives people interested in new music and sound art a place to call home. With the new network you can create a profile that will collect your articles, reviews, audio, video, links and things you love in one place – all for free! List it, book it... Want to know what gig to go to this Friday? Then visit the site. Want to tell people about your upcoming sound art exhibition? Well, list it on soundandmusic.org for free. soundandmusic.org wants to create the most comprehensive listings of the best things happening in the UK. Sound and Music’s thrown in a big load of opportunities too – jobs, calls, and that kind of thing. Digital Exploration Sound and Music gets pretty excited about all things digital. The site will be used as a creative space, commissioning new work, publishing podcasts and videos, and experimenting with new ideas in our Labs. There will be things related to our live events such as Yannis Kyriakides’ The Sound of Unsounds, Raga Explorer, plus online residencies, applications and games. soundandmusic.org is a brand new and growing site. We want your help and your creativity to make it a free and open environment in which to share, learn, create and explore the best in new music and sound.

Knowledge and Resources Enriching the experience Sound and Music believes that if you know more about what you are listening to, not only will you have a better time, you’ll learn more about it too. On the website there is rich information about Sound and Music events to read, watch or listen to before and after the gig. There is even space to upload your own take on the experience.

Revealing Histories Sound and Music aims to give context to the current music and arts scene by opening up and giving access to collections, archives and knowledge. We launch with access in person and online to a collection of over forty years’ worth of scores and recordings. Access to work will continue to grow as Sound and Music nurtures partnerships with collections and archives throughout the UK and internationally, documenting the histories of sound and music.

Publications There will be a programme of high-quality creative print and digital publications provoking new ideas, documenting important milestones and being art objects in themselves. Alongside this will be regular news and listings publications to keep you up to date with the UK’s new music scene.

Learning and Participation Sound and Music believes that when you get creatively involved in something, either as an audience member, a creator or a participant, you get more out of the experience and are more likely to continue in your explorations. Sound and Music aims to create contexts and environments where as many people as possible can share in the rich experiences that the arts can give.

Engagement Sound and Music’s opening season launches a broad programme of engagement to inspire greater understanding of the work and encourage deeper involvement. Expo Youth accompanies Expo Leeds and gives young people from the region the chance to have their work commissioned and developed by professional practitioners and be included in the main programme. The Sound and Music Summer School gives young people the chance to nurture their composing skills in a highly creative and stimulating environment. Cut & Splice houses opportunities to get close to artists and their work, ideas and creative processes. As well as all this there will be more strategic work going on to further programmes such as Sonic Postcards – an award winning creative schools programme encouraging teachers and young people to listen to and compose with the sounds of their local environments.

Professional Development Sound and Music is committed to finding and nurturing outstanding talent through programmes such as the Shortlist, Voices and New Music Plus. A targeted programme of professional development is central to our mission, focused on the needs of individuals and working in partnership with leading UK organisations to maximise opportunities, build skills and ensure a stronger future for music and sound.

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We would like to thank the following organisations which have recently funded projects by bmic, CMN, SAN and spnm, many of which continue in Sound and Music: Arts Council England, Awards for All, BBC Radio 3, British Council, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Incorporated Society of Musicians, John Lyon’s Charity, MCPS, Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, PRS Foundation for New Music, RVW Trust, Scottish Arts Council, The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Trust, The Britten-Pears Foundation, The Columbia Foundation, The Delius Trust, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Foyle Foundation, The Golsoncott Foundation, The Hinrichsen Foundation, The Holst Foundation, The Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The Leverhulme Trust, The Marina Kleinwort Trust, The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, The Rayne Foundation, The Seary Charitable Trust, Youth Music.

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