Events
4 - 16 November 2013
Sound and Music is delighted that the UK will be represented by Robert Rusconi at the ISCM World Music Days in Vienna, Bratislava and Košice this November
On 30 April we announced our programmes for the coming year.
Find out about our new projects and how you can get involved.
19 November 1200 - 1800
On 19th November we are hosting an Open Day at the British Music Collection. We invite all hcmf// composers, performers, audience and any other interested parties to come and browse the collection and join us for a coffee and short guided tour
14 - 18 November 2012
Sound and Music is excited to announce an autumn tour featuring Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones
31 August to 9 September 2012
Sound and Music collaborates with Heart n Soul in a global participatory digital music project
6 - 22 July 2012
After the success of Floral Derrangement, we're proud to co-commission a new piece by Scanner for this year's Durham Brass Festival: Witness.
2012 - 2015
Sound and Music is pleased to announce a three year strategic partnership with New York’s MATA festival to support the work of emerging British composers through dedicated commissioning and performance support at the festival.
17 May 2012
Sound and Music and noise = noise present a special concert to celebrate the CD launch of Nerve Cell_0, a collaboration between Zbigniew Karkowski and Anton Lukoszevieze on the Subrosa label.
19th April 2012
This April, the legendary English singer-songwriter Mark Fry, whose 1972 album, Dreaming With Alice is now a psych-folk cult classic, will make a rare, live appearance at The Village Underground, London.
6 - 15 April 2012
Sound and Music is supporting the international Counterflows festival, linking Cafe Oto in London with the experimental music scenes in Berlin and Glasgow.
28 - 31 March 2012
Sound and Music presents a UK tour of the first duo performances by two legendary female composers and performers.
Friday 24 - Sunday 26 February 2012
Sound and Music and The Wire present the UK's only literary festival exploring music criticism and contemporary audio culture, taking place on the seaside town of Whitstable, 24 - 26 February 2012.
Sunday 29 January 2012
Sound and Music presents a half-day of discussions exploring career models in the world of modern composition. ***This event is now sold out but there may be returns on the door.***
21-25 November 2011
A historic double-bill tour featuring two pioneers of improvisational music: Cult Australian trio The Necks. Harold Budd, joined by improvising musician/composer Werner Dafeldecker.
World premiere performance took place on 19 November 2011
Sound and Music co-produced the world premiere performance of composer Richard Barrett's enormous two-hour cycle, CONSTRUCTION at HCMF in November 2011, and produced a film documenting the performance - watch here.
19 - 22 November 2011
Sound and Music is a partner in the world premieres of major works by Richard Barrett and Zbigniew Karkowski at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
17 November 2011
A programme of music that is minimal and stripped back on the surface but glowing with intensity, curated by John Lely, Tim Parkinson and Markus Trunk and performed by Apartment House.
12 - 13 November (24-hour marathon, 2pm - 2pm)
Nick Franglen’s latest sound installation concentrates the entire radio broadcast output available in north Norfolk into a remote, WWII concrete gunnery dome. If you can't make the event, you can listen to or watch the live stream online.
Thursday 3 November to Sunday 6 November, 2011
If you missed the live festival last week at the ICA, you can still listen again to the second BBC Radio 3 broadcast until 19 November. Find out more...
26 October 2011
A screening at no.w.here of works by Ben Gwilliam and Rob Gawthrop
21 October 2011
Apartment House with special guest Simon Bookish perform a special concert of music to coincide with De La Warr Pavilion's new exhibition Warhol is Here
Thursday 8 September 2011
A concert featuring work by Phill Niblock, Yannis Kyriakides and Johannes Kreidler where music is sampled, transcribed, saturated, over-amplified and held under the microscope.
Monday 1st - Saturday 6th August, 2011
SAM is at the Full of Noises festival in Barrow-in-Furness this August supporting a series of sound installations and schools projects.
14 – 17 July 2011
A site-specific public sound installation created by sound artist Scanner, which will be presented on the award-winning ARUP-designed Kingsgate footbridge in Durham, 14 - 17 July
