Bristol New Music 2018 at Colston hall in Bristol from 20-22 April 2018
Bristol New Music 2018 at Colston hall in Bristol from Friday 20th April to Sunday 22nd April 2018
Bristol New Music 2018 brings together an exciting array of eclectic artists presented in more venues across the city than ever before to create a weekend of new music filled to the brim with inspiring performances, unique collaborations and fearless aural exploration.
Highlights include…
Experimental viola player Ulrich Mertin wielding his bow in the University of Bristol Auditorium to combine classical, house, folk, experimental and electronic music in a performance that will redefine how we think of his instrument. Later in the weekend Bristol Ensemble will fill the Auditorium with the sounds of young Bristol University graduate compositions while Ensemble Variances contrast violence with melodic bitterness as they perform Thierry Pécou’s seminal work Outre-Mémoire; an exploration of the slave trade through music.
Experimentation spreads into some of Bristol’s smaller venues this year’s festival as A Hawk and a Hacksaw blend Eastern European folk traditions with their own New Mexico roots for a performance injected with sheer unfettered adrenalin. Meanwhile, over at The Cube Cinema, legendary Berlin electronic music producers Moritz von Oswald and Rashad Becker, two heroes of the 1990s dub techno movement are joined by conceptual singer-songwriter Eric Chenaux for a double helping of experimental electronica.
One of history’s great saxophonists Evan Parker brings his iconic improvised style to St George’s Bristol while the theromin-conjuring Sarah Angliss performs highlights from her new release Ealing Feeder and offers a show and tell delving into the extraordinary history of her instrument and Tom Richard’s Mini Oramics machine.
Over on the far side of the harbour European artist research collective AUDINT (featuring Hyperdub founder Steve Goodman aka Kode9) present a mind-bending series of installations, talks, workshops and performances at Spike Island across the whole festival weekend that will transform the way we understand and experience sound.
Colston Hall’s new associate artists The British Paraorchestra present a live sound installation with Charles Hazlewood and Army of Generalsspread across all four levels of Colston Hall Foyer exploring the workings of an Orchestra through Steve Reich’s The Four Sections. Influential Bristol-born pianist and composer Keith Tippett will perform the Hall later in the weekend joined by legendary pianist Matthew Bourne and the ‘simply breathtaking’ (Guardian) Octet band for an evening of world-class jazz.
To bring the festival to a close will be Berklee College of Music composition and sound engineering graduate Kaitlyn Auralia Smith who will cast her intoxicating electronic sounds across the cavernous space of the former IMAX screen at Bristol Aquarium.
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