Sonic artist Matthew Sansom talks about the ideas behind his permanent sound installation based near Slathwaite called Colne Valley Listeners. This is accompanied by his recordings of the evocative sounds of the Colne Valley.
In today’s programme, we re-visit one of the pieces featured in an earlier HCMF Short. James Webb’s “Prayer” sound installation opened at Huddersfield Art Gallery on 21st November. This programme goes into the Gallery to capture the ambience of the building, the sounds of the prayers and experiences of the audience encountering Prayer that afternoon.
Quatuor Bozzini, the new music string quartet from Montreal, Canada, took a break during rehearsal at Hudddersfield’s St Paul’s Hall last Tuesday, to talk about their performance of 11 UK premiers of American composer James Tenney’s work at this year’s Festival. They explain how “micro-tonality” and The Beatles combine in their HCMF 2008 programme.
Today’s HCMF Short features Juice, a vocal trio performing a series of concerts and workshops in unusual settings – day centres, community centres and similar. The performers and audience talk about this series of concerts and how it works with audiences who rarely get the chance to see live music performed.
James Webb’s “Prayer”. James speaks about creating new work from recordings of a wide variety of different faith groups at prayer in Huddersfield and the local area.
Another premiere of new work by a British composer. Christopher Fox speaks about his most ambitious work to date and how it was inspired by 14th Century French poetry.
Larry Goves, one of the most promising young British composers, speaks about his work and his group - The House of Bedlam - who will be performing at this year’s Festival.
This year's festival re-creates a seminal 1958 New York performance of John Cage's work. Pianist Philip Thomas talks about Cage's music and why the concert in Huddersfield this year is so remarkable.
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