UnHeard, the RNCM’s New Music Society, presents an evening of new and experimental music by Alice Brookes, Gavin Bryars, Billy Lancaster, Eden Longson, Tim Parkinson, James Saunders, and James Tenney. The music promises to be both weird and wonderful, with an emphasis on experimentation, looseness, and play. This event will be free to attend with […]
NB: this event has been postponed. Ticket holders will be contacted. A genre-fluid jam and performance, featuring music with no name, inspired by global traditions. Bring your instruments and ears. Kabantu – “of the people….I am who I am because of who we all are” – is an award winning folk fusion collective from Manchester […]
The Eroteme series presents a special film screening of By Biro and Umbrella Spring, with a Q&A with the Director Cathey Soreny and Adam Bohman, followed by a performance by The Bohman Brothers. Adam Bohman’s life is a continual bricolage – from his artworks to his sound works, via his tape diaries and text pieces. He […]
As International Women’s Day approaches, join us to ‘Break the Bias’ at the Anthony Burgess Foundation on March 7th from 6-10pm. This free, informal, drop-in event features a series of short musical performances, from string quartet to saxophone and harp duo, showcasing of some the finest music written by female composers, alongside premieres of new […]
Note: this event has been cancelled for various reasons outside the organsers’ control. Ticket holders will be contacted. Eroteme presents the newly formed quartet of Swiss and UK luminaries: John Butcher, Christian Kobi, Lee Patterson & Christian Müller. Fresh from a London studio recording and their debut concert at OTO we will allow the group […]
Following a sold out show last time in Manchester in 2018, Grey Lantern are delighted to welcome back the incredible songwriter and guitarist Eric Chenaux. Eric’s woozy psychedelic tracks come from experimentation and improvisation and have wound their away across several critically acclaimed albums. About Eric Chenaux: Eric Chenaux is one of Canada’s most respected […]
The Curious Opera Company presents a staged interpretation of Schubert’s popular song cycle Winterreise which follows the plight of Thomas Hardy’s tragic heroine Tess of the D’Urbervilles. The performers: Ahlyssa Mundy — Tess (Part 1: Maiden No More)/Liza-Lu Kendal Bradshaw — Tess (Part 2: The Rally) Alicia Cadwgan – Tess (Part 3: The Consquence) Emily […]
Eroteme team up with Curious Ear to start the year off with national treasure Phil Minton who, having turned 80 in 2020, shows no signs of slowing down. Performing with him is regular sparring partner and fellow explorer of the human voice Audrey Chen. “Singing with Audrey is like working with all the possible noises […]
For SONO’s one-year birthday, we are bringing you a very special show full of exciting new chamber music! All four of the chosen pieces are by contemporary composers, three of whom are women, two duets and two quartets, one piece with a particularly Baltic sense. This is going to be our most experimental performance so […]
Launch party for David Curington’s “mind maps” (SQE001) out 3rd December, plus special guests. David Curington: mind maps (SQE001) + abstract photography David Curington is an ambient noise artist and abstract photographer based in Manchester, UK, who adopts similar aesthetics and processes for creating densely layered and immersive textures in both disciplines. Trained as a […]