University of Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival

University of Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival
GenreContemporary
DatesFebruary, annually.
Years active14
FoundersUniversity of Plymouth
Organised byThe Arts Institute
Websitehttps://www.plymouth.ac.uk/students-and-family/arts-institute-public-programme
Premiere at the 2008 Festival of Sacra Converzione by Eduardo Reck Miranda

The University of Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival is an annual event held in Plymouth, Devon, England at the University of Plymouth. The event is hosted by The Arts Institute and the University of Plymouth Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Research.[1]

It has a program of leading-edge orchestral, operatic, jazz, and electroacoustic performances, along with film, and music theatre. Composers and performers who have been part of the festival include BBC Singers, David J. Peterson, Michael Stimpson, Evelyn Glennie, Sally Beamish, liminal, Jem Finer, the Maggini string quartet, Dominic Murcott, Eduardo Reck Miranda, John Matthias, Plaid, Alexis Kirke and Jonty Harrison.

The festival is well known for its unusual ways of creating music. In 2015 a lecturer played a piano duet with a physarum polycephalum slime mould,[2][3] in 2018 brain waves recorded during seizures were turned into music,[4] and in 2019 sounds sampled from seagulls were performed on a clarinet.[5]

Events

Year Theme
22 - 24 February 2019 Multiverse
2 - 4 March 2018 Decoding Life[6]
24 - 26 February 2017 Voice 2.0
26 - 28 February 2016 Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination[7]
27 February - 1 March 2015 Biomusic[8]

References

  1. ^ "Plymouth's Contemporary Music Festival Focuses on Biomusic – Seen and Heard International". seenandheard-international.com. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  2. ^ GrrlScientist (9 February 2015). "Slime mould and researcher set to play piano duet". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Music making mould: Physarum Polycephalum in concert". Palatinate. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  4. ^ Freeman, Martin; Bayley, Jon (21 February 2018). "Former Levellers guitarist becomes Plymouth student to make seizures into music". PlymouthLive. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  5. ^ Channon, Max (4 February 2019). "Seagulls perform duet with clarinet to show their 'beauty'". PlymouthLive. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Music: Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018 | The Devon Daily". www.thedevondaily.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2016 | The Devon Daily". www.thedevondaily.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Science and music combine for music festival | The Devon Daily". www.thedevondaily.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2023.


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