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WELCOME TO SOUNDWAVES FESTIVAL
Soundwaves Festival will take place in 2010: Friday 16 July - Sunday 18 July
Why is there no festival in 2009?
Despite the considerable success of the first two Soundwaves Festivals, reaching estimated audiences, live and broadcast, of more than 68,000 and presenting 75 new works as well as rarely heard contemporary repertoire, raising enough funds to put on a festival of the quality we aim for has proved impossible, not helped by the current extraordinary economic circumstances: some past financial supporters have stopped making grants for the time being.
What will happen in 2010?
We are taking this opportunity to review the format of Soundwaves Festival and will re-launch it in 2010 as a concentrated long-weekend event with a substantial number of free, day-time and open air events. These will complement three major focal performances which will include promenade-like concerts, live art, sound art, electronica, installations and avant-garde DJing.
There will still be a chance to enjoy events before 2010: leading up to next year's festival there will be club-night events starting this autumn. More details will be made available nearer the time. Provisional indications of support - financial and otherwise are encouraging.
How can I help ensure the future of Soundwaves Festival?
Your support of Soundwaves Festival is vital for its future. You can join the festival as a:Festival Ambassador: free, but we ask you to undertake to promote Soundwaves Festival to your friends and other contacts and / or offer to help as a volunteer during the festival. Apply now to be an Ambassador.
Friend of Soundwaves Festival: minimum annual donation £20
Patron: minimum annual donation £50.
Download an application form (requires Adobe PDF reader). http://soundwaves-festival.org.uk/downloads/Friends_Applicat
ion_Form.pdf
You can also make a donation, securely, online via the Big Give.
We hope to see you at Soundwaves Festival 2010.
Claudia Molitor (Festival Director)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOUNDWAVES FESTIVAL 2008
During our second festival we built on our success and presented some of the most innovative and exciting music. The focus of Soundwaves Festival 2008 was to highlight the diversity of sound art practices that populate our contemporary society; to push at boundaries, break down categories and provide our audience with intriguing and exhilarating experiences; in short to present music outside the box.
A strong visual thread ran through the festival with three audio visual installations including one by the ever surprising cellist and artist Anton Lukoszevieze and another by ensemble MooV who delicately mixed improvisation, electronics, visuals and live performance.
The Art of Sound was Apartment House's extraordinary event, offering sonic pieces created by five visual artists alongside the monumentally radical 1968 Acustica by Mauricio Kagel. Merging music, sound and visual performance, Ensemble Scratch the Surface delved into a world of (moving) sound and image.
Three performers from EXAUDI together with performance poet Heather Taylor explored where music starts and poetry ends in their experimental concert.
Virtuosic pianist Rolf Hind performed a programme ranging from the sublimely experimental to the ravishingly modernist, with music from Italy and the UK; whilst Sarah Nicolls brought her intense and explosive performance of collaboratively-created pieces for piano and live electronics.
Four other extraordinary soloists delighted with their innovative approaches to their instruments: Damien Harron (percussion), Chris Redgate (oboe), David Albermann (violin), Loré Lixenberg (mezzo soprano).
To round off the festival The Duke Quartet performed great classics of the string quartet repertoire by Béla Bartók and Arvo Pärt alongside new works.
Once again we made Brighton station and a beach hut in Hove resonate with sound, bringing music to the streets of Brighton and hosting many events involving musicians from around our city.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOUNDWAVES FESTIVAL 2007
Soundwaves Festival had a very successful first outing with fantastic concerts by some of today's most exciting performers, composers and improvisers. Read on to get a taste of what happened in 2007.
The festival kicked off with Alexander's Annexe who, with their innovative mix of instrumental performance, electronics and sound artistry, throw off the shackles of genre. The exciting vocal ensemble EXAUDI presented an explosive evening of music for three sopranos and cello. Fat Battery visted from Norway to delight with their experimental improvisations, and Peter Sheppard Skærved and Aaron Shorr performed music for violin and piano by Turkish and British composers. The Kürbis Ensemble celebrated Howard Skempton's 60th birthday, playing his music alongside works by Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew, and the Fidelio Trio gave the UK premiere of South African Kevin Volans' Piano Trio alongside works by Ravel, Joe Cutler and Rolf Hind.
There were more than a dozen world or UK premieres, including the world premiere of Martha Gunn by Michael Finnissy which was performed on the seafront in beach huts.
The popular Sussex group Talkestra presented a programme of music influenced by rock and other contemporary genres. Other local involvement includeed composers' collective New Music Brighton who teamed up with Brake Drum Assembly percussion quartet; the University of Sussex 21st Century Music Ensemble; the Ben Oliver Quartet; students from Boundstone Community College in Lancing in a concert featuring the international ensemble, Lontano, and the improvisation group IN SAND and other members of the Safehouse collective. Amateur musicians took part in an open mic night and an Allcomers Day.
Soundwaves Festival is grateful to the following for financial support:
Soundwaves Festival is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England No. 5853009. Registered Charity No. 1116527 Trustees: Patrick Harrex (Chairman), Philip Adams, Anthony Purkiss, Shoël Stadlen, Jonathan M Woodham. Registered office: 21 Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6LA
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