Soundwaves Festival 2008

Soundwaves is dedicated to new and experimental music, and takes place across Brighton and Hove from Saturday 21st to Sunday 29th June. Events are held at various locations and there are several free events taking place around the town too.

Soundwaves will offer festival goers installations to explore, video art, performance art, music theatre, concerts, ensemble performances, outdoor events, a symposium and much more is promised. In 2008 the festival will present music that the organisers say will be, "exhilarating, different, strange, wonderful, rare, in short Music Outside The Box."

A strong visual thread runs through the festival. Audio visual installations include one cellist and artist Anton Lukoszevieze and another by ensemble MooV. Sonic pieces created by five ground-breaking visual artists alongside 1968 Acoustica by Mauricio Kagel. Ensemble Scratch the Surface delve into a world of [moving] sound and image. Three performers from EXAUDI together with performance poet Heather Taylor explore where music starts and poetry ends. Plus virtuosic pianist Rolf Hind, Sarah Nicollsperforms collaboratively-created pieces for piano and live electronics. Four other soloists Damien Harron (percussion), Chris Redgate (oboe), David Alberman (violin), and Loré Lixenberg (mezzo soprano). Closing the festival the Duke Quartet perform a string quartet repertoire by Béla Bartók and Arvo Pärt alongside new works.

More information will be here when available.

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