amplify #99 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

CMC travelled to Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival back in November. Whilst there we had the great pleasure of interviewing some of Ireland's finest exponents of new music who were performing at the festival. This episode features interviews with Kirkos, Stone Drawn Circles, Jennifer Walshe and Andreas Borregaard

Show Notes

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival takes place in partnership with the University of Huddersfield.

Stone Drawn Circles @ HCMF

Kirkos - Beginner's Guide to Slow Travel @ HCMF

Jennifer Walshe - Personhood @ HCMF

Music

Thank you to the composers, performers, BBC and Music Network for permission to use the recordings featured in this episode.

In order of appearance in the episode:

• Excerpts from Kirkos - Beginner's Guide to Slow Travel (2023) performed and composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams, Robert Coleman, Yseult Cooper Stockdale, Jane Hackett, Hannah Miller and Joan Somers Donnelly. Recorded live on 21 November at HCMF 2023 by Jonathan Grimes.
• Excerpt from Karen Power - can you hear me now???? (2019) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC.
• Excerpt form Úna Monaghan - In Formation (2023) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC.
• Excerpt from Jennifer Walshe - Oscailt (2023) performed by Jennifer Walshe (vocalist), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Nick Roth (saxophone) and Panos Ghikas (viola/electronics). Recorded live at Riverbank Arts Centre on 20 September 2023 by The Rise Studio.

Interviews recorded on location at HCMF 2023 by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes.
Editing: Keith Fennell and Jonathan Grimes.