Oscillations & Modulations Festival: Saturday at the Guildhall, featuring music by Anna Murray & Brian Bridges

Presented in partnership with Northern Lights Project, Oscillations & Modulations bring you a day of experimental electronics, with three shows ranging from immersive multichannel speaker arrays, live modular synths performances and more. All in the beautiful Guildhall Hall.

Three events Breakdown (1 tickets covers all three Guildhall events)

1pm – pablo sanz (Solo immersive ambisonic concert)

pablo sanz performs “entangled” on an ambisonic immersive system of eight surround speakers, configured especially for the occasion. The performance explores the nonhuman worlds of the Amazon rainforest, focusing on the fascinating complexity of the continuous sonic flow created by insects, birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish, plant species, soil, water and the weather. It is an invitation to explore listening as a creative act, a form of attention, and a means to investigate the world.

4pm – Electric Circus (New music for live performers and immersive sound)

Electric Circus presents an exciting programme of new music for live acoustic instruments and electronics, including music by composers based in the north west of Ireland. The pieces showcase the range and breadth of music being composed and performed in this part of Ireland today. Performers include Sarah Watts (bass clarinet), Theresa Kavanagh (fiddle), Moya Sweeney (harp/voice), and Brian Stafford (uilleann pipes).

Electric Circus is a new electroacoustic ensemble based in NW Ireland with a focus on works that mix acoustic instruments and spatialised electronic sound. This concert is an opportunity to showcase music composed and performed by artists based in the north west, with a few special guests from further afield!

7pm – Anna Murray & Brian Bridges (Live modular synth & more)

Anna Murray is a mixed-media composer and artist from Ireland and currently based in Tokyo. She has a particular interest in language and text-based composition, the creation of sound spaces, as well as graphic and open scores combined with live electronics.Brian Bridges is a composer, electronic musician and sound artist, originally from Dublin, but based in Derry for more than a decade, where he lectures at Ulster University and co-founded Oscillations and Modulations in 2018. Brian’s creative output spans the worlds of drone, microtonality, modular synthesis, and spatial electroacoustic music and sound.

Tickets

Tickets £7, valid for all three events. Booking via Eventbrite.