Music Current 2025: Tim Cape - Music Theatre Workshop
Contemporary Music Centre
Tim Cape (photo Rory McSwiggan)
As part of Music Current Festival 2025.
Tim Cape will lead a two-hour workshop on inter-disciplinary performance, guiding participants through methods to generate performance material using instruments, voice, text, objects and movement. This workshop will be hands on and practical, and is suitable to students and professionals in the performing arts as well as anyone with an interest in live performance and an adventurous spirit. Tim will give a short presentation on his own work before participants dive in and start making work collaboratively with each other.
Timothy Cape is an Irish composer who combines notated music, improvisation, physicality and text to create visceral music-theatre works which engage with contemporary political issues in unusual and playful ways. In 2025 he will be composer in residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, will premiere his project Letters from the Squaring, as well as collaborations with theatre maker Alan Fielden (Container, New Diorama Theatre, London April 2025) and his own group Bastard Assignments (PIGSPIGSPIGS, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall (UK), Borealis (NO) and Spor (DK) - March 2025). In 2024 he was commissioned by Sound Initiative to make the music theatre piece Soother using funds from Diaphonique, and wrote a solo piece for the Soprano Mimi Doulton, premiered at Cafe Oto, London.
In 2023 he was awarded a music bursary from Arts Council Ireland, and In 2022 he was commissioned to make Still Drowsy for the Venice Music Biennale. 2021 Commissions included hcmf// (UK), Kirkos Ensemble (IE) and percussionist Angela Hui Wai Nok (five performances internationally), Previous commissions include Spitalfields Festival and Britten Pears (UK). Radio broadcasts include Late Junction, New Music Show and The Verb (BBC radio 3, UK), Deutschlandfunk Cultur and SWR2 (DE). His work has been performed internationally including Spor festival (DK), Aldeburgh festival (UK), hcmf// UK, Perifirein (NO), Music Current (IE), Constellations (US), Cattle Depot (HK). He is a member of Bastard Assignments, a group of four composer-performers called “one of the most exciting forces in contemporary music” (Financial Times 2020) and “at the forefront of London’s DIY new music scene” (Neue Zeitung fur Musik 2019).
He is currently studying for a PhD in composition at Southampton University supervised by Matthew Shlomowitz and James Saunders, funded by an SWWDTP bursary. He studied a Masters in Art in the Public Sphere at RCA, London and a BMus at Trinity Laban conservatoire. He also took lessons with Jennifer Walshe, funded by the Help Musicians Talent Development Bursary 2016.
Music Current workshops are supported by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland. Composer participants resident on the island of Ireland, travelling from outside Dublin, may apply to CMC for a bursary to cover the cost of travel, subsistence and workshop entry fee by contacting festival staff when attending workshop events, or by emailing info@musiccurrent.ie
Tickets
€5 (includes refreshments). Book tickets.
Why not stay on and meet ensemble soundinitiative? Join us at the CMC Library for introductions and a friendly chat from 5-6pm. Refreshments will be provided. Registration for the Meet soundinitiative mixer is essential, see booking page here.