Soundwaves Festival 2008
Brighton & Hove 13 - 29 June
During our second festival we build on last year's success and, following the many positive responses from our audiences, continue to present some of the most innovative and exciting music that is being created today. The focus of Soundwaves Festival 2008 is 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 runs 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 mix improvisation, electronics, visuals and live performance.
The Art of Sound is Apartment House's extraordinary event offering sonic pieces created by five radical visual artists alongside the monumentally radical 1968 Acustica by Mauricio Kagel . Merging music, sound and visual performance, Ensemble Scratch the Surface delves 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 in their experimental concert.
Virtuosic pianist Rolf Hind performs a programme ranging from the sublimely experimental to the ravishingly modernist, with music from Italy and the UK; whilst Sarah Nicolls brings her intense and explosive performance of collaboratively-created pieces for piano and live electronics to Brighton.
Four other extraordinary soloists delight 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 perform great classics of the string quartet repertoire by Béla Bartók and Arvo Pärt alongside new works that will surely become classics in the near future.
Once again we make Brighton station and a beach hut in Hove resonate with sound, bring music to the streets of Brighton and host many events involving musicians from around our City.
I hope you will join us in Brighton & Hove from Friday 13 to Sunday 29 June for Soundwaves Festival 2008 - a feast of more than 20 events during which you will experience sound art that pushes boundaries, breaks down barriers, and takes us 'outside the box'.
Claudia Molitor
Festival Director, Soundwaves Festival 2008
