During our second festival we built on our success and presented some of the most innovative and exciting music. The focus of Soundwaves Festival 2008 was 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 ran 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 mixed improvisation, electronics, visuals and live performance.
The Art of Sound was Apartment House's extraordinary event, offering sonic pieces created by five visual artists alongside the monumentally radical 1968 Acustica by Mauricio Kagel. Merging music, sound and visual performance, Ensemble Scratch the Surface delved into a world of (moving) sound and image.
Three performers from EXAUDI together with performance poet Heather Taylor explored where music starts and poetry ends in their experimental concert.
Virtuosic pianist Rolf Hind performed a programme ranging from the sublimely experimental to the ravishingly modernist, with music from Italy and the UK; whilst Sarah Nicolls brought her intense and explosive performance of collaboratively-created pieces for piano and live electronics.
Four other extraordinary soloists delighted 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 performed great classics of the string quartet repertoire by Béla Bartók and Arvo Pärt alongside new works.
Once again we made Brighton station and a beach hut in Hove resonate with sound, bringing music to the streets of Brighton and hosting many events involving musicians from around our city.
Soundwaves Festival 2008 received financial support from:
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