Sounds-Now

This is a great project! Huge thanks to @RiotEns and all the amazing young composers taking part! Come along and hear their work @hcmfuk in November. Produced in partnership with @NovemberMusicNL part of @Sounds_Now_

Sounds Now explained: how are we promoting inclusion and diversity in the European contemporary music landscape? Roberto Beseler Maxwell interviewed project manager Anne Appathurai for NOIES, an independent music magazine amplifying the voices of underrepresented artists.

Important discussions for the future of music in Europe, right now

@hcmfuk @culture_ireland @CMCIreland @EvS_Musik @musicinkirklees @prohelvetia @LCI_Lithuania @oslosinfonietta @ace_thenorth Bravo to the festival team, and Graham Mckenzie in particular for a marvellous edition. Very proud to have hmcf// in the Sounds Now network!

So ends the 2023 edition of hcmf//! It's been a wonderful, emotional and rejuvenating 10 days, bringing the world to Huddersfield and exploring new worlds of music, art and culture within it.

Tonight! I am very honoured to be composer in residence @hcmf! We begin with the amazing @a_borregaard in PERSONHOOD! @oslosinfonietta @una_music @ragnarao

Ahead of the World Premiere of ADVERT, a new work from Laura Bowler (@LJBcomposer) with Decoder Ensemble and Julia Rehme, @moderncomp profiles the all-in, no holds barred approach of the UK composer, performer and theatremaker. Read the feature online: hcmf.co.uk/all-in-laura-b…

Tickets for hcmf// 2023 are now on sale. Packing a 10-day programme with 25 World Premieres and 70 UK Premieres from leading international artists, our 46th edition will rank among the very best. Book your place at the forefront of sound: hcmf.co.uk/2023-programme/

More information and to apply on the Sounds Now website: sounds-now.eu

Would you like to curate a play environment for very young audiences together with Musica? This fall, Musica's “Labo Curatorship” offers curation skills-development and application in Babelut Parcours, a musical journey of discovery for children aged 0-5. Apply by Sept 8!

@YuliaLashchuk @SPORfestival @festival2021 @NovemberMusicNL @ultimaoslo @OnassisStegi @hcmfuk @TimeofMus @OliaDiatel Free event. Sign up by September 7 on the Sounds Now website sounds-now.eu

Meet Olga Diatel, another speaker we're thrilled to have at the Sounds Now symposium. Looking forward to the insight she will bring to the symposium, as we examine curating voices of otherness under oppression Sept 22-23 in Warsaw.

More info and registration on the Sounds Now website sounds-now.eu

Looking forward to hearing the inspirational Elham Puriya Mehr, an independent artist, curator, and lecturer, at the Sounds Now symposium on "Curating Voices of Otherness", coming up next month during Warsaw Autumn #CreativeEurope #SoundsNow #curating

Programme and registration on the Sounds Now website sounds-now.eu

The 3rd Sounds Now symposium is coming up in 1 month! Join us in Warsaw, September 22-23 for our event "Curating Voices of Otherness: : Women, non-binary, and transgender persons’ creative resilience in a world of wars, crises, and political turmoil". More info on our website!

Co-organised by SPOR festival and Sounds Now researchers Monika Zyla and Yulia Lashchuk. Many thanks to our marvellous hosts Hashtag Ensemble!

21st Century Voices parts I & II take place at Musiikin aika in Viitasaari this week, featuring world premieres co-commissioned by @hcmfuk and @TimeofMus, to be performed by @Ldn_Sinfonietta. Learn more: musiikinaika.org/en/21st-centur… Part of @Sounds_Now_ supported by Creative Europe.

⚠️ DEADLINE REMINDER @Sounds_Now_'s Curating Diversity Course at Ultima 2023 is for music curators/programmers interested in exploring and reflecting upon their own practice within music and sound 🪩 Apply before June 23 👇 buff.ly/3Ng4e5G

More info and to apply: sounds-now.eu

Open call for the 3rd Sounds Now music curating course, with curators/researchers meLê yamamo and Irene Revell! This year taking place in Oslo, Norway this year at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. Deadline to apply June 23. More info on our website!