MANTIS Spring Festival 2012 March 3 - 4 2012- full programme here

University of Manchester

MANTIS returns to the John Thaw Studio Theatre to present concerts curated and diffused by electroacoustic pioneer Jonty Harrison (director of BEAST - Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre) and Diana Salazar (Kingston University), as well as new electroacoustic works by composers based at the University of Manchester, featuring the MANTIS multiple loudspeaker sound diffusion system.

Concert 1, 18.00 Saturday 3 March 2012: Works from Kingston
Concert 2, 19.30 Saturday 3 March 2012: Jonty Harrison
Concert 3, 14.00 Sunday 4 March 2012: MANTIS composers

Concert 1, 18.00 Saturday 3 March 2012: Works from Kingston
Music for Strings Oded Ben-Tal
La Voz del Fuelle Diana Salazar
sys_m1 Louise Harris
Porous Torsion John Ferguson (Hybrid guitar with motion sensitive electronics) and Diana Salazar (multichannel live electronics)
Improvised Works KUDAC (Kingston University Digital Arts Collective)

Concert 2, 19.30 Saturday 3 March 2012: Jonty Harrison
Phantom Power (2007-08)
Undertow (2007)
Internal Combustion (2005-06)
Streams (1999)

Concert 3, 14.00 Sunday 4 March 2012: MANTIS composers
The Luc Ferrari Piece (2012) Donal Sarsfield
Peace shall be her first sounding (2012) James Percival
Swirls (2012) Ignacio Pecino
Environ-cycle (2012) Michael Lau
Etude on Space (2012) Danny Saul
Skalna (2012) Constantin Popp

Tickets:

1 concert: £7.50/5.00/4.00

2 concerts: £12.00/8.00/6.40

3 concerts: £18.00/12.00/9.60

The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
The University of Manchester
Bridgeford Street, Manchester, M13 9PL.