Sound.Vision.Place Concerts
Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:45:00 BST
Sound.Vision.Place, ‘a festival for your senses’, is a new, annual series of events organised by the School of Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield, aimed at showing the diversity of the work that is done by the many subjects areas within the School. As the festival tagline says, there is so much to hear, see, touch and feel - whether it be a public lecture, a concert, a workshop, or a full day of inspiring activities. The series has something for everyone, including Music.
The first Sound.Vision.Place Concert will be a concert of Ancient Celtic Music featuring John Kenny – a major worldwide exponent of the 2,000 year-old Carnyx (as seen recently on BBC2’s ‘Celtic Connections’) on Thursday 19 November, 2015, 7.30pm in St Paul’s Hall. Leading Scottish music archaeology performer John Kenny, plays music which illustrates the early development of wind instruments. He will perform on a reconstructed model of the 2,000 year-old Tinitignac Carnyx as well as two others from Deskford, along with a number of other ancient horns and a reconstruction of the Loughnashade Horn, a Bronze Age instrument from Ireland.
Highland Spellweaving are also playing a concert on Monday 25 January, 2016, 7.30pm in St Paul’s Hall. This will be a promotional event, part of a tour launching a CD of this material on Delphian Records. It will also include master classes on the instruments involved, giving students the chance to play them, and learn some of the relevant techniques. This programme revives nine musical treasures from an obscure Highland manuscript. The Gaelic patronage of elite hereditary pipers collapsed after the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745. Worried that the classical music of the Gaels would fade away, the new English-speaking elite offered prize money for scientific notations. By 1797, Colin Campbell had transcribed 167 epic compositions; the judges in Edinburgh, however, found his notation unintelligible. Campbell had adapted the traditional Hebridean syllables of oral instruction — e.g. hihorodo hiharara— an obvious approach for someone inside the tradition, but to outsiders the result was mumbo jumbo.
Come to hear imaginary sound landscapes created by Greenhead College students as part of a geolocative audio project developed in collaboration with Jung-in Jung from the University of Huddersfield Music Department. This event will take place on 25 February, 2016 at 7.30pm in Bates Mill Photography Studio.
To conclude the Musical events occurring within this year’s Sound.Vision.Place festival, Happening in Huddersfield Historical Performance Festival will be taking place over a four day period. The events will be held at various times and in various venues that are yet to be announced. The 2016 Festival of Historically Informed Performances will include a focus on music from Venice, including Gabrielli and Monteverdi for voices, cornett and sackbut with the University Chamber Choir, Gawain Glenton and Adrian France: a lunchtime concert of early Italian trio sonatas by Four's Company: and a programme of classical Harmoniemusik given by Boxwood and Brass.
To find out more about the series and to book tickets, keep in touch as it develops by going to www.hud.ac.uk/sound-vision-place and follow us on Twitter @mhmhudds #soundvisionplace
