Electric Spring Festival 2019

The annual Electric Spring festival of electronic music takes place from 20–24 February 2019. The festival features innovative performers and composers at the cutting edge of electronic music and music technology, whose work is featured through five days of performances, installations, workshops, and symposia. At the heart of the festival is the 50-channel, 60-loudspeaker Huddersfield Immersive Sound System (theHISS), one of the premier loudspeaker orchestras in the UK. This year we also launch a special link with the Yorkshire Sound Women Network and a new professional development programme for female composers of electronic music hosted in partnership with the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//).

All concerts, lectures, symposia, and the Modular Meets gathering are free and open to the public. Please note that the Yorkshire Sound Women Network workshops require advance booking.

Concerts at 19:30 in Phipps Hall, Richard Steinitz Building, University of Huddersfield

Line-Up
20/02 (Wed): Benjamin Thigpen (USA/BE), with Jorge Boehringer (USA)
21/02 (Thur): Lauren Sarah Hayes (UK/USA), with Brice Catherin (FR) and Philip Thomas (UK)
22/02 (Fri): Electric Indigo (AUT), with Stella Baraklianou (GRC/UK)
23/02 (Sat): exclusiveOr (USA), with James Bradbury (AUS)

Installations
Andie Brown (Wed-Thurs)
Stewart Worthy (Fri-Sat)

Workshops
• Yorkshire Sound Women Network Workshops with Electric Indigo (Friday 10–12) and Lauren Sarah Hayes (Friday 2–4)
• Lauren Sarah Hayes guest lecture, Creative Coding Lab (Friday 4:30)
• Creative Coding Lab Symposium (Saturday 10-5)
• Modular Meets (Sunday 12-5)

Huddersfield Professional Development Programme for Female Composers of Electronic Music
• Presented by hcmf// in partnership with CeReNeM and Electric Spring HISS Diffusion Workshop and Open Rehearsals (Thursday 10-5)
• Launch Reception at Temporary Contemporary Gallery (Thursday 5-7)

For more information visit http://www.electricspring.co.uk/