1982 England: Birmingham.
1983 England: Birmingham.
1984 England: Birmingham and Halifax.
1985 England: Birmingham.
1986 England: Birmingham.
1987 England: Birmingham and Tonbridge.
1988 England: Birmingham and Liverpool.
1989 England: Birmingham, Huddersfield and Hull. Scotland: Glasgow.
1990 England: London. Scotland: Glasgow and Edinburgh
1991 England: Birmingham and Huddersfield.
Scotland: Glasgow.
The Netherlands: The Hague.
Germany: Karlsruhe.
1992 England: Birmingham, Lancaster, London and Durham.
Scotland: Aberdeen and Stirling.
1993 England: Birmingham and London.
1994 England: Birmingham, London, Nottingham, Manchester, Norwich and Huddersfield.
Scotland: Edinburgh.
The Netherlands: Amsterdam
1995 England: Birmingham, London and Bath.
Wales: Bangor. Austria: Salzburg.
1996 England: Birmingham. Scotland: Edinburgh. Sweden: Stockholm
1997 England: Birmingham.
1998 England: Birmingham.
1999 England: Birmingham, Basingstoke, London and Bath.
2000 England: Birmingham.
Germany: Berlin.
2001 England: Birmingham and Aldeburgh.
Denmark: Aarhus.
2002 England: Birmingham, Market Drayton, Manchester, London and Stoke-on-Trent.
2003 England: Birmingham, Preston, Scarborough
2004 England: Birmingham, West Bromwich, Northampton, Dartington.
2005 England: Birmingham.
Switzerland: Basel.
France: Aix en Provence.
2006 England: Birmingham.
2007 England: Birmingham.
Past concerts in 2008
Sunday 5th October 2008
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Birmingham , England
A concert to celebrate the 60th anniversary of musique concrète.
3.00 pm
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Pierre Schaeffer
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Cinq études de bruit (1948)
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Denis Smalley
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Pentes (1974)
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Trevor Wishart
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Angel (2006)
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Jonty Harrison
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... et ainsi de suite... (1992)
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Thursday 23rd - Friday 24th October 2008
Millennium Point , Birmingham , England
Thursday 23rd October
7.15 pm
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David Hindmarch
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Altered Materials
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Jonty Harrison
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Undertow
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Zlatko Baracskai
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Culpable Passage
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Scott Wilson
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Photo Shopped Music
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Andrew Bourbon
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TBA
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Friday 24th October
3 pm
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Eric Bumstead
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|kroʊn|
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Anup Paul
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TBA
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Benjamin Garfield
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"I'd rather not talk about it"
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Pei-Yu Shi
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Fall, aus der Zeit...
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Eric Bumstead
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|kroʊn|
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Anup Paul
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TBA
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Simon Kinch
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Satellites
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Annie Mahtani
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Past Links
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Lisa Whistlecroft
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"Walking with Ghosts"
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Past concerts in 2009
Friday 29th - Sunday 31st May 2009
Travels in Time and Space
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham , England
Five concerts of electroacoustic music exploring time and space, memory and location, presented on the latest version of BEAST's spectacular multi-channel sound diffusion system.
Friday 29th May 2009
7.30 pm: Concert 1
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James Carpenter
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new work
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Zlatko Baracskai
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Try Again: Before
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David Hindmarch
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Nature Room
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Rosalyn Coull
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new work
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Eric Bumstead
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BlckWnd
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Julien Guillamat
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Petites Bêt(is)es et autres minuscules...
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9.30 pm: Concert 2
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Sergio Luque
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"Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll" was never meant to be like this
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Pei-Yu Shi
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Fall, aus der Zeit...
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Les Hutchins
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Blake's 9
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Anup Paul
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Exaflood
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Garfield Benjamin
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In the Eye
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Jan Tr¨tzschler
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perforated
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Saturday 30th May 2009
6.00 pm: Concert 3 - solo concert presented by Andrew Lewis
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Andrew Lewis
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Ascent
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Andrew Lewis
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Dark Glass (world premiere)
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Andrew Lewis
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Danses acousmatiques
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8.00 pm: Concert 4
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Jonty Harrison
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Phantom Power
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Sophocles Arvanitis
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Coexistencies
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Chris Tarren
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Windows onto a Metallic Garden (COMPASS Prizewinner)
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Scott Wilson
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Gotlandic Miscellanea
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Alastair Bannerman
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Variations
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Hans Tutschku
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Zwei Räume
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Sunday 31st May 2009
2.00 pm: Concert 5
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Shelly Knotts
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Tape Study #1
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Erdem Helvacioglu
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Wandering around the City
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Igor Lintz-Maues
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Schenk mir dein Ohr
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Simon Smith
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Still
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Daniel Meredith
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new work
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Lisa Whistlecroft
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new work
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Simon Kinch
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Satellites
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Serena Alexander
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InnerSense
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Sunday 4th October 2009
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
3.00 - 4.00 pm
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Adrian Moore
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Study in Ink
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Andrew Lewis
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Cable Bay
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David Berezan
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Hannibal
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Pippa Murphy
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Caspian Retreat
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Hans Tutschku
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La joie ivre
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Past concerts in 2010
Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th March 2010
Sonic Fingerprints: 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes, plus Kontakte
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF
Saturday 6 March 18:00-22:00
A. 18:00-19:00
Jean-François Denis - Point-virgule
John Young - Pythagoras’s Curtain
Robert Normandeau - Bédé
Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay - La cloche fêlée
Stéphane Roy - Résonances d’arabesques
Darren Copeland - Rendered Visible
Gilles Gobeil - Associations libres
Andrew Lewis - Penmon Point
B. 19:30-20:30
Mathew Adkins - Mapping
Hildegard Westerkamp - Breathing Room
David Berezan - Baoding
Elainie Lillios - Au deuxième étage
Hans Tutschku - … erinnerung…
Javier Alvarez - Mambo à la Braque
Denis Smalley - Valley Flow
C. 21:00-22:00
Jonty Harrison - Unsound Objects
Christian Calon - Temps incertains
Pete Stollery - Vox Magna
Yves Daoust - Mi bémol
Natasha Barrett - Industrial Revelations
Francis Dhomont- Studio de nuit
Adrian Moore - Junky
Sunday 7 March 14:00-16:00
– with Luciane Cardassi (piano) and Eric Bumstead (percussion)
David Hindmarch - Jetsam Sounding
Roz Coull - Stress vs. Piece
Mark Winn-Smith - Panaberration (COMPASS Prize-winner 2009)
Julien Guillamat - [New work]
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Tickets
Saturday Admission (ticket for all 3 concerts): £14 / £8 / £5 (£4 students)
Sunday Admission: £7 / £5 / £3 (£3 students)
CBSO Centre ticket hotline: 0121 767 4050 Box Office: Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EA
SQUARES - CIRCLES - LABYRINTHS
Thursday 18 and Friday 19 March 2010 ∙ 7 pm
See here for more information.
BEASTory, 29th July - 1st August, 2010
Inventionen Festival, Berlin, Germany
Concert 1: 19:00, Thursday 29 July
Programme details
Concert 2: 21:00, Thursday 29 July
Programme details
Concert 3: 19:00, Friday 30 July
Programme details
Concert 4: 21:00, Friday 30 July
Programme details
Concert 5: 19:00, Saturday 31 July
Programme details
Concert 6: 21:00, Saturday 31 July
Programme details
Concert 7: 14:00, Sunday 1 August
Programme details
Booking
Booking details from the Inventionen Web site.
States of Play, 15th - 17th October, Birmingham
BEAST presents another weekend of immersion in sound, using its spectacular multi-channel diffusion system. The weekend starts on Friday lunchtime in the Barber Concert Hall on the University of Birmingham campus, with a concert of classic works from the French tradition. On Saturday and Sunday the fun continues at the CBSO Centre, with concerts of recent music from Birmingham and around the world.
Day 1: Friday 15th October, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
13.10 - 14.00
A concert of classic works from the French tradition.
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François Bayle
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Trois rêves d'oiseau
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Bernard Parmegiani
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La roue ferris
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Christian Calon
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Les corps éblouis
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Day 2: Saturday 16th October, CBSO Centre, Birmingham
18.00 - 19.00
Recent music from Birmingham and around the world.
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Jonty Harrison
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BEASTory
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Garfield Benjamin
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Re:# akou a sema
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Annie Mahtani
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Cricrió
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David Hindmarch
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The Cup of Plenty
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Constantinos Kontos
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The Passage
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19.30 - 20.30
Recent music from Birmingham and around the world.
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Scott Wilson
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Böse
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Maurits Fennis
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Nuages
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Julien Guillamat
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La musique qu'on nous joue
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Anup Kumar Paul
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Eigenfrequency
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John Young
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Smoke and Mirrors
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21.00 - 22.00
Recent music from Birmingham and around the world.
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Chris Tarren
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Bric(k)olage
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Pei-Yu Shi
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Movements
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James Carpenter
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Tangle
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Shelly Knotts
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For Piano
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Trevor Wishart
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Encounters in the Republic of Heaven: Act 1
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Day 3: Sunday 17th October, CBSO Centre, Birmingham
14.00 - 16.00
Recent music from Birmingham and around the world.
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Jorge Garcia Moncada
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Pieza Electroacústica No. 2
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Helena Gough
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Tephra
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Norah Lorway
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suddenly, there is
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Francis Dhomont
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Le travail du rêve
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Savannah Agger
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Extended Terminations
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Eric Bumstead
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River
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Hans Tutschku
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Firmament – schlaflos
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Electroacoustic Fair, Saturday 13th November
MacRobert Building, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
4.00 pm
Past concerts in 2011
Xenia Pestova (piano) with BEAST, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham 21st October 2011
Information from the Barber Institute.
Waves, CBSO Centre, Birmingham, 19th - 20th November 2011
Saturday 19th November 2011
BEAST (Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre)
Suzanne Binet-Audet ondes Martenot
Gilles Gobeil sound diffusion
BEAST presents Waves
Sound travels in waves - perhaps even across the Atlantic… Experience total sonic immersion in BEAST’s multi-loudspeaker diffusion system.
Overture, 6pm: Recent works from Birmingham and around the world.
Trilogie d’ondes, 7.30pm: A recent acousmatic piece and three classic works for ondes Martenot and electroacoustics by Gilles Gobeil.
Late Show, 9pm: An atmospheric end to the evening, featuring more recent music from Birmingham and beyond.
£14 (£8 SYP, Disabled, Groups, Benefits, 60+, PtL; £4 under-16s & students). In advance for collection on the door: 0121 616 2616 /
info@bcmg.org.uk Book online
18:00
Pei-Yu Shi Milchstraße
Julien Guillamat Sonnation II
Constantinos Kontos Reverie
Xiu Min Chong Expectation (COMPASS Prize)
Chris Tarren Rip
19:30
Gilles Gobeil Bol-Hydre
Voix blanche
Là où vont les nuages…
La perle et l'oubli
21:00
Yota Morimoto beastest
Visa Kuoppala Outspread
Rosalyn Coull Stress Vs Piece 3
Norah Lorway Alone together (part 2)
Tim Moyers Apricot
Savanah Agger Untitled Requiem
More details from the CBSO Centre.
Sunday 20th November 2011
BEAST (Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre)
Alejandro Escuer flutes
Rodrigo Sigal electronics and sound diffusion
Jose Luis Garcia Nava visuals
Lumínico: A Mexican interdisciplinary project combining images, live performance and new audio technologies.
£7 (£5 SYP, Disabled, Groups, Benefits, 60+, PtL; £3 under-16s & students). In advance for collection on the door: 0121 616 2616 /
info@bcmg.org.ukbook online
14:00
Neal Farwell Three Friends
Jorge García ukhu pacha
Rodrigo Sigal Lumínico - Mexican interdisciplinary project combining images, live performance and new audio technologies
More details from the CBSO Centre.