Worcester Music Festival Presents.. Soundings feat. Sarah Kenchington + Lee Patterson + Mammoth Beat Organ
St Swithun's Church, Worcester, Worcestershire
Soundings is an exciting new event series that will bring some of the foremost experimental musical instrument makers and performers to Worcester St Swithun's. Funded through Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, the year-long series of events will launch as part of Worcester Music Festival 2022.
Soundings is an exciting new event series that will bring some of the foremost experimental musical instrument makers and performers to Worcester St Swithun's. Funded through Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, the year-long series of events at St Swithun's will launch as part of Worcester Music Festival 2022.
The first event will see an incredible line-up of performers deliver a Show & Tell session from 3pm - 5pm, where the artists will discuss and demonstrate their creations.
Then, the artists will return for a second session at 7 pm, when an evening of performances will begin!
*Please note that for the evening show, anyone under the age of 18 will need to be accompanied by an adult, this also applies to anyone under the age of 18 that is purchasing an all day ticket (includes evening performance).
Show & Tell £4.00 (all ages)
Evening Performance £9.00 (18+ or under 18's accompanied by an adult)
All Day Ticket £12.00 (18+ or under 18's accompanied by an adult for evening show)
For tickets click here
*Please note, these events will be filmed throughout.
Sarah Kenchington will bring her remarkable and constantly evolving semi-mechanical, human-powered orchestra. Designed to be played by one person and create music that is dictated, in part, by the uncontrollable nature of the instruments in the set-up. These include a pedal-powered double-ended hurdy-gurdy banjo, a mechanical sequencer, and a brass band section which uses balloon membranes.
Lee Patterson’s highly distinctive work exploits mechanical and chemical synthesis. Using sound making and recording to devise performances with a selection of amplified objects, devices and processes, from rock chalk to springs, from burning nuts to vibrating metal, he creates a novelty of playing objects and situations otherwise considered mute.
Mammoth Beat Organ
is a modular, mechanical music contraption created by Sam Underwood and Graham Dunning. This two-player, semi-autonomous musical instrument plays unusual, sometimes erratic compositions drawing on drone music, minimalist repetition and fairground organ techniques.