MANTIS Festival: Sound in Words
5 – 6 March 2022
Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester, UK
MANTIS presents 4 concerts of new music featuring works that explore intersections of the spoken word with electroacoustic media. Highlights include guest artist Cathy Lane (concert artist and symposium keynote speaker), new music by composers based at the University Manchester and works selected from an open call.
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Concert 1: Saturday 5 March 6:00 PM
John Thaw Studio Theatre
Cathy Lane — Square Peg Round Hole — 2021
Cathy Lane — Tweed — 2008
Cathy Lane — Am I here? — 2014
Cathy Lane — Hidden Lives — 1999
Concert 2: Saturday 5 March 7:30 PM
John Thaw Studio Theatre
Theodore Lotis — Voices — 2020
Cameron Naylor — Lleuad Goch — 2022
Giovanni Onorato — No Future — 2021
Ella Kay — Prints Considered — 2022
Brona Martin — Breaking the Chains — 2021
Rufus Murphy — Concrete — 2022
João Castro Pinto/Sofia A Carvalho — HIANTE v.02 — 2019
Jake Parry — Loss — 2022
Ben Nobuto — Where Parallel Lines Meet — 2020
Leah Reid — Sk(etch) — 2018
Andreas Monopolis — Ψ / Λ — 2017
Sun Chenhui — Iron Dream — 2022
Concert 3: Sunday 6 March 1:00PM
John Thaw Studio Theatre
João Pedro Oliveira — N’vi’ah — 2019
Sarah Keirle — Keystone — 2020
Juan Vasquez — Mono no Aware — 2020
Joshua Gardner — Feeling by Numbers — 2022
Jay Afrisando — Drama Kata-Kata — 2020
Tom Julian — Coast to Coast — 2022
Stelios Giannoulakis — Word Pop — 2019
Penelope Bekiari — Sedaha — 2022
Concert 4: Sunday 6 March 3:00PM
John Thaw Studio Theatre
Jon Christopher Nelson — and sometimes wind from the south — 2021
George Edmondson — La Vie d’un Cynge — 2022
Tasos Asonitis — Exhibits — 2022
Liran Yuzbegi — Untitled Loop #2 — 2021
Rachel Beckles Wilson — Sacred Space — 2022
Michele Cheng — Speed Dating — 2020
Listening Room (all day Saturday) Room G16
Cort Lippe — Cerevo — 2018
Sylvain Souklaye — MYLITTLECHAOS — 2018
Sonic Palimpsest — Whispers of the Past — 2021
Emma Wilde/Mario Duarte — Migrante — 2022
Mariam Gviniashvili — LOTSVA / ლოცვა — 2021
Hayley Suviste — Edgeland — 2020
David Berezan — Runners — 2022
Keyi Shu — The Oneiric Nature — 2022
Ryan Woods — Reflections on a secret garden — 2022
Irving Kinnersley — Elegy 1: Time Present is Time Past — 2021
Sunday 10:00 AM Symposium “Sound in Words” (G16)
Cathy Lane (Keynote speaker)
Brona Martin
Palimpsest (Brona Martin, Andrew Knight Hill, Aki Pasoulas)
David Berezan
Ella Kay
Cameron Naylor
George Edmondson
Image text reads: Manchester 1824, The University of Manchester. NOVARS Research centre. Manchester Theatre in Sound. MANTIS Festival of Electroacoustic Music. ‘Sound in Words’. 5th – 6th March 2022. John Thaw Studio Theatre, Martin Harris Centre. University of Manchester. Featuring Guest Artist Cathy Lane.