Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

ANRAN FEST

ANRÁN FEST: Devon's first Asian street food and music festival

Leading South Devon venue, ANRÁN at Tidwell Farm, renowned for its superb setting and unique event space, is hosting the region’s first Asian Street Food and Music Festival in support of Cancer Research UK and Children’s Hospice South West.

The two-day event, featuring some of the UK’s most exciting chefs and musicians, will take place on 29th and 30th August at the South Hams farm. Founded by global fashion and hospitality guru couple Edwin Ho and Mike Jowett, ANRÁN FEST aims to create an unforgettable live outdoor experience for people across the South West, whilst giving back to...

Music: Resounding Seizures

Research Concert

ICCMR post-graduate research student Alan D Miles used electrical brain signals recorded during epileptic seizures to compose Resounding Seizures. A cinematic piece of electronic music, the composition attempts to capture and explore the experiences of epilepsy.

Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

Free admission, booking advised

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/resounding-seizures

Music: Life Music

Research Performance

Colours of Life and Fiction (for marimba and viola): Richard Abbott Arecibo (for marimba): Alexis Kirke Queen Canute (clarinet and electronics): Núria Bonet

While Abbott explored the relationship between colours and sounds to write Colours of Life and Fiction inspired by the River Dart in Devon, Kirke composed Arecibo with DNA information sent from Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory to a distant star constellation in search for extra-terrestrial life. Bonet’s Queen Canute explores the musical structures that can be found in animal behaviour in a duet for...

Music: Decoding Life with Ensemble Bash

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival Gala Concert

Reptile Rhythms: Duncan Williams Life-force: Archer Endrich Babbling Baobab: Marcelo Gimenes Artibiotics: Eduardo R Miranda

Join the phenomenal percussion group Ensemble Bash for the premiere of extraordinary new music by ICCMR composers, Williams, Gimenes and Miranda, plus 2018’s guest composer and music technology pioneer, Archer Endrich.

Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

£10/£7/ Peninsula Arts Friends free

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/decoding-life-with-ensemble-bash

Music: Algoshorts 2018 Film Fest

The second edition of the world’s first public fest of short fiction films on the topic of algorithms presents a number of short films from around the world including the first screening of Alexis Kirke’s Decode here, a film about the potential effects of online political populism on mental health.

Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

Free admission, booking advised

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/algoshorts-2018

Music: The Art of Biology

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival launch and talk

With talk by Dr Markus Schmidt, Director of Biofaction

Biofaction is a company based in Vienna, Austria, which conducts research and provides consultancy in the areas of emerging biotechnologies, art and science collaboration, and public communication of science.

Free admission, booking advised

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/the-art-of-biology

Music: Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

A showcase of extraordinary new technologies and approaches to composition and performance that are pushing the boundaries of music

Decoding Life is the theme of this year’s festival, which celebrates the internationally renowned research combining music, engineering and the life sciences developed at Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).

Decoding Life proposes a weekend of musical allusions to human endeavours to understand, modify, simulate and even create life.

Friday 2nd – Sun 4th March

Programme of events:...