Thursday 16th and Friday 17 January, free entry. Hosted by Free Range and Canterbury Christ Church University.

Attendance is free. Tickets for the sessions on January 17th can be booked by following this link

https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2024/wintersound-2025

Abstract

How do issues of geography and community impact on the practices of free improvisation and experimental music? What relationships exist between geographically diverse new music groups? How does the individual musician relate to the group, and how does the group relate to the wider new music community, if there is such a thing?

Representatives of the Wandelweiser collective, Free Range, Union Division and The Six Tones, together with Professor Matt Wright (Canterbury Christ Church University), Professor Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern University) and Maureen Wolloshin (UCA PhD candidate) will discuss and perform responses to these questions.

This practice-based study day will take place under the auspices of Canterbury’s award-winning Free Range series and the annual Wintersound Festival at Canterbury Christ Church University. The outcomes of our performances and discussions will be shared at Northwestern University, Illinois in 2025.

Programme

Thursday 16th January 8pm, Free Range at Fruitworks, Jewry Lane, Canterbury

Performance by The Six Tones. Information is available here. Attendance is free. No booking required: https://freerangecanterbury.org/fr284/

Friday 17th January, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, Canterbury Christ Church University

• 12.00 – Register at St. Gregory’s Church

• 12.30 – Introduction: Maureen Wolloshin and Matt Wright

• 12.45 – Sam Bailey (Free Range)

• 1.15 – Dr Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern University)

• 1.45 – Sophie Stone: New Work (world premiere)

• 2.15 – Coffee break• 2.45 – Q+A

• 3.10 – Antoine Beuger (Wandelweiser collective)

• 3.30 – Sophie Stone with Maureen Wolloshin

• 3.50 – Nguyễn Thanh Thủy with Matt Wright

• 4.10 – Nguyễn Thanh Thủy: Performance

• 4.30 – break

Daphne Oram Gallery, 4.30-6pm

• 5.00 Launch of the WinterSound student exhibition

• Music production students from the School of Creative Arts and Industries present music and sound on the themes of ‘Sound, geography and community’.

Anselm Studio 1, 7pm-10pm

Canterbury is warmed from its midwinter chill by striking presentations and performances by local, national, and international sound makers, focusing on the newest of new music and sound. We continue our collaboration with Free Range, Canterbury Christ Church University and dynamic artists from across the UK and EU, including Sam Bailey, Sophie Stone, Free Range Orchestra, Union Division and representatives of the Wandelweiser collective and The Six Tones. An event open to all with an interest in new music and sound.

• 7.00 Moss Freed (Union Division), Anna Braithwaite and Sean Williams (Free Range Orchestra) in conversation with Maureen Wolloshin and Matt Wright

• 7.30 Union Division performance

• 8.30 interval

• 8.45 Free Range Orchestra

• 9.45 finish