THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN 2026
Lara Agar’s music blends electronic soundscapes and sampled material with traditional acoustic and classical instruments. Taking a home grown and intuitive approach, Lara’s interests lie in the accidental, the found, indeterminacy, messiness of stuff, experimental and collaborative music making, going with mistakes, (Becke� – “Fail again, fail be�er”), not knowing, and so on… Her work takes interest in voice: own voice, other voices, human voice, emulating voice.Performers and collaborators who have played Lara’s music include Juliet Fraser, Mark Knoop, Orkest de Ereprijs, Louis D’heudieres, Lola de la Mata,
members of the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Dance Company of Wales, Exaudi, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, National Youth String Orchestra, Vaganza, Matsena Productions, Waste Paper Opera Company, Satoko Inoue, Quatuor Danel and No Door Theatre Company.
Patricia Auchterlonie is a singer, performer, and maker looking to explore all that is playful/colourful/unexpected. She is fascinated with the human voice and with textile media, especially the possibile intertwinings of sound and thread. Current obsessions include english folk music, slow handicraft, and troubadour music. Upcoming projects include a new large-scale work, Garland, by Oliver Leith for Bold Tendancies 2025 and a return to the Roya Opera House. She is also devising/improvising the score for a new ballet, made collaboratively with artist Sarah Kate Wilson and dancer Maria Vincentelli. She has recently been seen at hcmf// 2024 with her textile-improvisation project, Loomeweight I and at the Zurich Opera House, creating the role of Lucia II in Beat Furrerʹs new opera Der grosse Feuer.
Cameron Dodds (1991-2021[?]) is/was a British composer whose work spans/ spanned an array of disciplines including film, visual art, and fiction writing. He has wri�en/wrote for ensembles such as Plus Minus Ensemble, Decibel, EXAUDI, and An Assembly, and has been/was commissioned by institutions such as Gaudeamus Music Festival, The Eden Project, The National Opera Studio, and LOD Muziektheater. His work is often concerned with the process in which fictions make themselves real and folkloric practices. In 2016 he was awarded the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Prize and in 2019 the Sound and Music Seed Award.
THE HAUNTED NETWORK RESEARCH INITIATIVE ARE AN
ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO ARCHIVING AND PRESERVING THE
WORK OF THE COMPOSER CAMERON DODDS. THROUGH
RESEARCH, COLLABORATION, AND CYBERNETIC STREGA-
HACKING; THE HNRI AIMS TO CONTEXTUALISE DODDS’ WORK AND
THE AESTHETIC REALM SURROUNDING IT. THE HNRI ARE
CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF WILLING THEMSELVES INTO
EXISTENCE.
Jack Sheen is a conductor and composer from Manchester, England. His music spans orchestral works to performance and sound installations, and he regularly works with leading orchestras, ensembles, galleries, and artists on concert and operatic performances, commissions, and interdisciplinary projects. Jack has had concert works commissioned by orchestras, ensembles and organisations such as the LSO, BBC Philharmonic, London Sinfonie�a, BBC Radio 3, Aldeburgh Festival, Apartment House, EXAUDI, Manchester Camerata, Aurora Orchestra, and Les Métaboles, alongside large-scale installations by Venice Biennale Musica and Neue Vocalsolisten Stu�gart, Casa de Serralves (Porto), and V&A Museum (London).
David Zucchi: praised for his ʺurgently visceralʺ playing (TEMPO), London- based Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi enjoys a varied career as a performer of classical, contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, collaborating regularly across the UK, Europe, and Canada. He has been featured by Nonclassical, Arraymusic, the Composers Platform, and the Royal Overseas League, appears on recordings from NMC, Another Timbre, Birmingham Record Company, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FMʹs The News Agents. Recent solo and collaborative performances include appearances at Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, London Contemporary Music Festival, Sounds Like This!, and Verbier Festival.
