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Celebration Event: Microtonal
In Conversation: Michael Finnissy
In Conversation: Nick Roth
In Conversation: Lauri Supponen
Treeline: Roots & Branches (performance @ 2pm)
Workshop: Sounds of future past – explore Daphne Oram’s archive recordings
Workshop: Nik Bärtsch
Workshop: Music at Play – The Grumpy Monster in the Woods (SESSION 2)
Workshop: Music at Play – The Grumpy Monster in the Woods (SESSION 1)
Workshop: Microtonal
SYKLIT
XN: Zimmermann / Lienhard
XN: Shabnam Parvaresh
XN: RaumZeitPiraten
Saxtronauts: Exobiology
Saxtronauts: Ave Maris Stella
Rhodri Davies + Áine O’Dwyer
Natural Abstraction II
Julija Bagdonavičiūtė: Anamorphosis
HIVE Choir
Heather Roche
CONDENSED MUSIC
Andy Ingamells
Across the North Sea: Barbara Drazkov
hcmf// 2026 Full Festival Saver (SOLD OUT)
hcmf// 2026 Weekend 1 Saver
hcmf// 2026 Weekend 2 Saver
hcmf// shorts
Installation: Microtonal
Zöllner-Roche Duo: Lauri Supponen
XN: Simon Rummel, Sonia Allori, Lore Amenabar Larrañaga, Emil Karlsen + Milana Sarukhanyan
The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters // Katariin Raska + Villem Jahu
Shovel Dance Collective // Radical Polish Ansambl
Rob Hao: Finnissy @ 80
Riot Ensemble
rainfair
Quatuor Bozzini
Orchidées
Nik Bärtsch
Myself/Myself/Myself
Marie Schreer: Picea
Hayley Suviste: Oma juured
Marco Fusi
Kris Kuldkepp // Opus 58
Jan Hendrickse + Faqir Zulfiqar
Ensemble Resonanz: Rebecca Saunders // Ann Cleare (pre-concert talk @ 6pm)
Ensemble Proton + Schola Heidelberg: James Dillon // Naomi Pinnock (pre-concert talk @ 5pm)
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn
Electric Circus + Juno 3
Diego Castro Magas + Cristián Alvear: Jürg Frey
DEAR, DEAR
Collegium Novum Zürich + Steamboat Switzerland
Artisans: Synthetic Piss (SOLD OUT)
Reich @ 90 // Feldman @ 100
A Grammar of Distance
Workshop: Resonances of Nusantara
Music at Play: Sound Canvas
Installation: Paradoxical Symmetries: A Huddersfield Polytope
Exhibition: Paradoxical Symmetries
Film: Every Sound a Jewel
When I grow up to be the apocalypse
Soundwalk: Betweenness
Paradoxical Symmetries: A Huddersfield Polytope
Monty Adkins + Ria Bagley: Sonic Ecologies
Installation: Tipping Point
Film: Tell It To The Trees
Installation: Reclaimed Land
In conversation: Graham McKenzie + Tim Isfort
Installation: 62 Group + Gavin Osborn
XN: Carolin Pook, Adam Denton, Alexander Painter, Gloria Yehilevsky + Jui Ying Huang
XN: Evi Filippou + Robert Lucaciu / Akiko Ahrendt, Annie Bloch + Emily Wittbrodt
XN: Stefan Schultze
Mark Reid Bulatović + Thorkell Nordal: animistic rituals
Edgy Palates: Queen of the Night
Heiner Goebbels + Raymond MacDonald
Sonic Threads: Ultimate Breath / Helen Anahita Wilson + Tuulikki Bartosik
Natalie Hyacinth: After The End of The World: Act I LIVE
[Line-up change] Heiner Goebbels + Fred Frith
Frazer Merrick: Musical Mudlarking
Sarah Hennies: Fleas
Tomoko Hojo
Darragh Morgan
Heiner Goebbels + Mingo Rajandi
Natalie Hyacinth: After The End of The World (installation version)
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
Marlaut
RÓIS / Milkweed
Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul
The Carice Singers: Pärt @ 90
Saxtronauts
Sholto Dobie / Jessie Marino / Fred Frith
Saviet/Houston Duo: Sarah Hennies
ONCEIM: Christian Marclay + Genevieve Murphy [SOLD OUT]
Mivos Quartet: The Trees are Talking
Mivos Quartet: Sarah Hennies
London Sinfonietta
Lady Sapiens
hcmf// x Moers: XN (Day Ticket)
hcmf// x Cultures of Climate
hcmf// 2025 Opening Weekend Saver
hcmf// 2025 Full Festival Saver
Explore Ensemble
Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble (EMA) [SOLD OUT]
Ensemble Contrechamps
Dedalus Ensemble: Motor Tapes
Across the North Sea: Martyna Basta / Aleksandra Słyż [SOLD OUT]
loomeweight
Common Objects
Atefeh Einali / Claudia Molitor
Wadada Leo Smith: Fire-Love Expanse
Helen Anahita Wilson
Finn O’Hare
Tytti Arola: Yrttitarha (performance 2)
Putkamelodraama
Furrowed + Alexander Painter
Steady State
Linda Jankowska
Lina Lapelytė: Pirouette
Paul Scully
Marie Schreer + Taher Adel
David Sappa
Lina Lapelytė: Ladies
Heather Roche + Maija Hynninen
Ligeti Quartet
Jugalbandi workshop with Helen Anahita Wilson
Zubin Kanga
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
Eating a Man
Shovel Dance Collective
Hanna Hohti: Seidr
Ghost Trance Duo / Cath Roberts
In Conversation: Claudia Molitor
Gaireacht
Richard Uttley + Ben Goldscheider
Harmonic Space Orchestra
Music at Play
In Conversation: Lina Lapelytė (rescheduled)
In Conversation: Bára Gísladóttir
hcmf// shorts 2024
Ward – 4
Compose It!
Lina Lapelytė: Candy Shop – The Circus
Noise Uprising
Tytti Arola: Yrttitarha (performance 1)
Installation: Yrttitarha
Bára Gísladóttir
The Current Climate
Installation Opening: Ääni
Installation: Ääni
hcmf// 2024 Full Festival Saver
hcmf// 2024 Opening Weekend Saver
Arditti Quartet @ 50
The Monochrome Project
Lina Lapelytė: Study of Slope
Enno Poppe: 10 drummers
GBSR Duo + Twenty Fingers Duo
Ligeti Quartet plays Wadada Leo Smith
Explore Ensemble + Okkyung Lee
defunensemble
Crash Ensemble: TERRARIUM
Nick Roth + Ragnar Árni Ólafsson
Installation Tour: The Calder in your Bones
Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees
Panel Discussion: Why make art about anything else?
Panel Discussion: Is Europe Greener?
Noise Fields
Jürg Frey @ 70: Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit
In Conversation: Jürg Frey
In Conversation: Liza Lim
In Conversation: Jennifer Walshe
In Conversation: Žibuoklė Martinaitytė
A Walk with We In Front
AT THE FIRST SOUND, THE WHOLE WORLD FREEZES
The Carriacou – Huddersfield Connection
Sound Waves
GBSR Duo + David Zucchi
Éliane Radigue: ASYMPTOTE VERSATILE
They have waited long enough
Martin Arnold: Flax
Mivos Quartet
Michel Chion: Requiem
The Contest of Pleasures
Stone Drawn Circles
Hadal Zone
Ensemble Nikel + Noa Frenkel
Oslo Sinfonietta
Arturas Bumšteinas: Stand-by for Minna
Experimental AI Approaches to Composition workshop with Maria Sappho
Sharif Sehnaoui: 20000022
KOGG
Music at Play with David Insua-Cao (babies + young toddlers)
AN GLÉACHT
Harry Gorski-Brown
Music at Play with David Insua-Cao (older toddlers + pre-schoolers)
Navigations
edges ensemble
Taming the Air
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra + Winnie Huang
Four Violins
Apartment House: Lithuanian Landscapes
Nadar Ensemble
Lucy Nolan
Sound Collage workshop with Rebecca Lee (women + gender minorities)
Olivia De Prato
Sound Collage workshop with Rebecca Lee (open to all)
Rosie Middleton
Christopher Duffin + Teresa Winter
Beginner’s Guide To Slow Travel
The Landscape Series
GBSR Duo / Liudas Mockūnas
ADVERT
Join us for a nap
Jürg Frey @ 70: Quatuor Bozzini
Jürg Frey @ 70: Reinier van Houdt
Jürg Frey @ 70: EXAUDI
hcmf// 2023 Full Festival Saver
PERSONHOOD
Ireland: A Dataset
hcmf// 2023 Opening Weekend Saver
Matmos + Jennifer Walshe / b-l duo
Panel Discussion: Why Do Arts Collectives Matter?
Panel Discussion: The Future Reimagined
Meet the Composer: Raven Chacon
Meet the Composer: Lisa Streich
Jan Hendrickse: Black Noise
Sneeze Etiquette
Riot Ensemble / Raven Chacon + Marco Blaauw / b-l duo
Heather Roche + Eva Zöllner
Sam Longbottom + Tanguy Pocquet
Ann Rosén
Freedom to Move
Yoko Konishi / Polymer Hauntings / Megan Steinberg
drop after drop
Ben Smith + Patricia Auchterlonie
180 Hammer Blows Against the War Monkeys
The Oram Awards 2022
David Granström
Workshop: composing and improvising beyond the human
Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros
Panel Discussion: Oram Award Winners
Ulysses Journey 2022
Archive Deep Dive (open to all)
Archive Deep Dive (women + gender minorities)
Relax-Sing for Wellbeing
This Order Goes Wrong
Twenty Fingers Duo
The Swan
String Air Synthesis
Séverine Ballon
Red Note Ensemble
Riot Ensemble 1
Riot Ensemble 2
Quatuor Diotima
Pat Thomas
Moving Picture (946-3)
lovemusic: Talking Music
Music at Play: FloooOOOooot! (babies + young toddlers)
Music at Play: FloooOOOooot! (older toddlers + pre-schoolers)
Listen To My World
Julia Holter: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Explore Ensemble + Mark Fell
hcmf// 2022 Full Festival Saver
hcmf// 2022 Weekend 1 Saver
hcmf// 2022 Weekend 2 Saver
EXAUDI
Ensemble intercontemporain
Crash Ensemble
Decibel
Chornobyldorf. Archaeological opera
Australian Art Orchestra: Solos
Australian Art Orchestra + Cath Roberts + Mandhira de Saram
Polar Force – Array
Answer Machine Tape, 1987
Andreas Borregaard
Agglomeration of Measurement
Alan Davie: Painting, Music, Film
Andrew Zolinsky
Talk: Chaya Czernowin
Workshop: Little Sing (Session 2)
London Sinfonietta (SOLD OUT)
hcmf// shorts 3 (SOLD OUT)
hcmf// shorts 2 (SOLD OUT)
hcmf// shorts 1 (SOLD OUT)
John Butcher + 13 (SOLD OUT)
Eupepsia/Dyspepsia (SOLD OUT)
Chaya Czernowin: HIDDEN (SOLD OUT)
Laurence Osborn: Essential Relaxing Classical Hits (SOLD OUT)
The Riot Ensemble (SOLD OUT)
Dillon 2: Irvine Arditti + Noriko Kawai (SOLD OUT)
Cath Roberts
Ensemble Musikfabrik (SOLD OUT)
Dillon 1: Red Note Ensemble (SOLD OUT)
GBSR Duo + Eva-Maria Houben
Explore Ensemble: Systema Naturae (SOLD OUT)
Workshop: Little Sing (Session 1)
Georgia Rodgers: Tonewood
More Than One Thing
The cold black rain shall be your coat
Entity
Listen to my World (POSTPONED)
Artist to Artist// In Conversation: Clara Iannotta + Cassandra Miller
Artist to Artist// In Conversation: George E. Lewis and Mariam Rezaei
Artist to Artist// In Conversation: Annea Lockwood + Auclair
Unbound Listening #1
Music at Play – Session 2
Music at Play – Session 1
Thin Air
Anna Koch + Claudia Molitor
Space Afrika + Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh
Podcast: Ziad Nawfal
Zeitgeist Commissions: Tonia Ko
Zeitgeist Commissions: Auclair
Zeitgeist Commissions: Heloise Tunstall-Behrens
Zeitgeist Commissions: Anna Appleby
Zeitgeist Commissions: Matthew Grouse
Zeitgeist Commissions: Hannah Kendall
hcmf// Young Curators’ Programme: Charlotte Roe
Memorial of Rebellion
Dillon @ 70
Raymond MacDonald + Rachel Joy Weiss
Hayley Suviste
Heather Roche / GBSR Duo
Matt Wright
Speak Percussion + Lamine Sonko
Podcast: The Riot Ensemble
Kelly Jayne Jones
Sarah Cahill
