“NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET” — MUSIC DECLARES EMERGENCY
We are pleased to share the final details of The Current Climate events taking place on Thursday 23 November at hcmf// 2023, completing this edition of the festival’s programme. Launched in 2022, The Current Climate is our ongoing exploration of the cultural world’s far-reaching influence on sustainability, and a consideration of issues involving artists, organisers and audiences around the world.
Creative work has the power to emphasise and amplify our relationship to the environment, shaping our thinking and pointing to solutions. Throughout the day, hcmf// will take a holistic look at the music industry’s potential as a positive force for a sustainable future. We’ll think about how artists channel environmental activism through their music, while also examining the idea of industry messaging and how festivals can make climate change the topic sentence of their programming.
Explore the events in this free-to-attend, day-long programme below:
11.30am | Panel Discussion: Is Europe Greener?
A discussion on how cultural organisations and artists across Europe are responding to the challenges brought about by the environmental crisis.
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1.00pm | Noise Fields
A concert of percussion and electronics with musician, composer and installation artist Colin Frank, informed by field recordings of the machines that pervade our urban environments.
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2.30pm | Panel Discussion: Why make art about anything else?
This discussion interrogates the impact music makes on the climate crisis, as well as the impact it has the potential to make.
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4.00pm | Installation Tour: The Calder in your Bones
Sonic artist David Vélez invites us on a tour of his new sound installation, made with industrial duct, fur and electroacoustic bone transducers.
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7.00pm | Nick Roth + Ragnar Árni Ólafsson
The pair perform new material and improvisations based on various event scores from Jennifer Walshe’s The Text Score Dataset 1.0.
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9.00pm | Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees
The World Premiere of a new work from musician and sound artist Natalia Beylis, commissioned by hcmf// and Kirklees Year of Music 2023.
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The 46th edition of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, hcmf// 2023, takes place Friday 17 – Sunday 26 November 2023. Explore the programme in full here.