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Open Call: X perimental N counters
hcmf// 2026 now on sale
School’s Out! hcmf// Summer Holiday Workshops 2026
hcmf// x Moers: XN 2026 line-up announced
Announcing Lauri Supponen, Composer in Residence at hcmf// 2026
Claudia Molitor wins RPS Award for Fever (for 8 trumpets)
Claudia Molitor’s ‘Fever’ Shortlisted for RPS 2026 Award
hcmf// 2025: what the press had to say…
hcmf// 2025 in pictures
hcmf// 2025: How to do the festival for free
hcmf// 2025: Hidden Gems
Ourselves in shattered glass: Marta Śniady
Auscultation of the world: Olga Kokcharova
Volunteer at hcmf// 2025
hcmf// 2025 on sale now
Announcing a new three year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation
Announcing hcmf// 2025’s opening weekend
School’s Out! hcmf// Summer Holiday Workshops 2025
Announcing Sarah Hennies, Composer in Residence at hcmf// 2025
hcmf// x Moers: XN Debuts at Moers Festival 2025
School’s Out! Easter Holiday 2025 Workshops
Opportunity: join the hcmf// team!
Online Electronic Improv Club
hcmf// 2024 in pictures
hcmf// 2024: How to do the festival for free
hcmf// 2024: Hidden Gems
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Lina Lapelytė and Kathy Hinde
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Claudia Molitor and David Vélez
Volunteer at hcmf// 2024
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Zubin Kanga and Atau Tanaka
hcmf// 2024 full programme on sale now
Open call: Sustainable Composition & Creative Sound Practices
hcmf// 2024 opening weekend concerts on sale now
Compose It! Inviting 11-18s to compose new Riot Ensemble piece for hcmf// 2024
School’s Out! hcmf// Creative Summer School 2024
hcmf// announces three-year spotlight on Estonian music from 2025
Announcing Lina Lapelytė, Composer in Residence for hcmf// 2024
Artists selected for hcmf// x Perempuan Komponis residency
hcmf// shorts 2024 artists announced
Artist spotlight: Helen Anahita Wilson
Music at Play: Training session at Full of Noises
Open Call: hcmf// x Perempuan Komponis residency
Open call: hcmf// shorts 2024
School’s Out! Spring Holiday Workshops
Chornobyldorf wins at the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
Three-year focus on Finland to begin at hcmf// 2024
hcmf// and Perempuan Komponis: Forum & Lab to co-produce digital residency
Chornobyldorf nominated for Royal Philharmonic Society Award
Field Recording Course with Jo Kennedy
hcmf// 2023 in pictures
hcmf// 2023: How to do the festival for free
hcmf// 2023: Hidden Gems
hcmf// 2023: The Current Climate
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Charles Uzor and Liza Lim
Volunteer at hcmf// 2023
Sounding Stories: Drop-in Arts Award Discover workshops
Music at Play: online educational video series for babies and toddlers
On sale now: Jürg Frey @ 70
Craig Scott selected for Nadar Summer School 2023
Installation: Matthew Wright – Locked Hybrids
University of Huddersfield awards honorary doctorate to Graham McKenzie
School’s Out! Summer workshops at hcmf//
Jennifer Walshe is hcmf// 2023’s Composer in Residence
hcmf// shorts 2023 artists announced
hcmf// at Woven Festival
Open call: Opera Aperta laboratory for contemporary opera
Free lecture: Opera Aperta – contemporary opera in Ukraine in the time of permanent apocalypse
Graham McKenzie to receive honorary Doctorate from University of Huddersfield
Open call: Nadar Summer School, Antwerp
Open call: hcmf// shorts 2023
Fielding Talent round-up
2023 Call for Freelance Practitioners
Listen//Write: Experimental Writing Workshop with Chris Ruffoni
hcmf// 2022 in pictures
hcmf// 2022: How to do the festival for free
hcmf// 2022: Hidden Gems
Volunteer at hcmf// 2022
The ‘Future Reimagined’: bringing Ukrainian voices to hcmf// 2022
UK/Australia Season 2021-22
The sound of Swedish new music at hcmf// 2022
Open call: singers for Freedom to Move residency
hcmf// 2022 programme on sale now!
Watch a live performance from Rani Jambak, our Musician in Residence
hcmf// shorts: the final five
Panel Discussion: Sustainability in the Digital Age
Free talk: In the Field
Free hcmf// concert: Australian Art Orchestra
Open call: hcmf// shorts 2022
Meet our Australian Art Orchestra residents
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Rani Jambak and Supriya Nagarajan
Call for Music Creators for our Australian Art Orchestra residency
The Current Climate: ‘Culture and its potential to inspire positive climate action’
Claudia Molitor premieres ‘Listen to my World’ installation and website
Announcing Rani Jambak as our digital Musician in Residence
hcmf// on the radio
Workshop Opportunity: Introduction to Field Recording with Jo Kennedy
hcmf// Call for Freelance Practitioners
hcmf// 2021: Listen to Georgia Rodgers’ ‘Tonewood’
Listen to the first wave of Istimrar commissions
Watch our Q&A with Chaya Czernowin
hcmf// 2021: festival returns with 5-day programme of live events
Chaya Czernowin is our Composer in Residence for hcmf// 2021
Time goes inward: the music of Chaya Czernowin
Join us for an exhibition of music from the Our Biennale projects
New music from the Our Biennale projects
Unbound Listening #3
Kin_’s blog: The circulation of music between disparate landmasses
Join us for Khooghi at Sangam Festival
Kin_ (Cultura Plasmic INC) is our Artist of the Month for July
Check out the full hcmf// Artist to Artist talk archive
Join us for ‘Mini Oramics’ this Wednesday at Woven Festival!
Running on thin air: the evolution of Nicholas Moroz’s music
Nicholas Moroz is our Artist of the Month for June
Learn how to write about your music with Interior Motive
Heather Roche is our Artist of the Month
Lauren Sarah Hayes On Improvising With Live Electronics
Unbound Listening #2
Lauren Sarah Hayes is our Artist of the Month for April
Irtijal announces Istimrar Commission Series, in partnership with hcmf//
How to view the Lockdown Patchwork launch
Join us for our hcmf// School Holiday Programme!
Alex Ives highlights his label First Terrace Records
The crowd-sourced nature of Leafcutter John’s ‘Lockdown Patchwork’
Workshop Opportunity: Videography and film making for music with Aiwan Obinyan
Alex Ives (Specimens) is our Artist of the Month for March
Revisit the Zeitgeist Q&A and watch the Zeitgeist Commissions
Workshop Opportunity: Writing Text for Music
Hayley Suviste, Ryan Woods and the Manchester Soundwalk Collective
Join us for hcmf// Half Term
Hayley Suviste is our Artist of the Month
Sounds Now seeking curator for sound art project
Workshop Opportunity: Music at Play
Call for Freelance Practitioners
Introducing Lockdown Patchwork, a new commission for Leafcutter John
Listen Back: Ziad Nawfal Podcast
Listen Back: Riot Ensemble Podcast
Matt Wright is the first editor of ECHO, plus pre-order his new album
How to view hcmf// 2020
Announcing our Artist to Artist// In Conversation series for hcmf// 2020
An update regarding our broadcast programme
An announcement regarding our hcmf// 2020 installations
hcmf// 2020: live broadcasts, streams and installations make up alternative festival programme
Catching up with GBSR Duo
Charlotte Roe: Young Curator
An announcement about hcmf// 2020
Announcing the hcmf// Covid-19 Commissions
A Postcard from our Field Recordings Workshop
Celebrating the life and music of Simon H Fell
Watch a documentary about our 2019 programme for women in electronic music
hcmf// and the Riot Ensemble announce new Zeitgeist Commissions
Georgia Rodgers ‘Line of Parts’ released by SN Variations
Claye Bowler: Young Curator
Call for Music Creators: COVID-19 Commissioning Fund
Donate to hcmf//s COVID-19 Commissioning Fund
hcmf// is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner for 2020
hcmf// is part of Sounds Now
Jake Burdass: Young Curator
New Magnus Granberg CD features piece premiered at hcmf// 2019
hcmf//’s statement on Covid-19
Sound and Music’s Covid-19 Response for Aritsts
hcmf// on record
Devising Music
Introducing our Young Curators
Meet the Sound Pioneers!
hcmf// 2020 presents James Dillon @ 70
Devising Music Workshop: Call For Participants
hcmf// 2019: Our Highlights
Hilda Paredes Wins Ivors Stage Works Award for ‘Harriet’
Open Call: Sound Pioneers
Rebecca Saunders Wins RPS Award for ‘Yes’
Solos and plurals: the improvisation of John Butcher
Announcement: Nadah El Shazly Event Cancellation
hcmf// meets Keychange Initiative pledge for 2019
Mayke Nas is looking for trouble
hcmf// 2019: Hidden Gems
Frail notes: the music of Evan Johnson
Evan Parker celebrates 75 years of collaborative revolution
Can and Klavier: the music of Irmin Schmidt
Heiner Goebbels follows his instinct at hcmf// 2019
Juliet Fraser’s voice guides us through Naomi Pinnock’s ‘I Am, I Am’
Young Curators Programme: Open Call
Tickets for hcmf// 2019 now on sale
Not the bees: Heloise Tunstall-Behrens on her new music
Bye Alex!
Georgia Rodgers and ‘locatedness’
Claudia Molitor’s music of things
On the decks, NikNak rewinds found sound
hcmf// shorts: the Artists
Help Us To Make Double the Difference
Meet our new Young Curators Coordinator
Naomi Pinnock’s new work opens hcmf// 2019
At hcmf// 2019, Ann Cleare builds another world
Vacancy: Festival Manager
Threads II
Help us to shape a world class future for music in Kirklees
Meet Hanna Hartman, hcmf// 2019’s Composer in Residence
hcmf// shorts: Open Call
Kelly Jayne Jones: Rock Music
‘Decay’ Visits Austin, Texas: hcmf// comments on work permit issues
hcmf// presents Tarab Cuts at Irtijal 2019
Learn from John Butcher and Camilla Hoitenga at Time of Music
‘I love screaming on the mic’: On the road with hcmf// radio
‘Decay’ continues life with performance at IKLECTIK on 24 February
Meet the Participants: Huddersfield Professional Development Programme
Claudia Molitor hcmf// Commission Selected for ISCM World Music Days 2019
Rebecca Saunders Wins the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2019
Highlights, hidden gems, family events, local artists and hcmf// for free
hcmf// 2018: How to do the festival for free by Graham McKenzie
Huddersfield Professional Development Programme for Female Composers of Electronic Music
hcmf// 2018: the Hidden Gems
New 3-year partnership announced with Dutch Performing Arts
Calling Young Curators
World premiere brings together 100 images, 20 pianos and 20 pianists
Become an hcmf// music host
hcmf// 2018 full programme revealed, booking now open
hcmf// shorts 2018: the Finalists
Christian Marclay named as Composer in Residence for hcmf// 2018
In Here it’s not Prison: Engaging vulnerable and stigmatized communities in composition
Watch: Music for Young Players
James Dillon wins RPS Award for Tanz/haus : triptych 2017
PRSF Talent Development Partnership
Malin Bång: Playing with Time
hcmf// shorts | Applications now open
Workshop Participants Wanted
hcmf// @ Tampere Biennale
hcmf// joins the PRS Foundation’s Keychange Initiative to pledge to 50/50 gender equality by 2022
***POSTPONED*** CoMA Festival Two Day Workshop at St Paul’s Hall
***POSTPONED*** Call for workshop participants
CoMA Festival call for workshop leaders/conductors
The making of Laurence Osborn’s Ctrl
hcmf// 2017: How to do the festival for free…
John Butcher
Laura Cannell: Hunter Huntress Hawker
Kit Downes: never knowingly one thing alone
Polwechsel: ‘Standstill has never been useful for us’
hcmf// 2017: Hidden Gems
Magnus Granberg: on fertile ground
Alexander Schubert: ‘It would be a stupid idea to try to recreate a rave event’
CeReNeM Masterclass – Composition Workshop with Hilda Paredes
The Riot Ensemble: Champions of Contemporary Music
Rhodri Davies: Time on his hands
Listening After Pauline Oliveros – A Meditation
Linda Catlin Smith: ‘I love to be in a state of mystery’
hcmf// highlights
Podcast: Mira Calix
Music For Young Players
hcmf 2017 highlights announced
Mira Calix: by beings in two places at once
hcmf celebrates success in bid for Arts Council England funding
hcmf// announces a new co-commission from Rhodri Davies
hcmf// shorts: the final five 2017
Jennifer Walshe’s Everything Is Important continues its success
Rebecca Saunders takes RPS Award with hcmf// co-commission
Wanted: Yorkshire composers for education project
Two hcmf// 2016 composers nominated for RPS Music Awards
HRH The Earl of Wessex visits Huddersfield
Profile: Georg Friedrich Haas
Profile: Peter Brötzmann / Michael Wertmüller
Profile: Elliott Sharp
Wojtek Blecharz | Body-opera
hcmf// 2016: Hidden Gems
Kelly Jayne Jones pwhmobs Workshop
Music at Play: Contemporary Dance for Under 5s
White Cane: Salamanda Tandem
Interactive Art Workshop
Pop-Up Art School
Manasamitra: The Life of a Bee
hcmf// in Mexico City : John Butcher & CEPROMUSIC
hcmf// 2016 – highlights announced
hcmf// celebrates second funding success in two days
hcmf// receives £160,000 boost from Arts Council England
hcmf// in Philadelphia
2016 composer in residence revealed
Royal recognition for hcmf// & The University Of Huddersfield
