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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Spotlight: RÓIS
🗓️ Wed 26 Nov 2025, 7:15pm |📍Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £25 // Solidarity £32.50 // Under 30 £10
Fermanagh-born RÓIS blends folk, sean-nós, jazz & electronic into immersive, ever-changing sound worlds, where ancient Irish tradition meets contemporary experimentation.
Link in bio.

hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 2d

Event Spotlight: XN (Xperimental Ncounters)

🗓️ Sat 29 Nov, 1–10pm
📍 Various venues
🎟️ Day ticket: £40 // £52 Solidarity

A day of bold cross-border sound + collaboration as hcmf// + Moers Festival unite for XN — new music, risk + connection.

Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/hcmf-x-moers-xn/

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in experimental music, sound art and improvisation? Volunteer at hcmf// 2025 this November.

Find out more and apply here: hcmf.co.uk/volunteer-at-hcmf-2025/

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 5d

ONCEIM perform the UK Premiere of hcmf// 2018 Composer in Residence Christian Marclay's Constellation at hcmf// 2025. A playful orchestral work from one of experimental music’s most inventive voices.

Sat 22 Nov, 7:30pm. Link in bio

hcmf.co.uk/programme/on...

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 8d

Polish composer Aleksandra Słyż brings the UK Premiere of Beneath, breathing (2024) to hcmf// 2025 — a monumental 40-min electroacoustic work of drones, pulsing rhythm + suspended time.

Sat 22 Nov, 9:45pm, Bates Mill.

Link in bio

hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 9d

Saviet/Houston Duo perform Sarah Hennies’ The Blue Hour (UK Premiere) at hcmf// 2025. 90 minutes of hypnotic repetition and fragile cycles. Violin and piano become a space to inhabit.
🗓️ 25 Nov, 12pm | 📍 St Paul's Hall
🎟️ £18 / £23.40 / £7 U30
Get your tickets now: hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 12d

Berlin’s Jessie Marino transforms the fiddle in SLOW BLINK (UK premiere) – layers of distortion + electronics create a radical, hypnotic sound world that resists resolution.

🗓️ 25 Nov, 7:15pm

Find out more: hcmf.co.uk/programme/sholto-dobie-jessie-marino-fred-frith/

hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 13d

Ville Aslak Raasakka turns field recordings + environmental sound into music that asks how we listen to the world around us. At hcmf// 2025, Mivos Quartet premiere his new work The Trees are Talking. Full profile, tickets + full programme now on sale in bio.

Profile by Tim Rutherford-Johnson

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 16d

Open Call: X perimental N counters
hcmf// & moers festival invite 4 UK musicians to a 3-day workshop with Carolin Pook, ending in a performance at hcmf// 2025!

27–29 Nov
Performance: 29 Nov
Fee: £1,400 (travel & accommodation covered)

Apply by: 09/10

hcmf.co.uk/open-call-x-perimental-n-counters/

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 26d

We’re celebrating Arvo Pärt’s 90th at #hcmf25

The Carice Singers: Sarah Was Ninety Years Old, The Beatitudes (22 Nov) 

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent: Annum per Annum (24 Nov) 

Saxtronauts: Summa for Saxophone Quartet (28 Nov)

Join us in honouring a timeless composer: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 26d

Image credit: Henry Seeley

hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 27d

hcmf// 2025 is on sale now

📅 21–30 Nov
✨ 50+ premieres
👤 Composer in Residence: Sarah Hennies (@sarahhennies.bsky.social )

🎟 Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/

Image © Henry Seeley (www.henryseeley.design)

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Aug 29

We dig repetition: Bryn Harrison. For 30+ years he’s reshaped how we hear time + memory. At hcmf// 2025,
Explore Ensemble premiere his new work in our opening concert.

Sign up to our newsletter for ticket news.

Words by Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Image © Lili Autumn

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Aug 8

We’re delighted to receive 3-year funding from The Hinrichsen Foundation to support our work with UK composers + experimental music creators.

A huge thank you for backing bold ideas and new sound worlds.

#hcmf #newmusic #contemporarymusic

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Cryptic Glasgow @crypticglasgow.bsky.social · Jul 3

Sonica Open Call 2026🎉Applications now open!

We're looking for UK & Ireland-based artists working in:
🔊 Sonic installations
🎥 AV performance
💻 Real-time visuals
🗓 Deadline: 25 Aug 2025

Apply now: sonic-a.co.uk/sonica-open-...

For UK & Ireland-based artists working in: Sonic installations Audio-visual performances Real-time visuals for performance. Apply at sonic-a.co.uk/sonica-open-call-2026 Drop-in Q&A sessions: 16 and 25 July at 14:00 RSVP to crypticprojects@gmail.com Accessibility Support Available: Video/audio/Word doc applications accepted Deadline extensions for access needs.

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎶 Summer Music Workshops for ages 11–16 at
Huddersfield Uni
🎧 Live music, recording & film scoring
🍽️ Hot lunch daily
🎟️ £13.50–£27 | Free places still available for FSM students
⚠️ Limited spaces – book now!
📩 [email protected]
🔗 Link in bio

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'll be there, as always.

hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jul 2

We’re thrilled to reveal the opening weekend of hcmf// 2025 (21–23 Nov): a packed programme of premieres + bold new work from Bryn Harrison, @sarahhennies.bsky.social, Christian Marclay, Mingo Rajandi + more.

More info: tinyurl.com/2vf3kj6n

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jul 2

We’re thrilled to reveal the opening weekend of hcmf// 2025 (21–23 Nov): a packed programme of premieres + bold new work from Bryn Harrison, @sarahhennies.bsky.social, Christian Marclay, Mingo Rajandi + more.

More info: tinyurl.com/2vf3kj6n

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jun 26

🎶 School’s Out! Music workshops for ages 11–16 at @huddersfielduni.bsky.social 🎧 No experience needed, lunch included!

🎛️ 28–29 Jul: Live Music Production
🎚️ 6–7 Aug: Recording Studio
🎬 26–29 Aug: Music for Film

£13.50/£27 | Free places for FSM
📩 [email protected]
🔗 tinyurl.com/muexwrvf

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · Jun 23

📣ARTIST CALLOUT: Our artist development programme Changing Gear is back!
🚂We’re looking for three emerging women or minority gender musicians/producers based in #Yorkshire and the #Humber to compose and perform new electronic pieces celebrating the 200th anniversary of modern rail. 🧵1/2

Graphic featuring audio waveforms criss-crossing in a way suggestive of railway tracks, overlaid with text in a font reminiscent of 1970s British rail, and the logos for YSWN and PRS Foundation. The text says: Changing Gear, create new electronic music inspired by 200 years of rail. Apply now.

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jun 11

What a weekend! Huge thanks to Moers Festival for hosting the debut of (X) perimental (N) counters, spotlighting bold, global voices in experimental sound.

Thanks to @gvl_de, @PPLUK & @goetheinstitut_london for the support.

Next stop: hcmf// 2025!

#NewSounds #hcmf

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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · Jun 9

Nice profile piece here if you ever wanted to know the broad strokes of everything i've ever done.

hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jun 9

@sarahhennies.bsky.social collects $5 thrift store bells—imperfect, overlooked, and full of life. In her hands, they ring with new purpose.

Hear her UK premieres at hcmf//.

Read our feature on Sarah here: tr.ee/ggfkhLX8IK

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Sarah Gen @sarahgen.bsky.social · Jun 9

SARAH HENNIES

hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jun 9

@sarahhennies.bsky.social collects $5 thrift store bells—imperfect, overlooked, and full of life. In her hands, they ring with new purpose.

Hear her UK premieres at hcmf//.

Read our feature on Sarah here: tr.ee/ggfkhLX8IK

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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · Jun 9

@sarahhennies.bsky.social collects $5 thrift store bells—imperfect, overlooked, and full of life. In her hands, they ring with new purpose.

Hear her UK premieres at hcmf//.

Read our feature on Sarah here: tr.ee/ggfkhLX8IK

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