Saturday November 15, 2025 | 7:30 pm |
D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT FIVE The Voxel Theater • Electro Acoustic Music of Britain
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It’s High Zero’s DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds.
Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical.
Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with only electronic instruments, much of it is made with a combination of both. Some of them are played on 4 speakers, some on 6 speakers and some on 8 speakers and some on more!
Listening, in this medium is different from “normal” music, I like to think of it as the difference, on a hot day, between standing in front of an air conditioner, and swimming in a cool lake. Seats are taken, the lights are dimmed, and the sound commences, there is nothing to see, everything is seen with the ears.
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Every year we at High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival try to present a historical retrospective of the electro-acoustic multichannel music of a different country. Considering our budget I think we’ve covered a LOT of ground! THIS year we go to Britain.
On the 15th A.M. will diffuse her selection of works representing a historical overview of multichannel electro-acoustic music from the United Kingdom on a specially installed 18.4 speaker system at The Voxel.
A.M. is a director of Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, or as it is more commonly known, BEAST, is a sound diffusion system specifically designed for the performance of electroacoustic music. It consists of a set of loudspeakers connected to a computer, usually controlled by a diffusion console. It is a long-running project of the Electroacoustic Music Studios at the University of Birmingham, founded in 1982 under the directorship of Jonty Harrison.
If you want to know more about this admirable institution you can read the wiki HERE, or their own website here.
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Here is a list of the possible works being presented.
Denis Smalley “Pentes” 1974
Jonty Harrison “Klang” 1982
Pippa Murphy “Caspian Retreat” 2003
Jonty Harrison “Internal Combustion” 2006
Helena Gough “Yolk” 2007
James Carpenter “Tangle” 2010
Natasha Barrett “Dusks Gait” 2018
Emma Margetson “Elapsing” 2021
Manuella Blackburn “Home Truths” 2023
Nikki Sheth “Chiroptera” 2024
Cameron Naylor “In the Whispering Gallery” 2025
Please don’t miss this extremely special presentation specially curated for Baltimore by the High Zero Foundation. Next year is the 10th anniversary of this festival when we will be going to explore Poland’s vibrant electro-acoustic heritage, and do a bit of a “greatest commissioned hits” of our festival.
See you at the VOXEL.
Love,
Martin Schmidt, Jeff Carey and Obie Feldi (curators) and the rest of the High Zero Foundation gang.
The Voxel is a beautifully refitted film theater on 25th Street. There will only be one show at the Voxel per night and you can pre-purchase tickets, if you like, at voxel.org
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