WinterSound 2025

WinterSound is back for 2025, and this year comprises a Royal Musical Association Study Day followed by an evening of performance. 

Separate tickets should be booked for the Study Day and the WinterSound performances. The exhibition and installation in the Daphne Oram building is not ticketed. 

Royal Musical Association Study Day: Musical glocalities and their influence; Sound, geography, community

Friday 17 January, 12noon - 4.30pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music

How do issues of geography and community impact on the practices of free improvisation and experimental music? What relationships exist between geographically diverse new music groups? How does the individual musician relate to the group, and how does the group relate to the wider new music community, if there is such a thing?

Representatives of the Wandelweiser collective, Free Range, Union Division and The Six Tones, together with Professor Matt Wright (Canterbury Christ Church University), Professor Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern University) and Maureen Wolloshin (UCA PhD candidate) will discuss and perform responses to these questions.

This practice-based study day will take place under the auspices of Canterbury’s award-winning Free Range series and the annual Wintersound Festival at Canterbury Christ Church University. The outcomes of our performances and discussions will be shared at Northwestern University, Illinois in 2025.

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WinterSound 2025: Sound, geography, community

Friday 17 January, 7 -10pm, Anselm Studio 1, Anselm building, CCCU

Canterbury is warmed from its midwinter chill by striking presentations and performances by local, national, and international sound makers, focusing on the newest of new music and sound. We continue our collaboration with Free Range, Canterbury Christ Church University and dynamic artists from across the UK and EU, including Sam Bailey, Sophie Stone, Free Range Orchestra, Union Division and representatives of the Wandelweiser collective and The Six Tones. An event open to all with an interest in new music and sound.

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Programme

Royal Music Association Study Day: St Gregory's Centre for Music, 12noon - 4.30pm

• 12.00 - Register at St. Gregory’s Church
• 12.30 - Introduction: Maureen Wolloshin and Matt Wright
• 12.45 - Sam Bailey (Free Range)
• 1.15 - Dr Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern University)
• 1.45 - Sophie Stone: New Work (world premiere)
• 2.15 - Coffee break
• 2.45 - Q+A
• 3.10 - Antoine Beuger (Wandelweiser collective)
• 3.30 - Sophie Stone with Maureen Wolloshin
• 3.50 - Nguyễn Thanh Thủy with Matt Wright
• 4.10 - Nguyễn Thanh Thủy: Performance
• 4.30 - Finish

Daphne Oram Building: 5 - 7pm

• WinterSound Student Exhibition Launch (Daphne Oram Gallery)
• Launch of Magz Hall's immersive installation Wastelands: Walley’s Quarry, with music from Mieko Shimizu, supported by Screen South and ACE. (Room DO.0.02)

WinterSound Performances: Anselm Studio 1, 7 - 9.45pm

• 7.00 - Moss Freed (Union Division) and Sean Williams (Free Range Orchestra) in conversation with Maureen Wolloshin and Matt Wright
• 7.30 - Union Division performance
• 8.30 - Interval
• 8.45 - Free Range Orchestra
• 9.45 - End