XN at Moers Festival
Curated by Graham McKenzie: Sophie Cooper, Tom Hawkins, Flo Christman, Jan Hendrickse, Heather Roche, Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson.
📅 22–23 May
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Lauri Supponen traces vast ideas to small turning points—where a tree falls, a line shifts, a direction bends. His music reveals how the smallest moments can ripple far beyond themselves.
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Announcing the hcmf// 2026 Composer in Residence: Lauri Supponen
A Helsinki-based composer, Supponen creates bold, collaborative work across sound, performance & installation.
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Image: © Pyry Kantonen
Announcing the hcmf// 2026 Composer in Residence: Lauri Supponen
A Helsinki-based composer, Supponen creates bold, collaborative work across sound, performance & installation.
Discover more — Link in bio.
Image: © Pyry Kantonen
We are thrilled to announce that hcmf// 2026 will take place from Friday 20 – Sunday 29 November.
Composer in Residence announcement coming soon — watch this space! 👀
From bold world premieres to immersive performances across Huddersfield, hcmf// 2025 wowed critics and audiences alike.
Celebrated for adventurous programming and amplifying experimental voices, the festival left a lasting mark.
Read more: hcmf.co.uk/hcmf-2025-what-the-press-had-to-say/
🎉 We are thrilled that Claudia Molitor’s Fever (hcmf// 2024 commission) has been shortlisted for the RPS 2026 Chamber-Scale Composition Award!
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The performance features two traditional grand pianos: one played directly by the artist, the other equipped with a self-playing mechanism triggered by MIDI data. The MIDI data can be generated and varied in real-time via additional keyboards, controllers, and AI agents. The sound of the self-playing piano can be modulated in real-time through preparations of the piano. Extracted MIDI data can also be used to trigger a variety of virtual pianos and piano samples.
Cracking session of augmented piano-bothering with Stefan Schultze at @hcmfuk.bsky.social
To everyone who joined us, supported us, collaborated with us, or simply listened, and to the wonderful artists who featured at this year’s edition: thank you. Your curiosity, commitment and openness are what keep hcmf// moving forward.
Day Ten closes hcmf// 2025 with a full Cultures of Climate programme — all free.
12–4pm: Soundwalk Betweenness
12–6pm: Tipping Point + Reclaimed Land
12pm: Tell It To The Trees
2pm: When I Grow Up to Be the Apocalypse
4pm: Paradoxical Symmetries
6pm: Sonic Ecologies
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Day Nine:
10–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation
10.30am Sound Canvas (Heritage Quay)
1pm XN: Stefan Schultze
3pm McKenzie in conversation w/ Tim Isfort
5pm + 9pm XN concerts at Town Hall.
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Day Eight of hcmf// 2025:
10am–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation
1pm Saxtronauts (St Paul’s Hall)
6pm Marlaut (Bates Mill Studio)
8pm Ensemble Contrechamps w/ Halal & Kokcharova.
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Fun times at my first-ever @hcmfuk.bsky.social 2025. My piece for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social is out now, with pretty mind-boggling insights from Graham McKenzie and a few unvarnished concert takes. This one's for lovers of numbers and sceptics of the UK’s arts funding. van-magazine.com/mag/huddersf...
Day Seven of hcmf// 2025:
10am–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation (Richard Steinitz Building)
1–3pm Resonances of Nusantara workshop
7.15pm Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul at Town Hall.
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Day Six of hcmf// 2025:
11am–4pm The Listening Room at AMPED Coffee (talk at 3pm)
3.30pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation launch
7.15pm RÓIS / Milkweed at Town Hall.
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Join us tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) at AMPED Coffee for After the End of the World: The Listening Room — a day of music, sound + reflection inspired by Natalie Hyacinth’s work. Frances & Natalie in convo at 3pm.
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Join us tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) at AMPED Coffee for After the End of the World: The Listening Room — a day of music, sound + reflection inspired by Natalie Hyacinth’s work. Frances & Natalie in convo at 3pm.
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Day Five of hcmf// 2025:
12pm Saviet/Houston Duo perform new work by @sarahhennies.bsky.social (St Paul’s Hall). 7.15pm Sholto Dobie, Jessie Marino and Fred Frith at Huddersfield Town Hall.
Today's tickets & schedule: tr.ee/EmpMLA5lZM
Mingo Rajandi's Lady Sapiens was the standout performance of the weekend, until that was EMA stole the show! Great weekend of music.
Day Four means our infamous hcmf// shorts programme from 12pm–12pm across St Paul’s Hall, Phipps Hall, Bates Mill + Town Hall. Installations, performances + late-night sets.
Full schedule: tr.ee/vy2551En5z
some apparatus of the Estonian Electronic
Music Society Ensemble, following their performance at @hcmfuk.bsky.social
Catch up with last night’s
@BBCRadio3
New Music Show live from #hcmf2025: Kate Molleson hosts Explore Ensemble premiering Bryn Harrison + ONCEIM performing Christian Marclay.
Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m....
Day Three of hcmf// 2025:
12pm Mivos Quartet: @sarahhennies.bsky.social (St Paul’s Hall)
3pm 'Lady Sapiens' (Bates Mill)
7pm London Sinfonietta (Town Hall)
10pm EMA is sold out.
Tickets for today’s schedule: tr.ee/w0h17Bls98
Day Two of hcmf// 2025 brings film, choral + cutting-edge performance:
11am Every Sound a Jewel
1pm Pärt @ 90
4pm Mivos Quartet
7.30pm ONCEIM (SO)
9.45pm Across the North Sea (SO)
Buy Tickets Here: tr.ee/aqxMh7d3-j
Fred Frith & Heiner for one night only… what serendipity…
hcmf// 2025 kicks off today!
Explore Ensemble opens at 7pm (Huddersfield Town Hall), followed by Dedalus Ensemble performing @sarahhennies.bsky.social’ Motor Tapes at 9.30pm (Bates Mill Blending Shed).
Remaining tickets here: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
Line-up update for hcmf// shorts:
Arnas Mikalkėnas can no longer perform. Stepping in is guitar legend Fred Frith, joining Heiner Goebbels for a unique duo encounter. Mon 24 Nov, 6:10pm.
hcmf.co.uk/programme/hcmf-shorts-4/
Frazer Merrick, Luis Fernando Amaya & Natalie Hyacinth spent 12 months exploring sustainable composition and creative sound practices. Their new works premiere at hcmf// 2025 later this month.
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Artist Spotlight: The Carice Singers
Don’t miss their hcmf// debut: Pärt @ 90 with organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent + Baltic & Nordic gems, incl. 2 UK premieres.
Sat 22 Nov, St Paul’s Hall.
🎟️ £32/£41.60/£7
Buy yours here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/the-carice-singers-part-90/
Artist Spotlight: Marlaut
Marlaut — a multisensory performance by Debbie Armour, Maria Sappho, Nadya Hatta & Arum Dayu — blends sound, film & textiles into a living folklore of sea, care & memory. UK Premiere at hcmf// 2025.
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