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BEAST FEaST 2020: A Note from Scott Wilson
When the BEAST Team gathered many months ago to start developing the theme of this year’s festival, we were inspired by the notion that despite…
BEAST FEaST 2020 Featured Artists: Heather Roche & Eva Zöllner
Since the very outset of our duo, working with electronics has been central to our practice. Our very first commission, for the Cologne Philharmonie’s TripClubbing…
BEAST FEaST 2020 Featured Artist: Simon Emmerson
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the relationship between performance and the performative gesture, and the acousmatic. I have spent most of my composing…
BEAST FEaST 2020 Featured Artist: The Virtual BEAST by Hans Tutschku
Some thoughts about listening in these confined moments… My time in Birmingham twenty years ago, working towards the Ph.D. with Jonty Harrison, was an extraordinary…
BEAST FEaST 2020 Featured Artist: Christopher Fox
A few years ago Scott Wilson asked me if I would be interested in creating something for BEAST. This was something of a surprise because…
Virtual Installations
Contraption by Peter Batchelor & Ian Bilson This installation presents a complex imaginary machine hidden within a series of largely featureless columns. It seems there…
Virtual Presentations
All presentations will be live streamed via Facebook, CLICK HERE. Friday 1 May 3pm More ideas and discussion with the festival’s artists. Louise RossiterMusic –…
Virtual Concerts
Most concerts will be live streamed via the Mixlr platform, CLICK HERE. Concert 3 – Video will be premiered on Facebook. beastmusic is on Mixlr…
Jorge Garcia Residency
We’re delighted to kick off our 2019-20 season by welcoming Colombian composer Jorge Garcia Moncada back to Birmingham for a short visit. No stranger to BEAST,…
Virtual BEAST FEaST 2020
Come Together Stay Home Friday 1 – Saturday 2 May 2020 Online Two days of virtual music, meeting, and ideas In 2020, four years after the election…