Venue: Site Gallery

SOUNDS OF NOW WORKSHOP

Sheffield CoMA

Site Gallery, Sheffield
Thursday 19 May 2022, 4.30pm / 5.30pm

FREE, please book through box office

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*Please note the new start time for this event*

You are welcome to attend from 4.30pm to observe the process of this workshop, or to join the group at 5.30pm to watch the partcipants’ performances of Sarah Hennies’ Growing Block and Joanna Bailie’s Hildegardestraße Bundesallee.

Led by Sheffield CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) in partnership with Sheffield Music School, this workshop features new works for mixed ensemble. Edward Henderson of Bastard Assignments also joins the session to reflect on the branches of experimental practice that have informed both CoMA and his group, ahead of their Sounds of Now concert the same evening.

SOUNDS OF NOW

Bastard Assignments

Site Gallery, Sheffield
Thursday 19 May 2022, 9.30pm

Tickets: £10  
£8 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s

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Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley, Josh Spear

These four composer-performers integrate theatre, spoken word, choreography and visuals into their music-making, often coated with a deliciously wild sense of humour. Their music is beautiful, wonderful and endlessly surprising. Expect the unexpected!

Sounds of Now is a platform for musicians who are creating and exploring some of the most exciting artistic ideas today, nurturing talent, inspiring new thinking and provoking debate. This new series from Music in the Round is your invitation to engage and connect with music in new ways. 

Find out more and join the conversation online.

“One of the most exciting forces in contemporary music ”

Financial Times

About the Artists

Bastard Assignments

Bastard Assignments are Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley and Josh Spear, four composer-performers making experimental music. We work collaboratively and have developed a shared practice that encompasses concert music, movement work, online pieces, text, video, improvisation and performativity. We organise performances in London and show work across the UK and internationally.

In 2020 we performed at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and then, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, embarked on an exploratory body of work we called Lockdown Jams. These were pieces made remotely over the internet both by us, and a wide range of practitioners whom we commissioned with the support of Arts Council England’s COVID Relief Fund.

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