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Salford Sonic Fusion Festival 2012

Salford Sonic Music Festival

The Music Department of the University of Salford is delighted to announce the first Salford Sonic Fusion Festival which will take place Thursday 26 April – Sunday 29 April.

The festival, curated by the Unviersity of Salford's Head of Music, Stephen Davismoon will bring cutting-edge international experimental contemporary music to Salford.

The festival will include seminal works by John Cage, Luciano Berio, and Cornelius Cardew, as well as works by current staff and students of the University of Salford, including Dr Alan E. Williams, Stephen Davismoon, and Jan Kopinski. Genres spanning contemporary art music to jazz and folk will be included, and audio-visual works will also be featured.

Artists from around the world will be visiting and performing at the university, so this is a wonderful opportunity to hear world-class contemporary music. For example, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, legendary jazz bassist from the USA, will be performing in Simon Best’s work Tort . Federico Sanguinetti from Italy will be here to perform the narrator’s role in Berio’s Laborintus II, which will be conducted by Marco Visconti-Prasca, also from Italy. Lithuanian concert pianist Lauryna Šablevičiute will be performing a John Cage portrait concert on Sunday night.