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Festival of new and experimental music from @bbcsso 2 & 3 May 2026

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Happy memories from 2024 @tectonicsglas with @ilan.volkov and @bbcsso. An unforgettable evening spent with brilliant people and an amazing audience.

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, —I have something to say about the pythagorean comma, the small discrepancy in pitch of around a quarter of a semitone, that is observed when stacking twelve perfect fifths relative to seven octaves. it’s something to do with the arbitrary assignment of days of the year resulting in a quarter decimal differential but the not so arbitrary nature of numbers, the comma being approximately 23.46 cents, suspiciously close to the number of hours in a day but just not quite and anyway what does that matter, the thing I have to say about this has something to do with the insufficiency of language and how we can only attempt a fidelity of meaning in translating our experiences to someone through discrete sound and category and symbol and it is this struggling itself that allows us to even need to communicate at all, is it that tuning systems are a type of language or rather a constrained grammar of the lossy language that is music, something to do with the Tower of Babel and obviously something about god and what there was in the beginning, something to do with the word ‘comma’ itself also being of linguistic definition, coming from Ancient Greek ‘kómma’, meaning ‘to cut off’, the thing I’m wanting to circle back to has something to do with all this but I— ,

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The Tectonics Festival comes to Brussels for the very first time.

On 19 and 20 June 2026, Brussels Philharmonic and Ictus present a two-day festival in Flagey, featuring new music, improvisation, sound art, and bold, boundary-pushing listening expériences.

Founded in 2012 by conductor Ilan Volkov, Tectonics is now one of the world’s leading festivals for contemporary and experimental music, bringing together symphonic music, electronics, performances and sound art.

Across the entire building, concerts, installations, performances and improvisations invite audiences to move freely and discover new ways of listening.

FESTIVAL
Tectonics Festival
19.06 > 20.06.2026
Flagey, Brussels

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Reminiscing on all things @tectonicsglas with @bbcradio3 New Music Show.

You can catch the chat I had with @katemolleson plus, a snippet of my solo set live from The Old Fruitmarket.

Available on BBC Sounds. More from Tectonics in next week's show too!

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Thanks to @carolbmain at @thelistuk for the shout out! X

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ARCO&FLECHA RECOMMENDS...

NICOLE MITCHELL
EUROPEAN TOURS - MAY 2026!!

📸: Lauren Deutsch

NICOLE MITCHELL & CRAIG TABORN DUO
Nicole Mitchell, flute.
Craig Taborn, piano.

@blackearthmuse
@craigtaborn

LIVE AT…

03/05 Tectonics, with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow (Scotland)
@tectonicsglas

04/05 Porgy & Bess, Vienna (Austria)
@porgyandbessvienna

05/05 Maerz_jazz. Merta Klaviersalon, Linz (Austria)
https://maerz.at/nicole-mitchell-craig-taborn-merta/#veranstaltungsort

06/05 Jazz in Bess, Lugano (Switzerland)
@jazzinbess

09/05 Jazzclub Ferrara, Ferrara (Italy)
@jazzclubferrara

10/05 Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
@cankarjevdom

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BLACK EARTH SWAY

Nicole Mitchell, flute, electronics and voice.
Coco Elysees, diddley-bow, percussion and voice.
Zahili González, piano.
JoVia Armstrong, cajón, electronics and voice.

@blackearthmuse
@cocoelysses_conga_diddley_bow
@zahiligz
@dr.joviaarmstrong

LIVE AT…

23/05 Vic Bang Jazz Cava, 28e Festival de Jazz de Vic (Catalunya)
@festivaljazzvic

24/05 - 25/05 Moers Festival, Moers (Germany)
@moersfestival

26/05/26 Pantin. La Dynamo, Paris (France)
@banlieuesbleues

28/05/26 Teatro do Bairro, Lisboa (Portugal)
@teatrodobairroalto

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🔊 @soundartsuk's weekly listings of UK + Irish sound art (27 April – 03 May 2026) 🇬🇧 🇮🇪

In Issue 129 we feature Abbas Zahedi’s EX/IT: LIFT and Bushra Mustafa Dunne’s Keening with the rain /نواح المطر. We discuss acoustic solidarity, collective attunement, sculptural activation, physical forces, fields of vibration, noise shelters, sonic cannons, caoineadh, and much more…

Plus, we share details on 90+ sonic artworks, exhibitions and events that you can experience this week across the UK and Ireland.

Pink Loudspeaker is a weekly newsletter on UK and Irish sound art, you can subscribe here for free: 🔗 pinkloudspeaker.substack.com

[1]
Abbas Zahedi – EX/IT: LIFT
📍 The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
🗓️ 03 April – 14 June 2026
📷 Denis Mortell
@abbzah @dhg_dublin

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Bushra Mustafa Dunne – Keening with the rain / نواح المطر
📍 The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin
🗓️ 03 April – 14 June 2026
📷 Senija Topcic
@bushradunne @dhg_dublin

[3]
Aleksandra Kasuba – Shelters for the Senses
📍 Tate St Ives, St Ives
🗓️ 02 May – 04 October 2026
📷 Antanas Lukšėnas
#aleksandrakasuba @tatestives

[4]
Lucie Smith – Feel
Sting
📍 Auger Collective, Bournemouth
🗓️ 30 April – 09 May 2026
@luciesmithart @zestartscollective @auger_collective

[5]
Frédéric Le Junter – Where I Am (Part 2)
Tectonics Festival
📍 City Halls & Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
🗓️ 02–03 May 2026
@fredericlejunter @tectonicsglas

[6]
Nat Sharp – SPUME
Sounds From the Other City
📍 Working Class Movement Library, Salford
🗓️ 03 May 2026
@nat__sharp @sftoc

[7]
Ranti Bam – Sacred Groves
📍 South London Gallery, London
🗓️ 01 May – 23 August 2026
@baamtii @southlondongallery

[8]
Listening with Trees: Inside Lud’s Church and How to be a Forest
📍 The Whitworth, Manchester
🗓️ 30 April 2026
@whitworthart @henrydmcpherson @whalley_richard @sarah_keirle @themicrotonaltrumpetproject

[9]
Nathaniel Mann and Jamie Castell – Mimic Hoots & Redoubled Echoes: Wordsworth & Schwitters' Soundscapes
📍 Full of Noises, Barrow-in-Furness
🗓️ 02 May 2026
#nathanielmann @jamiecastellmusic @fullof.noises

[10]
Soundcamp 2026
📍Stave Hill Ecological Park, London
🗓️ 02–03 May 2026
@sound_camp

#soundart #sonicart

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More festivals! More music! More fun!

Here are more city fests to check out this year, everything from avant garde experimentalism to indie-pop to hip-hop to trad - our full Festivals Special is in our April issue and on the website

Queens Park Weekender photo by Fabio Pavia
Radhika photo by Ben Grieve
Bemz photo by @johnkateston
Brìghde Chaimbeul photo by Jonny Ashworth
Kim Carnie photo by Elly Lucas
Lucrecia Dalt at Tectonics by Alex Woodward
Alice Faye photo by Jean Yuzheng Zhang

#musicfestival #scottishmusic #glasgowmusic #edinburghmusic

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One of the most important dates in the Scottish new music calendar is just around the corner 🎵

@tectonicsglas returns to City Halls & Old Fruitmarket on 2 & 3 May 2026, staged by the @bbcsso and curated by Ilan Volkov.

This year’s programme fèatures three world premieres - new BBC commissions from Christopher Fox, Nicole Mitchell and Martin Smolka - plus three UK premieres. Scottish artists including Danielle Price and Callie Rose Petal feature alongside an international lineup of sound artists and composers.

🎟️ Weekend passes are only on sale until Friday 24 April, so if you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time. Day passes also available.
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Tickets via Glasgow Life / City Halls#
#Tectonics #TectonicsGlasgow #NewMusic #BBCSSO

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So much respect and admiration and gratitude for the brilliant Danielle Price whose utterly breath-taking song Soup was written and recorded especially for For Gaza With Love Vol III, which is available for pre-order now! Head to forgazawithlove.bandcamp.com for more info this very special fundraiser compilation series raising money to strengthen the devastated healthcare system in Gaza via @palmedacademy_ . And you can experience Danielle's mistressy-mastery and Magician-Musicianship live soon at @tectonicsglas on 02.05.26...

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Love how this photo shows part of the spatialisation in the galleries of City Halls, Glasgow, for the premiere of my timecode-supported polytemporal orchestral piece, ‘a point in the landscape’ with the @bbcsso at @tectonicsglas 24. Much more about how I composed works like this in my shortly forthcoming book, ‘Timecode-Supported Polytemporal Music: What It Is and How To Write It’ published by Vision Edition and available from @composersedition

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Any composers/creators under 30 interested in a trip to Finland?

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