Image Gallery: Sounds New 2014 Day Seven

Live poetry and music as part of Free Range at Mrs Jones’ Kitchen in the heart of Canterbury: images from day seven of the festival.

Images (c) Sounds New / Peter Cook

Image Gallery: Day Six

The Brodsky Quartet and singer Elaine Mitchener in rehearsal for the Robert Wyatt Project at the University of Kent’s Colyer-Fergusson Hall, and saxophonist John Harle with pianist Steve Lodder in performance at St Gregory’s Centre, on Day Six of the festival.

 

Images © Sounds New / Peter Cook

Image Gallery: Sounds New 2014 Day Five

Music, dance and projection; bringing a lost Murnau film to life; music and poetry; images from day five of Sounds New 2014.

Images © Sounds New / Peter Cook

Sounds New Poetry 2014: Flickr Gallery

The Sounds New Poetry strand of this year’s festival has been thriving; poets responding to venues around the city of Canterbury; public readings in historic spaces; residencies at the Beaney; poetry meeting live music in a city café, and poetry read from halfway up a wall.

Intrigued ? Visit the gallery of images from Sounds New Poetry, part of Sounds New 2014 online here.

Images: © University of Kent English department

Image Gallery: Sounds New 2014 Day Four

The London Sinfonietta, violinist Thomas Gould and composer Johannes Kreidler on day four of the festival.

Images: (c) Sounds New / Peter Cook

Image Gallery: Sounds New 2014 Day Three

Organ-meets electronics: choral music from Tallis to Claudia Molitor; jazz-rock; improvised-sax-meets-electronics; day three of Sounds New 2014.

 

Images:© Sounds New / Peter Cook

Image Gallery: Sounds New 2014 Day Two

Icebreaker Ensemble and BJ Cole at the Colyer-Fergusson Hall performing on Day Two of Sounds New 2014.

Images: © Sounds New

A thousand words: Sounds New’s Pinterest board

With this year’s festival in full swing, we’ll be posting photos from the events throughout this week to our online Pinterest board.

A crop of them have been put up already; the launch night, the opening of Curious Curator at the Palette Gallery, live gigs, poetry readings and more.

Visit our digital pinboard for photos throughout the festival.

Image Gallery: Sounds New 2014 launch

With live music, a sound installation, exhibition, dance, free jazz, poetry and some mesmerising improvisation-meets-electronics, Sounds New 2014 officially launched last night at the Sidney Cooper Gallery and Mrs Jones’ Kitchen in the heart of Canterbury.

Festival Artistic Director, Matt Wright, introduces the festival

Sounds New Chair, Peter Bolton, addresses the gathering

Matt Wright (l), sound-artist Janek Schaefer

Matt Wright, Willie Cooper (Festival Administrator), Peter Bolton

Janek Schaefer

Poetry-reading at Mrs Jones’ Kitchen from Sounds New Poets

Improvised music and dance on the streets of Canterbury

Trance Map live at Mrs Jones’ Kitchen: Matt Wright (electronics), Evan Parker (sax)

Images © Sounds New / Peter Cook

Image Gallery: All for One

As part of Sounds New’s educational mission, the popular All for One series of concerts for schools and families ran again last month at St Peter’s Methodist Church, Canterbury.

Pictured are pupils from St Peter’s Methodist School and St Stephen’s Junior School, working with Phil Wright from the Philharmonia on pieces including Paul Burnell’s Aim Straight for Starlight.

Images © Sounds New / Peter Cook (used with permission)