Free

7 Jun 2025

Moth x Human

Ellie Wilson

10.30am: Loading Bay
Experience a unique cross-species collaboration, where sonified moth activity is transformed into sound to spotlight the UK's declining biodiversity.

Event Details
Date 7 Jun 2025
Times 10.30 - 11.30am
Location Loading Bay

Violinist and composer Ellie Wilson highlights the UK’s biodiversity decline in a multi-instrumental piece that harnesses data from moths to make immersive sound.

Moth x Human is a thought-provoking composition that highlights declining UK biodiversity. Moth activity data is sonified into emotive, immersive soundscapes, alongside acoustic instruments, field recordings, and electronics.

Sonified moth activity data combines with acoustic instruments and electronics in an immersive work highlighting biodiversity decline that was written by violinist-composer Ellie Wilson.

Genre: Sound art, electro acoustic, environmental music

About this event

This New Music Biennial 2025 event is free, but ticketed. Seating is unallocated and tickets don’t guarantee entry: admission is on a first-come, first-served basis for those with tickets. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

This event includes two performances of the same work and a short interview with the creative team in between the two, enabling audiences to experience the second performance with greater insight into the creative process.

About New Music Biennial

New Music Biennial is a three-day festival celebrating the best new music across all genres from the country’s most exciting composers – and in 2025, for the first time, it’s coming to venues around Bradford.

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Presented in partnership with PRS Foundation, Southbank Centre, BBC Radio 3 and NMC Recordings, and supported by Arts Council England.

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