Free

8 Jun 2025

Nocturnal Sun

Chisara Agor

10.30am: Loading Bay
This live performance and conceptual film will take you on a journey across an arid landscape.

Event Details
Date 8 Jun 2025
Times 10.30-11.30am
Location Loading Bay
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  • BSL interpreted

Follow a people’s final journey across an arid landscape in this live performance and conceptual film from composer and multidisciplinary artist Chisara Agor.

An interdisciplinary project blending classical, electronic, jazz, avant-garde and West African traditions with poetry and storytelling, Nocturnal Sun was written by award-winning composer and multidisciplinary artist Chisara Agor.

The first movement, ‘Dust’, is a live performance with conceptual film, following a people’s final journey across an arid landscape under a dying star.

This work was developed on Sound and Music’s New Voices programme. New Voices is supported by Arts Council England and PRS Foundation. The film work was supported by MSCTY and Sound and Music’s Digital Dimensions award. This work was also supported by Britten Pears Arts as part of their residency programme at Snape Maltings, The Roundhouse and The Help Musicians Fusion Fund.

Genre: Dance classical, global, experimental

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.

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

Credits

Chisara Agor
Composer, producer, writer and performer
Robin G Breeze
Music director, bass
Tim Grabham
Direction and visualisation
Adam Elyasse/Chisara Agor
Outfits
Lizz Payne
Make up
Yolanda Y. Liou
Camera assistant and lighting

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