Free

6 Jun 2025

Penumbra

Outlands Network

6.15pm: Loading Bay
Explore how this musical collaboration combines, voice, video, lighting and looping in their performance.

Event Details
Date 6 Jun 2025
Times 6.15-7.15pm
Location Loading Bay
Access
  • Seating available
  • Wheelchair user access

Penumbra is an experimental work that comprises voice and double bass improvisations, looped and processed in response to a score of video and lighting elements that create an interplay between stage and screen.

Musicians Dali de Saint Paul and Maxwell Sterling and visual artists Rebecca Salvadori and Charlie Hope created Penumbra from a collaborative process during a series of shared sessions. It was originally commissioned by Outlands and presented in a number of UK art and concert spaces in the spring of 2024.

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.

Artist bios

Dali de Saint Paul is a relentless collaborator and improviser. She is the voice of searing industrial duo Harrga, the female improvising ensemble Viridian, the supergroup Ondata Rossa, and the consistent element in her project EP/64, which ran for 64 live shows, each with a different line-up, and involved over 40 musicians as well as visual artists over a six-year period.

Maxwell Sterling’s multidisciplinary output as a sound producer, composer and double bassist spans regular collaborations. His work creates points of reference between precision sound synthesis and acoustic traditions.

Charlie Hope is a London-born visual artist using light, motion, space, video, and coding to build sensorial images and environments across sound, performance and installation. His work involves crafting multi-textured environments, often through collaborations in a range of contexts.

Rebecca Salvadori is a London-based artist working at the intersection of video art and documentary who has consistently engaged with experimental music, exploring ways to connect the moving image with sound practices, live performance and alternative forms of storytelling. She is the co-founder of artist collective Tutto Questo Sentire.

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.

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