Free

7 Jun 2025

Loading Bay

Ghost Weavers

The Night With...

1.30pm: Loading Bay
Immerse yourself in a multilayered sound experience infused with folk song

Weaving folk song and Bradford’s wool heritage into an immersive, multilayered sound experience, this piece was performed with an early music sensibility.

Threads of Sound was commissioned by The Night With…, written by Royal Philharmonic Society Prize–winning composer and singer Stef Conner and is performed by Ensemble 1604.

Genre: Classical contemporary

About this event

All events across New Music Biennial 2025 were free.

Events included two performances of the same work and a short interview with the creative team in between the two. This enabled 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 came 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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