Performances
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IF Festival Stream
IICSI’s 7th annual Improvisation Festival (IF) will run in collaboration with Sonorities Festival Belfast 2026, broadcast on the Sonorities homepage throughout the festival. A schedule and programme notes will be added to this page before the start of the festival....
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ADrift
ADrift is an audio-visual, environmental sound art performance. It features a long-form, site-specific, livestreamed, sub-aquatic audio broadcast using hydrophones deployed from an open canoe drifting down the River Lagan through Belfast. This live soundtrack will provide the underscore for a...
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Rrose
Rrose will perform a concert of music developed specially for the Sonic Lab at SARC.
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Adjunct Ensemble + Bill Orcutt
Adjunct Ensemble Composer and producer Jamie Thompson‘s Adjunct Ensemble is a band with two critically acclaimed releases to its name; 2023’s ‘Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy’ (Diatribe Records), a hugely expansive anti-opera of jazz-punk, turntablism, spoken word, and glitching electronics;...
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Immersive Concert 1
The programming for the two Sonic Lab Immersive concerts reflects recent upgrades to the Lab’s spatial system. Nine pieces are programmed across two concerts, including multichannel fixed media, live electronics and mixed instrumental and electronic works featuring Kyle Hutchins and...
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BAILE/home
Where is home? For millions of displaced people, this question is becoming increasingly difficult to answer. Home can be a place of nurture, safety, and ancestral roots, or a place of oppression, lack of opportunity, and loss. Homes can be...
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Climate | Sound | Action 1
For the Climate | Sound | Action series co-produced by Sonorities and Reach’26 Arts and Sustainability Festival, we have programmed works that explore or respond to environmental challenges, align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or propose new, sustainable approaches...
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RÓIS + Brìghde Chaimbeul
RÓIS is a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and electronic artist from Fermanagh, whose songs breathe new life into a forgotten Ireland. Her 2024 release MO LÉAN has swept the board winning the 2025 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards: Best Emerging Artist...
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Night Spells
This late-night solo piano programme is a reflection on the works and influences of Morton Feldman. Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble’s Daniel Browell performs works spanning Feldman’s career, including those inspired by visual patterns and artists of the time. During the...
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Immersive Concert 2
The programming for the two Sonic Lab Immersive concerts reflects recent upgrades to the Lab’s spatial system. Nine pieces are programmed across two concerts, including multichannel fixed media, live electronics and mixed instrumental and electronic works. All works are adapted...
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Climate | Sound | Action 2
For the Climate | Sound | Action series co-produced by Sonorities and Reach’26 Arts and Sustainability Festival, we have programmed works that explore or respond to environmental challenges, align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or propose new, sustainable approaches to artistic...
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Robocobra Quartet
Robocobra Quartet are a musical collective from Ireland. Formed at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, they blend art-rock, improvisation and spoken word to create a concoction that has brought them to Montreux Jazz Festival, Glastonbury and as far...
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Handmade Music
Handmade Music at Accidental Theatre returns to Sonorities with a special extended edition, featuring a roving sound installation and ten live acts, headlined by nomadic father/daughter duo Yeah You (aka Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi). A big element of Handmade...
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TAC(I)ET - implied silence
Performance starts at 11:30am. The instruments will be available for audience interaction from 12-1pm. This is a performance version of the sound installation by the same name that will be running Wed-Fri in SARC. A sound installation which will include...
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Ghost Trance Music
This concert and tribute to Anthony Braxton features graphic scores, also including those by Sarah Watts and Ioana Petcu Colan, based on her artwork ‘Kanon à 4’, created from previously-played violin bow hair, on a quadriptych of prepared panels to...
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LEZU
Two short performances coinciding with the LEZU installation running all day on Saturday as part of SARC Installations. LEZU transforms the Armenian alphabet into a multisensory performance of sound and visuals. Using two custom-built controllers, one with sliders and buttons...
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Adam Pultz Melbye + Sabine Vogel
Adam Pultz Melbye: On the Learning of Parrots and Humans The Spectral Parrot is a self-(de/re)tuning string instrument that uses machine learning to mimic to its sonic environment. In this performance, Adam Pultz—double bass player and creator of the Spectral...
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أحمد [Ahmed]
أحمد [Ahmed] is: PAT THOMAS / piano ANTONIN GERBAL / drums JOEL GRIP / bass SEYMOUR WRIGHT / alto saxophone This is music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep into an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its...