Events
Upcoming
Live Performance
Playing alongside Dialect and Another Country, at Metal in Edge Hill station. Raising money for 2 grassroots orgs: Madad & Trans Enby FC.
Info & Tickets
Residency
Two week resdiency at Maajaam in Estonia, working on an audio-visual work using my Estonian Grandfather’s Oral History and his old camcorder footage.
Residency
I have been invited to spend two weeks at Elektronmusikstudion EMS - Sweden’s center for electroacoustic music and sound art. I will be working with material gathered during my time in Estonia, working with EMS’ spatial studios to finish the work.
Past
Live
Live performance at MANTIS Festival, on their 56-speaker system - free, first come first served.Info
Residency
From Feb-May ‘25, I will be artist in residence at the University of Salford’s Acoustics Laboratories, in partnership with From The Other and the University of Salford Art Collection. This project will culminate in a new work premiering at Sounds from the Other City 2025.5th February 2025
Online
12-1pm
Online
12-1pm
Talk
Composing with Oral Histories, for the Oral History Society ‘s Creative Oral History Special Interest GroupWorkshop
Running a workshop at the Oral History Society’s Festival - leading a hands on session about how to combine oral histories with field recordings and music composition.Info & Tickets
Live (Hayley & Lili)
We will be performing on the University of Hull’s multichannel HEARO system - after a residency in their ambisonic studio. Our live performance has been adapted for real-time ambisonic mixing.Info & Tickets
Live (Hayley & Lili)
We will be bringing our dark and swirling soundscapes, constructed from processed cello, clarinet, guitar, electronics, and vocals, to Dewsbury - for a concert produced by Yorkshire Sound Women Network.Info & Tickets
Live (Hayley & Lili)
We will be playing our new piece Womb at MANTIS Festival, adapted for ambisonics for playback on the 50-speaker surround sound festival set-up. Womb is a semi-improvised piece for shruti box, cello, clarinet, and electronics – crafted during a residency this summer at Sage Gateshead in Newcastle.Info & Tickets
Live
Supporting Manchester Collective’s LAD, featuring violinist Rakhi Singh and guitarist Alan Keary (aka Shunya)Info & Tickets
Live
Playing a live set at Islington Mill as part of Fat Out Fest 2023, a festival of new experimental music and art from the queer underground, held at Islington Mill.Info & Tickets
Residency (Hayley & Lili)
A week-long residency at Sage Gateshead’s Summer Studios - Hayley Suviste and Lili-Holland Fricke will spend the week making music for their upcoming EP, which is comprised of dark and swirling soundscapes, constructed from processed cello, clarinet, guitar, electronics, and vocals.Full details: here
Live (Vulgia Collaborative)
A concert tour across Europe of improvisation-based performances in collaboration with a variety of local musicians and visual artists. For this show, Néfur (Laura Guarch) will be joined by Manchester-based sound artists Hayley Suviste and Ryan Woods, to create an unique immersive performance, inspired by the musical material of Guarch's most recent release, Vulgia [vulnerable and wild] - featuring processed field recordings, vocals, clarinet, violin, pedals, and synthesisers.Info & Tickets
Sen-sing Workshop
Join The Manchester Ear and Bothy for a unique singing workshop led by Néfur (Laura Guarch), a renowned Catalan vocalist, composer, and field recordist, at the tranquil Hulme Community Garden Centre.
This workshop invites you to explore embodied listening and engage in guided group vocal improvisations with captivating field recordings. Through this sonic collaboration with the more-than-human world, the human voice becomes one among many voices in the natural world's biophony.
This Manchester edition of the ‘Sen-sing’ workshop is presented by The Manchester Ear and BOTHY.
Info & Tickets
Join The Manchester Ear and Bothy for a unique singing workshop led by Néfur (Laura Guarch), a renowned Catalan vocalist, composer, and field recordist, at the tranquil Hulme Community Garden Centre.
This workshop invites you to explore embodied listening and engage in guided group vocal improvisations with captivating field recordings. Through this sonic collaboration with the more-than-human world, the human voice becomes one among many voices in the natural world's biophony.
This Manchester edition of the ‘Sen-sing’ workshop is presented by The Manchester Ear and BOTHY.
Info & Tickets
The Manchester Ear Sound Walk - Ryebank Fields
This event is a perfect opportunity for anyone seeking a mindful start to their Sunday and a chance to connect with nature by immersing themselves in the breathtaking beauty and sounds of the blooming wildlife in this serene wild space.
Info & Tickets
This event is a perfect opportunity for anyone seeking a mindful start to their Sunday and a chance to connect with nature by immersing themselves in the breathtaking beauty and sounds of the blooming wildlife in this serene wild space.
Info & Tickets
Navvies Lightwaves Installation
An art installation by Matthew Rosier and featuring music by Hayley Suviste with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, commemorating the labour of the 17,000 navvies who dug the Manchester Ship Canal, opening as part of Lightwaves Festival 2022 (1st – 10th December 2022) at Salford Quays.
For more details of this work, visit: www.salfordnavvies.co.uk
An art installation by Matthew Rosier and featuring music by Hayley Suviste with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, commemorating the labour of the 17,000 navvies who dug the Manchester Ship Canal, opening as part of Lightwaves Festival 2022 (1st – 10th December 2022) at Salford Quays.
For more details of this work, visit: www.salfordnavvies.co.uk
Live
I'll be performing my solo live set at Tor Fest, alonsgide artists including Richard Dawson, Holy Scum, Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh, and Elaine Howley.Info & Tickets