Joseph Houston | Felicity Mangan

Joseph Houston plays Bryn Harrison's Vessels for solo piano

Felicity Mangan, solo electronics set

Joseph Houston's is a pianist and composer who is particularly interested in works that reassess the traditional composer-performer-listener triangle; make use of alternative keyboard instruments (synths, harmonium, harpsichord etc.); and intensely explore the sonic capabilities of the piano.

Felicity Mangan is a sound artist and composer. In different situations such as solo performances, site-specific, or collaborative interdisciplinary projects, Felicity samples and plays her field recording archive and found sounds to create quasi-bioacoustic music.

Bryn Harrison has a long-held fascination with notions of musical time. Many of his works such as Surface Forms (repeating) (2009) operate at a speed and density that cannot be easily or immediately apprehended; they gradually draw the listener into an experience of the passage of time. More recently, he has continued to work with cyclical structures in a series of compositions of long duration that includes the 45-minute ensemble works Repetitions in Extended Time (2008) and Receiving the Approaching Memory (2014), and the 76-minute solo piano piece Vessels (2013).