British Electroacoustic Competition Call for Works Winners Announced! In May we launched a call for works in order to find a selection of pieces to represent Great Britain at the forthcoming CIME General Assembly Meeting as a part of MUSICACOUSTICA-Hangzhou. With a staggering 49 submissions, the four jurors (Diana Salazar, Adam Stanovic, James Andean, and…
Keep readingA month ago, the British ElectroAcoustic Network collaborated in the production of two days of concerts produced by GARS ELECTRONICA and O.A.D.E.M. – Ode an die Elektroakustische Musik – Austria. The concerts were beautifully curated by Louise Rossiter – a BEAN committee member – who programmed seven mini-concerts featuring works by various British composers, including:…
Keep readingUpdate: Back from the wilderness… Hello to all our lovely BEAN members! It has been a long period of radio silence from us, for which we apologise – but what a long strange few years it has been: nationally, internationally, professionally, and personally. But, that’s all behind us now; time to look towards the future!…
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Free | Brimingham | Deadline: 21 September 2026
Wildness is often understood as that which escapes control. It may be found in untamed landscapes or hidden within urban infrastructure; in systems that exceed their creators’ intentions; in collective action and acts of creative disruption; in unruly behaviours and emergent forms of life. Yet in an increasingly managed and mediated world, what does it mean to remain wild? What happens when sound is allowed to escape established categories, hierarchies, disciplines, technologies, and modes of listening? How can we rewild our music?
BEAST invites artists, composers, performers, technologists, researchers, and creative practitioners to explore wildness in all its sonic ferality. We welcome works that engage with ecological complexity, non-human worlds, undomesticated technologies, improvisation, uncertainty, resistance, transformation, and evolution.
Just bring a thing and bang or twang it in a group setting – no drama, its not the Royal Albert.
Scratch Orchestra – no musical ability needed. Dont overthink, just bring your voice, bring a kazoo, bring a balloon, doesnt matter. Eventually through a symbiosis of innate rythym something magical – or truly awful sounding – will happen. Yeay!
Simone Einfalt and Ralph Hoyte’s collaboration The Three Waters is an experiment in using interactive sound and moving image to respond to the liminal salt marsh environment of Steart Marshes. The Three Waters are Salt, Brackish and Fresh, with each Water becoming a character in its own right, representing the ever changing habitats. Visitors are invited to book in for one of the collective sound experiences mediated by linked autonomous speaker units on the marsh itself, and are also invited to visit the upcoming unique audio-visual gallery installations at East Quay and Bridgwater Art Centre between December 2026 – February 2027.
Please note – we will be working outside on the nature reserve, so dress accordingly, sturdy shoes are recommended. All materials are provided for the event.
Where to meet: Meet at the roundhouse, WWT Steart Marshes, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5 2PU. (Ask a member of staff for directions).
*UK members include anybody currently living/working/studying in the UK, or British Citizens working abroad.
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