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Encounters in the Republic of Heaven

..... all the colours of speech .....

Encounters is an 8-channel sound-surround piece based on speaking voices recorded in the North East of England where Trevor Wishart was A.C.E. Composer-in-Residence from October 1st, 2006 to September 2009, based at the University of Durham.
The piece is constructed in 4 Acts of approximately 20 minutes each, combining portraits of individual speakers (accompanied by sounds and imaginary instruments derived from the voices themselves) with computer animation of the entire community of voices - speech that waltzes, speech that locks in harmony, clouds of speech that circle the audience, culminating with speech that transforms into song. The piece was finally completed on January 1st 2011. Recordings are available.


Booklet & Stereo Remix Recordings 5p1 release on DVD


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PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES TO MID-2015
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The Complete Work Individual Acts

The Complete Work
SAGE,Gateshead London, Kings Place Cockermouth Oxford, JdP Leicester Edinburgh Liverpool Limerick
Mexico City Stockholm Den Haag Aarhus Berlin Den Haag, WFS Karlsruhe Toronto Helsinki York
Barcelona, LULLCEC York, St Johns York, Tree House Aberdeen Bangor Venice Keele Birmingham Wroclaw
UCSB Santa Barbara St Cloud, Minnesota Aveiro, Portugal Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge Sweet Thunder, San Francisco
UCSD, San Diego London, Tete a Tete Bristol, Vic Rooms Coventry Vienna Belfast, Sonorities

  • May 4   , 2011 : Gateshead, The SAGE.
  • May 12 , 2011 : Limerick, Irish Chamber Orchestra Hall.
  • May 16 , 2011 : London, Kings Place.
  • June 1,   2011 : Oxford, Jacqueline du Pres Concert Hall.
  • June 24, 2011 : Cockermouth, Eco Centre, as part of the Midsummer Festival.
  • Oct 6,     2011 : Mexico City, Auditorium Blas Galindo, Transitio_MX_04 Multimedia Festival.
  • Oct 22,   2011 : Stockholm, Audiorama : as part of the Sound of Stockholm Festival.
  • Nov 18,  2011 : The Hague, Kees van Baarenzaal, Royal Conservatory of Music.
  • Dec 8,    2011 : Aarhus, at DIEM, Royal Academy of Music.
  • Jan 18,   2012 : Leicester, PACE Auditorium, De Montfort University.
  • Feb 3,    2012 : Edinburgh, at The Atrium, University of Edinburgh.
  • Feb 7,    2012 : Liverpool, at Music Department, University of Liverpool.
  • Feb,       2012 : Berlin, private performance at the home of Folkmar Hein to celebrate his birthday.
  • May 17,  2012 : The Hague at Game of Life venue (Wavefront Synthesis [WFS] multi-loudpseaker realisation).
  • June 18, 2012 : Barcelona at LULLCEC (Wavefront Synthesis [WFS] multi-loudpseaker realisation).
  • July 7th, 2012 : Karlsruhe at IMWI (Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik).
  • Aug 14,  2012 : Toronto at Artscape Wychwood Barns as part of the NAISA Festival.
  • Sep 18,  2012 : York at the Black Box auditorium of the Film and TV school at the University.
  • Sep 24 , 2012 : Helsinki at the Black Box auditorium of the Sibelius Academy.
  • Nov 2,    2012 : Aberdeen at Cowdrey Hall as part of the Sound Festival.
  • Nov 29,  2012 : Bangor at University School of Music.
  • Dec 21,  2012 : Venice at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello.
  • Feb 13,  2013 : Keele at Lindsay Hall; University School of Music.
  • Feb 16,  2013 : Birmingham at Elgar Concert Hall; Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham.
  • Oct 5,    2013 : York at University of York St John, as part of the Resonance event.
  • Oct 22,  2013 : York at The Tree House; Berrick Saul Building, at University of York.
  • Oct 23,  2013 : Wroclaw at Musica Electronica Nova, presented by Annette Vande Gorne.
  • Nov 9,    2013 : Santa Barbara at UCSB, with videophone-link responses to the the composer in the UK.
  • Dec 6,   2013 : St Cloud State University, Minnesota with videophone-link responses to the the composer in the UK.
  • Mar 27,  2014 : Aveiro University, Portugal.
  • Apr 10,  2014 : Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
  • Apr 25,  2014 : San Francisco at Sweet Thunder Festival, presented by Tom Erbe.
  • May 24, 2014 : UCSD, San Diego in the Friday Listening Room series.
  • Aug 7-8,2014 : London, at the Tete a Tete Festival, King's Place London.
  • Oct 10,  2014 : Bristol, lunchtime concert at the Vic Rooms.
  • Oct 18,  2014 : Coventry, evening concert at the Ellen Terry Building, University of Coventry.
  • Nov 15,  2014: Vienna, two performances at the Alte Schmiede, as part of the Wien Moderne Festival.
  • Apr 26,   2015: Belfast, performance at the Sonic Lab, as part of the Sonorities Festival.

    Performances of Individual Acts
    Berlin, Elizabethkirke Birmingham Oxford Köln Bergen Freiburg Paris Barcelona, MACBA
    Stavanger Karlsruhe Lisbon Berlin, BKA Manchester Leeds

  • July 31, 2010 : Act 1 premiered in the Elizabethkirke, Berlin as part of the Inventionen Festival.
  • Oct 16, 2010 : Act 1 performed at the CBSO Recital Hall, Birmingham as part of the States of Play Festival.
  • Oct 21, 2010 : Act 1 performed at the Faculty of Music, Oxford University.
  • Apr 14, 2011 : Act 1 presented by Folkmar Hein in the Nocturne concert series in the Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln,
                                  (an invitation by Martin Rumori, with the support of Anthony Moore).
  • Oct 17, 2011 : Act 1 presented by Song Circus in the Bergen Kunsthall (alongside Anticredos).
  • Nov 3,   2011 : Act 1 presented at the Freiburg Musikhochschule.
  • Jan 20, 2012 : Act 1 presented in the GRM concert series at MPAA Auditorium St Germain.
  • June,    2012 : Various Barcelona: MACBA museum WFS installation from the Hague,
                                 June 14: Acts 1, 2 & 3       June 15: Acts 2, 3 & 4       June 16: Acts 2 & 3
  • Nov 18, 2012 : Act 1 presented by Song Circus at Skur2 : Stavanger (alongside Anticredos).
  • Nov 30, 2012 : Act 1 at ZKM: Karlsruhe as part of the IMATRONIC Festival.
  • Dec 11, 2013 : Act 1 as part of the Musica Viva Festival, at the Sao Luiz Theatre, Lisbon.
  • Feb 11, 2014 : Act 3 at the BKA Theater, Kreuzberg, Berlin as part of the Unerhörte Musik series.
  • Mar 2,   2014 : Act 1 & 2 at MANTIS Festival, University of Manchester.
  • Mar 12, 2015 : Act 1 at International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition, Leeds College of Music.

    As an Installation

  • 2012 : midsummer : Durham    : Botanical Gardens : Installation based on 6 of the Encounters sound portraits.


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