BIRMINGHAM.- The internationally-renowned artist Haroon Mirza is premiering an innovative immersive music experience with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Re-creation is a sound installation and performance, complete with light, scent, smoke rings and live musicians, which the audience experiences by moving through the space. The effect is a full-body sensory experience – and a world away from the usual concert-going norm.

Everyday low-end technology, such as light bulbs and used turntables, have been reworked by Haroon to make his sculptures; and his new ‘Dream machine’ is produced by colourfully enhanced simple LED light-tubes. As they switch on-and-off they also create new sounds, rich in musicality and fascinating to watch.

Haroon is collaborating with composer Lucy Armstrong and singer Juliet Fraser to make this one-off, singular performance.

Stephan Meier, BCMG Artistic Director, explains: “Artist and performers are working together without a director or conductor, drawing on disciplines including sculpture and music, to create a new performance. Our audiences are invited to discover a new dimension of what a concert hall performance can be and experience new commissions by composer Lucy Armstrong, soprano Juliet Fraser and Mirza himself.”

Haroon Mirza (b.1977, London) has won international acclaim for installations that work with sound, light and electric current. His work Stone Circle (2018) in the desert near Marfa, Texas, is a series of giant speakers that appear to look like the megaliths of a pre-historic stone circle. Powered by solar electricity, they come to life on the full moon and create a rhythmic, pulsating sound, reminiscent of ancient ritual.

Haroon has also recently enjoyed solo exhibitions at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery (2018) and at the Lisson Gallery in London (2023) and New York (2024) amongst many others.

·Re-creation is a brand new, immersive music experience created by Haroon Mirza, Juliet Fraser, Lucy Armstrong and BCMG

·A sound and light installation which the audience travels through, this is a world away from the usual concert-going experience

·Haroon Mirza is a world-renowned artist who has recently exhibited at Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Lisson Gallery (London & New York) & Marfa (Texas)

LISTINGS INFORMATION:

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group present RE_CREATION
Sunday 28 January 2024, 4:30pm
CBSO Centre, Birmingham