Gulbenkian Arts Centre is delighted to be working with Associate Artist Matthew Herbert and The Radiophonic Institute on a series of events across our season.

Through a series of collaborative workshops held at Gulbenkian, Matthew will be creating a completely new musical instrument, devising a new audio play from scratch, and then turning that play into a physical book.

Matthew Herbert, Metta Shiba and Theon Cross

Henry Dagg and Evan Parker

Throughout the day, alumni of the esteemed Oram Awards (awards for women and gender minority artists working in electronic sound and music) will lead an open workshop where together with attendees they will design and build an experimental musical instrument that can generate 100 new sounds to be used in that evening’s concert.

2.30pm

Panel session plus a Q & A from renowned instrument makers Henry Dagg, Eva Justka and Hugh Jones. Where they will talk about their techniques and experiences making unusual musical instruments.

8pm

Henry Dagg and Evan Parker will launch their new album: Then Through Now.

Matthew Herbert, Metta Shiba, Alabaster de Plume, Coby Sey and Theon Cross (Sons of Kemet) will perform a new show using as the basis the brand new musical instrument made earlier in the day.

When: Sat 7 Oct, 8pm

Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall

Tickets: £16 (£10 Student)

Matthew Herbert, with Kirsty Housely, Chloe Lamford, Ella Kay and Imogen Knight

When: Sat 25 Nov, 8pm

Venue: Gulbenkian Theatre

Tickets: £16 (£10 Student)

Building on the stories and 100 sounds captured at the first event on October 7th Matthew Herbert will be joined by Kirsty Housely - dramaturg and co-director of Complicité’s The Encounter - to create a staged audio play. They will be joined by fellow theatre makers, creatives and actors to devise, create, rehearse and stage a brand new audio play in the Gulbenkian Arts Centre.

2.30pm

Tickets are available to observe and potentially join in with the creative session.

8pm

Live performance of the new audio play.

Matthew Herbert and Max Porter