Sound and Music

Responding to Francis Bacon’s utopian novel published in 1623, tonight’s performance focuses on a specific extract where Bacon describes the Bensalem ‘sound-houses’, which bares a startling resemblance to how we produce, realise and listen to music today. Handel House will in turn become a sound-house with each room becoming an individual performance space to be experienced in a promenade-like fashion. Expect a mix of period repertoire and contemporary electro-acoustic works alongside a new work for electronics and harpsichord from Handel House Composer-in-Residence Duncan MacLeod. With Jane Chapman. In association with the Trinity College of Music (Early Music Faculty).

Composer and curator Duncan MacLeod

Band simian-coe

Harpsichordist  Jane Chapman

Performance by Students from the Faculty of Early Music, Trinity College of Music.