Sound Unwrapped – autumn season

This autumn there’s a dazzling range of both new and newly-imagined work, plus legendary artists and long-form evenings. In the classical programme, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers finally come to Hall One, Voces8 present Ligeti’s cosmic Lux Aeterna, and Aurora Orchestra perform Anna Meredith’s time-bending Anno with the composer, and the ethereal In the Light of Air by Anna Thorvaldsdottir newly-spatialised in Hall Two.

In contemporary, there are world premieres from Gavin Bryars and the legendary Éliane Radigue, whose forensic exploration of timbre is only trusted to a handful of musicians, including Rhodri and Angharad Davies. Japanese Minimalist icon Midori Takada will improvise a sound-track to early Japanese film and Artist in Residence Hannah Peel presents a live version of BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks.

The brand new Luminate festival features ground-breaking artists Colleen, Ellen Arkbro, Daniel Blumberg and a host of new immersive Soundscape shows from Theon Cross, Dawuna, Voice Actor, aya and felicita, plus an installation from Space Afrika.

EFG London Jazz Festival includes a new spatialised presentation from Yazz Ahmed and friends, and we welcome the incomparable sound artist Beatrice Dillon. Composer-producer Shiva Feshareki collaborates with pianist Zubin Kanga and, to end the season, guitarist Sean Shibe in the epic Seismic Orchestral Wave.