Sam Salem + Megan Steinberg + CHAINES + Stuart McCallum

Fusing electronics and acoustic instruments, expect a compelling listener experience from four powerhouse artists expanding the horizons of new music and mixed media as part of Made in Manchester - a three-day festival celebrating the amazing breadth of new music created at the RNCM by staff and students, past and present.

Sam Salem’s creative output challenges traditional ideas of concert presentations through a synthesis of electronic music and digital animation techniques with THIS IS FINE being no exception to his uncanny aesthetic.

Being an abstract turntablist is at the centre of Megan Steinberg’s work. Fascinated by space, silence and architecture’s both direct and indirect control over sound, Megan studies instruments, spaces and objects to draw on and out their unique sound qualities.

CHAINES (Cee Haines) knows no boundaries when it comes to writing surreal fantastical electronica and electro-acoustic music. Performances of their work have been called ‘a mesmeric collage of ecclesiastical beauty and creeping dread’ by the Guardian.

Finally, Stuart McCallum merges his jazz beginnings with alt-folk and electronica in a powerful solo improvisation on electric guitar.

In an evening unmatched in intrigue and ingenuity, allow yourself to enter a ground-breaking sound world of contemporary electronic music.

Sam Salem - THIS IS FINE for cello and fixed media
Megan Steinberg - New work for percussion and electronics
CHAINES - New work
Stuart McCallum - New improvisation

Alice Purton cello
Katie Thomas percussion
Cee Haines electronics