Aldeburgh Music

EXAUDI · James Weeks director
Bill Thompson sound artist
with students from the University of East Anglia

A promenade performance, to include Cage Song Books

‘musIcircus/maNy/Things going on/at thE same time/a theatRe of differences together/not a single Plan/just a spacE of time/aNd/as many pEople as are willing/performing in The same place…’

The Hoffmann Building could have been built for John Cage’s vision of a ‘Musicircus’, an anarchic harmony of different musics all brought under one big top and blending together into a joyous sonic mess. To celebrate the centenary of 20th-century music’s greatest iconoclast, a plethora of Festival artists and others fling open the doors and let the sound stream out. As the centre-piece of this promenade event, EXAUDI teams up with sound artist Bill Thompson and students from UEA to present its critically-acclaimed version of Cage’s seminal Song Books (1970).

With support from Anthony Mackintosh

Developed during a Faster Than Sound:LAB project

Faster Than Sound:LAB receives generous support from

Faster Than Sound is generously supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation