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Latest news about the activities of the Raise Your Voice Collective.

Raise Your Voice Awarded Funding by FutureEverything

FutureEverything LogoWe are delighted to be able to announce that our next event will take place as part of the FutureEverything Festival Showcase, 12-15 May 2010. For the past 15 years, FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic) has curated an internationally renowned festival of art, music and ideas in Manchester. During the festival, the Showcase presents a programme of independently run music and art events across the city, promoting new and ground-breaking talent.

As part of the Showcase a limited number of events are awarded funding assessed by a jury of industry experts and we are honoured to be among this year’s recipients. The money will help us realise the event and also ensure that we can continue to develop in exciting directions. FutureEverything will also welcome us into their community of creative people, providing us with support and advice as we grow.

Following on from our successful launch last weekend this is great news, hopefully helping us sustain the quality and enthusiasm we aspire to.

Final Rehearsals for the Raise Your Voice Ensemble

That’s it. Today saw the final rehearsal before Sunday night’s Raise Your Voice Ensemble début gig. The fantastic programme of new Mancunian music is sounding great and everyone at Raise Your Voice is really excited. We hope to see you at Centro Bar on Sunday night to share in our excitement and enthusiasm!

Here’s a photo from Monday’s rehearsal of Richard Scott with the Raise Your Voice Ensemble. Richard is using a unique system built from a Buchla Lightning II infra-red MIDI controller and two Nintendo Wii remotes coupled to software by STEIM, a music technology research and development centre in Amsterdam, to manipulate sample recordings of our ensemble as part of a directed improvisation.

Richard Scott rehearsing with the Raise Your Voice Ensemble for Sunday's gig.

Promo Video

Check out this promo video for our first night on Sunday 28th February @ Centro Bar, Northern Quarter, Manchester, UK. Steve Pycroft put this together with some footage of our first rehearsal.