Fanfares at firstsite

 

firstsite and Colchester New Music have collaborated to create a series of new fanfares to celebrate firstsite’s new building.

The new compositions will sound throughout firstsite’s building from Thursday 15 December to Saturday 31 December, between 11am – 7pm, everyday on each hour.

Julia Usher and Stuart Russell of Colchester New Music said: “We proposed a project which would celebrate firstsite’s new building; we were inspired by the building as it provides a fabulous space for listening and playing new music compositions.”

“We called-out for musicians in mid November to create scores for either brass or electroacoustic fanfares. A tremendous response was whittled down by a selection panel to eight brass and eight electroacoustic compositions.”

The two-minute fanfares will be sounded in firstsite every hour over the whole Christmas and New Year period.

Local musicians Bespoke Brass will play the brass compositions live throughout the day on Saturday 17 December, from 10am.  There will also be activities for children and families over this weekend in an event called Fanfare Fun Fair, where artist Rory Pilgrim will respond to the music by encouraging visitors to move, draw or create inspired by the contemporary music.

Entry to firstsite is FREE, so why not pop in and listen out on the hour for the new fanfares.

Drop in on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December for Fanfare Fun Fair, an entirely FREE event for families with children of all ages, and catch the live fanfare performances while you’re here!