YARMONICS returns in September featuring performances, workshops and screenings.

A scaled down (no ACE funding this year, boo) but nevertheless rich programme of events featuring:

Micro-residencies from Gijs Gieskes and Rhys Morgan’s Seaweed in the Fruitlocker, each giving a performance on Saturday 20th. Alongside site specific performances from Tam Lin, Meat Strap and Roberto Ekholm, with more TBA.

Joanna Holland will be presenting new work, ‘Reverie’ at Great Yarmouth Town Hall on Friday 19th. Also on the Friday we will host a workshop with Zach Dansen to build one of Theo Jansen’s iconic Strandbeests.

On Sunday 21st there will be a Strandbeest film screening, and if the conditions are favourable, a promenade of the Strandbeest on the beach.

You can get a tickets for performances and workshops here. Details, timings and ticket links for workshops will be shared here soon!

Thanks to support from @aceagrams Norfolk County Council and the Ranworth Trust, we have been able to commission three new exciting artist residencies.

Over the next 12 months Mariam Rezaei, Nwando Ebizie and Shortwave Collective will spend time in Great Yarmouth, working with local people and community groups to create three new works.

On the 21st September the residency artists will present work in progress or in concept alongside a collection of sound artists and experimental music makers.

Site specific performance, installation, exhibition and workshops. All free to attend but tickets required.

We’re thrilled to develop new partnerships with #FENWOMEN, @red_herring_press and @possible.worlds - who have designed and built us a beautiful new website and identity.

More news and announcements will trickle through in the coming weeks, alongside parts of the website including our interactive sound map and sound archive, so keep your eyes peeled and ears open.

2023 is a fallow year for YARMONICS whilst we rest and plan for something big in 2024.

We have programmed a stage for Natural England as part of a celebration of the completion of the Norfolk Coast Path. You will find us in the amphitheatre behind the Marina Centre at the following times:

10:30 - 11:00 The Happy Couple (bucolic pastoral acoustic music, inspired by the Broads)

11:30 - 12:00 Chris Dowding (solo trumpet and electronics)

13:00 - 13:30 Mike Page drop in workshop (using beachcombed rubbish to house electronic noise makers)

15:30 - 16:00 Dee Byrne (solo saxophone and electronics)

You can also revisit many previous performances by browsing our Soundcloud page here. Go a step further by listening to the recordings at the original locations with our interactive sound map here.

We’re also really keen for people to send us their recordings from in and around Great Yarmouth. You can send us anything you like (no specific length, content, file format - we recommend just using your voice memos app on your phone). Recordings are uploaded to an open archive at Freesound.org. Simply email us the recording (or a WeTransfer link if it’s too large) to yarmonicssounds@gmail.com.

Here is a short video summary of YARMONICS 2022, taken by Mark Cator.

Thanks to funding from Great Yarmouth Tourism and Business Improvement Area, we have been able to develop an interactive sound map of many performances from 2018 and 2021 festivals.

Visit the map via the menu link on the homepage or directly via the link below.

Yarmonics sound map.

We’re are hugely grateful to Ed Perkins in developing the map, and to Charlie Crampton, Daniel Mothers, Martin Scaiff and Stuart Bowditch for making the recordings.

We're very pleased to share the fourth episode in our series 'Ear of the Edgeland', featuring poet, Ruthie Collins and musician and printmaker, Tazelaar Stevenson; 'Albionsound'.

This podcast was supported by Natural Wonder, a project founded by Ruthie Collins to explore and celebrate our connection to the natural world.

For this episode Ruthie and Taz took a walk through Burgh Castle before finding a quiet spot overlooking Breydon Water. In response to this conversation, alongside his deep connection with the natural world - and specifically bird life - Taz created some recorded music for the podcast, which he then adapted to perform at this years Yarmonics.

https://soundcloud.com/easternear/ear-of-the-edgeland-ep4-albionsound

YARMONICS 2021 will take place on 25th & 26th September in various locations across Great Yarmouth.

As part of our commission of Metrono /Funny Object by Pedro Cassimo and Will Hurt, we are looking for people to respond to the video with sound and music.

The call out is open to anyone, full details can be found here.