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.

We’re thrilled to announce that with support from Arts Council England, YARMONICS will return in September 2020.

We’ve used the lockdown to assess how we might reach new audiences and so this year instead of a series of physical workshops and performances, we will be presenting work commissioned from a range of amazing artists, shown in a virtual space.

The writing, recordings and videos will be accessible indefinitely with the intention to project and present the works in and around Great Yarmouth when it becomes practical to do so.

Full details will be shared over the summer

Recently added to the series is the third episode 'Sebaldsound', commissioned by Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery to form part of the legacy for their fantastic 'Lines of Sight' exhibition from last year.

In this episode 'Lines of Sight' curator Nick Warr talks to artist and academic Guy Moreton about the landscape, Sebald's life and work, whilst travelling on part of the journey featured in Sebald's much revered book 'The Rings of Saturn'.

The third episode in the series finds us back on the rural railways, from Norwich to Lowestoft. Commissioned by Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery 'Sebaldsound' acts as a complimentary audio piece to the 2019 exhibition 'Lines of Sight' about the artist W G Sebald. In this episode 'Lines of Sight' curator Nick Warr talks to artist and academic Guy Moreton about the landscape, Sebald's life and work, whilst travelling on part of the journey featured in Sebald's much revered book 'The Rings of Saturn'. Sebaldsound includes field recordings by Oliver Payne with 'Increasingly Absorbed In His Own World' and 'When the Dog Days Were Drawing To An End' composed by The Caretaker for his album 'Patience (After Sebald)'.