Forest Swords and Immix Ensemble commissioned by Metal: New Music Biennial

What will music become in our rapidly changing cities? A new commission created by Merseyside’s Forest Swords and Immix Ensemble investigates. Commissioned by Metal.

In Trespassing, electronic producer and artist Forest Swords, aka Matthew Barnes, develops a speculative future landscape based on conversations with experts in the fields of architecture, technology and social history.

Join us for the world premiere of Barnes’ first commission for ensemble, working with Erased Tapes signees Immix Ensemble.

Since the release of his two celebrated albums, Engravings and Compassion, Barnes has collaborated with Massive Attack and Young Fathers, remixed Bjork, and was a recent curator in the DJ-Kicks compilation series.

He has also explored multidisciplinary work in the form of Shrine, a contemporary dance commission.

Immix Ensemble formed in 2014, as part of a Metal  Time and Space residency, to join up the conversation between the classical and pop music voices within the city. They are now in their third series of unique, collaborative performances.

Signed to acclaimed label Erased Tapes, Immix have developed and presented over 20 new works, working with artists across boundaries, from the leftfield pop songwriting of Jane Weaver, Stealing Sheep and Kelly Lee Owens, to artists at the forefront of the British experimental community such as Vessel, Luke Abbott and Ex-Easter Island Head.

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