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Immix Ensemble - 2016 Collaborative Event Series
Immix is a new music ensemble who focus on collaborations with innovative musical voices from across the UK with a focus on artists from the North West and beyond. Drawing on the talents of some of the country’s finest instrumentalists, Immix exists as a vehicle to champion the work of forward thinking composers, songwriters, bands and electronic artists, and to cast a spotlight on emerging talent, with an emphasis on artists whose work slips between the cracks of style and genre.
Immix’s first season centered around a series of commissions to local musicians, intended to promote collaboration across the wider spectrum of the musical community. Each concert features the work of a classically trained composer alongside that of a boundary-pushing songwriter, band or sound artist, with the aim of bringing together like-minded musicians and sowing seeds for future collaborations.
Immix’s second season serves to expand upon the ideas explored within the first season, working with artists traditionally less likely to directly collaborate with an instrumental ensemble. This season is underway, with three remaining commissions to be held in 2016, with Andrew Hunt (Dialect) & James Canty, Jeff Young & Paul McGee, and Ex-Easter Island Head.
Immix has previously collaborated with the following artists (in reverse chronological order):
Stealing Sheep
Bill Ryder-Jones
John McGrath
Lucy Pankhurst
Daniel Thorne
Vessel
Rachel Nicholas
Tom Cowcher
Joe Hillyard
Ex-Easter Island Head