Southbank Centre

Past events

• 19 October 2012 - 20 October 2012 Chunky Move Mortal Engine is a dance-video-laser performance using movement-responsive video projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering worl...
• 16 October 2012 Danza Preparata: John Cage Rui Horta As part of Ether's celebrations of the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth, pianist Rolf Hind, one of our great interpreters of modern...
• 15 October 2012 UnCaged Soundings After their highly acclaimed, sold-out John Cage concert last year at Queen Elizabeth Hall, avantgardistas Apartment House returns with a...
• 14 October 2012 Decasia by Michael Gordon & Bill Morrison Southbank Centre's 2012 Ether Festival brings the UK premiere of Decasia, widely regarded as one of the great cross-arts collaborations o...
• 14 October 2012 Decasia: Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison in Discussion Find out about the premiere of 'Decasia' and this year's Ether Festival from Gillian Moore CBE, Southbank Centre's Head of Classical Musi...
• 13 October 2012 Mount Kimbie / Raime / Bass Clef / Ekoclef / Airhead An evening of music across two stages curated by global electronic music authority Resident Advisor. Mount Kimbie is the south-London duo...
• 13 October 2012 John Cale The founding member of one of the most defining bands of a generation, the Velvet Underground's John Cale returns to Royal Festival Hall ...
• 13 October 2012 Christian Marclay's Everyday Christian Marclay is one of the world's pre-eminent artists, winning the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennial for his work The Clock. ...
• 12 October 2012 Nick Luscombe : Flomotion presents Rough Fields and Coppe An extended Friday Tonic special for Ether Festival as BBC Radio 3 Late Junction presenter and Flomotion founder Nick Luscombe presents m...
• 11 October 2012 Wolfe: Adventures in Sound Free your ears with a night of hyper-driven soundscapes and blow your mind!Julia Wolfe's music draws influence from disparate sources, fr...
• 10 October 2012 iamamiwhoami An extraordinary internet phenomenon, iamamiwhoami plays for the first time in the UK. Her album 'kin' has been released over the course ...
• 10 October 2012 Anna Meredith + Horsebox Anna Meredith is one of the UK's most in-demand young composers. Her music is widely performed around the world and alongside her acousti...
• 9 October 2012 Tyondai Braxton and London Sinfonietta Tyondai Braxton performs Central Market with London Sinfonietta.The former guitarist, keyboardist and singer of Battles, their debut albu...
• 8 October 2012 For John Cage by Morton Feldman Celebrating John Cage's centennial year, Darragh Morgan and John Tilbury perform Feldman's late, great iconic work 'For John Cage'. They ...
• 7 October 2012 Harvey: Weltethos Hear an epic choral work, the latest masterpiece from Jonathan Harvey who is one of the world's greatest living composers.Weltethos is in...
• 7 October 2012 Harmonic Series: Jonathan Harvey A new season of Harmonic Series begins with a concert conceived as a meditation on Jonathan Harvey's greatest intimate and electro-acoust...
• 7 October 2012 The Radiophonic Workshop In Public A day of talks, open sessions and events based around the work of the New Radiophonic Workshop, relaunched this summer as part of thespac...
• 6 October 2012 Apparat Following sell-out shows across the world, Apparat Band come to Ether having released three very well received electronic albums on Germa...
• 6 October 2012 Ghostpoet and Soap & Skin This Ether double bill features two of Europe's fastest rising producers.Ghostpoet's 2011 Mercury-prize nominated record 'Peanut Butter B...
• 6 October 2012 ESKA'S Big Sing Be part of this unique Voicelab opportunity to sing with one of the UK's most compelling artists, ESKA.Listen to ESKA talk about the Big ...
• 5 October 2012 The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble Join the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble for a night of dance grooves performed live by a large band.German trio Brandt Brauer Frick's debut...
• 5 October 2012 The Lund Quartet Already making radio waves from Gilles Peterson on Radio 1 to Radio 3's 'Late Junction', Lund Quartet are taking their sound to a wider w...
• 5 October 2012 Busnoys While taking its name from a 15th century Burgundian composer, Busnoys is very much a 21st century jazz group, which draws inspiration no...
• 28 April 2011 The Passion of Joan of Arc One of the early cinema classics, Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) has been hailed a towering masterpiece of silen...
• 23 April 2011 Rites: Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring Digital artist Klaus Obermaier and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra create a 21st-century realisation of Stravinsky's masterpiec...
• 14 April 2011 Scene & Heard: Music in a Visual Culture Music promoters, programmers and producers join with gallery curators and artists for a day of talks and discussions to consider the blur...
• 8 April 2011 Nick Luscombe Presents: The Simonsound The second of two special editions of Friday Tonic for Ether festival, curated by DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe (BBC Radio 3 Late Junc...
• 8 April 2011 Mirror Mirror is a bold and engaging new ensemble interpreting and reworking the compositions of keyboardist Dan Nicholls. Featuring the distinc...
• 6 April 2011 Tim Exile Interactive music pioneer Tim Exile improvises an entire show of music using sounds contributed by you during Ether. Straddling the borde...
• 5 April 2011 Micachu and the Shapes and London Sinfonietta Rising stars of experimental pop Micachu and the Shapes collaborate once again with the London Sinfonietta for Chopped and Screwed, first...
• 4 April 2011 Britten Sinfonia Late - The Goldberg Experiment Icelandic producer and Björk collaborator Valgeir Sigurðsson joins violinist Thomas Gould, jazz musician Andy Sheppard and friends of B...
• 4 April 2011 David Eagleman One of science's great storytellers, David Eagleman, returns with his new work Incognito - The Secret Lives of the Brain which he explore...
• 3 April 2011 Charisma X - Iannis Xenakis Featuring interviews with friends, family, fellow composers and collaborators, this revealing documentary of Iannis Xenakis by filmmaker ...
• 3 April 2011 Kompakt presents KrautPopAmbient Cologne-based Kompakt is one of the great independent record labels, treasured for its diverse but ever-brilliant mix of ambient, minimal...
• 3 April 2011 Xenakis Inspires Ensemble Exposé's programme pays tribute to the work of Iannis Xenakis, featuring three new works by UK-based composers who acknowledge ...
• 3 April 2011 Xenakis: Music for Percussion & Saxophones The Royal College of Music (RCM) is one of the world's leading conservatoires, training the very best young performers and composers from...
• 2 April 2011 - 3 April 2011 Discovering UPIC UPIC, the computerised music composition tool created by Xenakis in the late 1970s, is introduced by composer Rodolphe Bourotte, who is b...
• 2 April 2011 - 3 April 2011 UPIC Workshops Originally created in the late 1970s by Xenakis as a computerised music composition tool, UPIC is based on the premise that drawing can b...
• 1 April 2011 Nick Luscombe Presents: Kelpe & Architeq The first of two special editions of Friday Tonic for Ether festival, curated by DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe (BBC Radio 3 Late Junct...
• 1 April 2011 Young Xenarchitects A dazzling programme of new music and movement inspired by Xenakis, created by talented young musicians in collaboration with sound artis...
• 1 April 2011 - 3 April 2011 Xenakis International Symposium The Iannis Xenakis International Conference London 2011 is organised by the Centre for Contemporary Music Cultures of Goldsmiths, Univers...
• 24 March 2011 Fitkin Band v Trinity Laban Graham Fitkin's stunning nine-piece band is joined by massed musicians and dancers from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in...
• 23 March 2011 - 10 April 2011 Piccard's Capsule On 27 May 1931, Professor August Piccard began a journey that would take him a record-breaking 15.5km into the sky over the course of a 1...