Signals is Back!
We are excited to be back for the 4th edition of Signals Festival!
Signals is Rotherham's FREE festival showcasing and supporting our brilliant young musicians, artists and creatives.
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Signals is a year-round programme of events and this year our key festival week is the 14th to the 22nd February. Take a look at what we've got to come below:
Microtonal
This year, we're working alongside Invisible Flock, who are bringing their musical installation 'Microtonal' to Rotherham Town Centre. Invisible Flock describes Microtonal below:
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Microtonal is an installation comprising 200 borindos (boreendo) - a clay wind instrument from the desert of Sindh, Pakistan and recently added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding list. The work is a collaboration between Invisible Flock and the artists standing between it and a form of cultural extinction - Allah Jurio, the only remaining craftsman who makes the borindo and Faqir Zulfiquar, the only known musician to play them.
Utilising innovative technologies Microtonal is an audio reactive, algorithmically driven installation of 200 borindos. The work amplifies otherwise imperceptible sine waves creating a chorus of these rare instruments playing autonomously. Microtonal explores intangible cultural heritage (as both traditional and living expression), rethinking preservation not as static memory but as a dynamic, collaborative act of cultural resilience.
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Alongside the main installation we will also be holding free workshops devised by Rotherham-based artist, composer and theorist Mark Fell.
Community workshops available on 16th Feb, from 4-6pm & 20th Feb, from 7-9pm.
School workshops are available between 23rd & 27th Feb, at 9:30-11:30am and 12:30-2:30pm daily.
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To register your or your school's interest in these workshops email us with your preferred time at music@rotherham.gov.uk
Signals Open Mic
Our collaborative Open Mic project started alongside Children's Capital of Culture last year, the event is run by young people for young people, and is a great opportunity for new, young performers to show off their skills and potentially get invited to perform at some of our other events later in the year!
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This year, we're bringing the Open Mic back, once again working alongside Children's Capital of Culture, we'll be hidden away in The Den at Grimm & Co on the opening evening of Signals Festival on Feb 14th.
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Come and join us! You can sign up for free at the link below:
Rotherham Loves Music
Running on 14th & 15th February from 6-9pm in Rotherham Town Centre.
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Rotherham Loves Music is a free, family-friendly light and sound festival. It features brand-new light projections – turning Rotherham Minster into a musical instrument – accompanied by soundtracks created in collaboration with local Rotherham musicians.
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Enjoy creative workshops inside Grimm & Co and The Imperial Buildings, meet the musical performers roaming the site, and enjoy a boogie at the giant silent disco tent in Minster yard!
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Rotherham Loves Music is arranged by Flux Rotherham, with projections by Illuminos, as part of Children's Capital of Culture.