Events


4th April 2024
The White Hotel
Salford, UK

Live (Solo)

Supporting THANK 

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27th March 2024
The Stoller Hall

Salford, UK

Live (Solo)

Supporting Mary Lattimore 

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3rd December 2023
Kings Arms
Salford (UK)

Live (Hayley & Lili)

Supporting Brown Wimpenny alongside Uffa-Myem

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16th November 2023
Middleton Hall

Hull, UK

Live (Hayley & Lili)

We will be performing on the University of Hull’s multichannel HEARO system - after a residency in their ambisonic studio. Our live performance has been adapted for real-time ambisonic mixing.
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4th November 2023
The Terrace
Dewsbury, UK

Live (Hayley & Lili)

We will be bringing our dark and swirling soundscapes, constructed from processed cello, clarinet, guitar, electronics, and vocals, to Dewsbury - for a concert produced by Yorkshire Sound Women Network.
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29th October 2023
MANTIS Festival
Manchester, UK

Live (Hayley & Lili)

We will be playing our new piece Womb at MANTIS Festival, adapted for ambisonics for playback on the 50-speaker surround sound festival set-up. Womb is a semi-improvised piece for shruti box, cello, clarinet, and electronics –  crafted during a residency this summer at Sage Gateshead in Newcastle.
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25th October 2022
The White Hotel

Salford, UK

Live (Solo)

Supporting Manchester Collective’s LAD, featuring violinist Rakhi Singh and guitarist Alan Keary (aka Shunya)

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24th September 2023
Fat Out Fest
Salford, UK

Live (Solo)

Playing a live set at Islington Mill as part of Fat Out Fest 2023, a festival of new experimental music and art from the queer underground, held at Islington Mill.
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6th-12th August 2023
Sage Gateshead
Newcastle, UK

Residency (Hayley & Lili)

A week-long residency at Sage Gateshead’s Summer Studios - Hayley Suviste and Lili-Holland Fricke will spend the week making music for their upcoming EP, which is comprised of dark and swirling soundscapes, constructed from processed cello, clarinet, guitar, electronics, and vocals.
Full details: here

7th June 2023
SOUP
Manchester, UK

Live (Solo)

Supporting Lara Jones alongside Carmel Smickersgill 

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6th June 2023Low Four Studio
Manchester, UK

Live (Vulgia Collaborative)

A concert tour across Europe of improvisation-based performances in collaboration with a variety of local musicians and visual artists. For this show, Néfur (Laura Guarch) will be joined by Manchester-based sound artists Hayley Suviste and Ryan Woods, to create an unique immersive performance, inspired by the musical material of Guarch's most recent release, Vulgia [vulnerable and wild] - featuring processed field recordings, vocals, clarinet, violin, pedals, and synthesisers.

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4th June 2023

Hulme Community Garden Centre
Manchester, UK


Sen-sing Workshop
Join The Manchester Ear and Bothy for a unique singing workshop led by Néfur (Laura Guarch), a renowned Catalan vocalist, composer, and field recordist, at the tranquil Hulme Community Garden Centre.

This workshop invites you to explore embodied listening and engage in guided group vocal improvisations with captivating field recordings. Through this sonic collaboration with the more-than-human world, the human voice becomes one among many voices in the natural world's biophony.

This Manchester edition of the ‘Sen-sing’ workshop is presented by The Manchester Ear and BOTHY.


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21st May 2023

Ryebank Fields
Manchester, UK

The Manchester Ear Sound Walk - Ryebank Fields
This event is a perfect opportunity for anyone seeking a mindful start to their Sunday and a chance to connect with nature by immersing themselves in the breathtaking beauty and sounds of the blooming wildlife in this serene wild space.

We'll meet at the Ryebank Community Camp tower, located by the Longford Road entrance. The walk will last for approximately an hour, after which we'll gather for coffee and engage in a conversation about our experience of the walk.


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1-10th December 2022
Huron Basin, Salford Quays
Salford, UK


Navvies Lightwaves Installation
An art installation by Matthew Rosier and featuring music by Hayley Suviste with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, commemorating the labour of the 17,000 navvies who dug the Manchester Ship Canal, opening as part of Lightwaves Festival 2022 (1st – 10th December 2022) at Salford Quays.

For more details of this work, visit: www.salfordnavvies.co.uk

13th October 2022 

The White Hotel 
Salford, UK


Live (Solo) 

Supporting Ben Frost - POSTPONED
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24th September 2022
Todmorden Unitarian Church
Todmorden, UK

Live (Solo)

I'll be performing my solo live set at Tor Fest, alonsgide artists including Richard Dawson, Holy Scum, Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh, and Elaine Howley. Tor Fest is a small eclectic music Festival in the stunning surroundings of Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
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