MANTIS FESTIVAL
1st - 2nd March 2025



Programme Notes Artist Bios




MANTIS FESTIVAL is a biannual celebration of electroacoustic music from Manchester and beyond.

With a variety of genre’s practices, and research projects, Mantis festival is a celebration of new music and experimental practices, performed live or diffused over the immersive 48 speaker loudspeaker orchestra in the John Thaw Studio Theatre.


Location: John Thaw Theatre
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
The University of Manchester





SATURDAY


Concert 1 | 6pm



Keyi Xu 

Sonic Fabric Weaving Rhythms of Dissonance
15,00 | Live AV

Rosalia Soria Luz
TLATOANI
9,50 | 8-channel

Cameron Naylor

Ordeshala
12,00 | 8-channel

Guillaume Dujat

Filter Mouth
3,38 | Stereo

Hayley Suviste

the pigeons from my window
15,00 | Live Ambisonic




Concert 2 | 7.30pm
Kelly Jayne Jones

Live Performance
50,00 | Live AV
Tanguy Pocquet
Noise soup and then not
13,00 | Stereo AV

10-minute interval

Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos
Noisy Zoo
7,00 | Stereo

Tasos Asonitis

Exhibits
17,15 | Stereo



SUNDAY


Concert 3 | 2pm



Jintao Yan
Dokodemo Door (Anywhere Door)
4,47 | Stereo

Shurui Zhang

Metronome
4,17 | Stereo

Ke Shi

Very Careful
4,58 | Stereo

Shiwen Qui

Meteorite
4,56 | Stereo

Wenxin Zhou

Balloon
4,58 | Stereo

Wenxi Song

Echoing Realm
4,26 | Stereo
George Parris

Alone with Everybody
5,05 | Stereo
10-minute interval

Ryan Woods

Sounds of Zimbabwe
40,00 | Ambisonic





INSTALLATION


Saturday 12pm - 9pm   |   Sunday 10am - 2pm


Ricardo Climent

My Favourite T-shirt
A 2.5D side-scrolling platformer video game on Fast Fashion impact on water resources