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Total Immersion in Symphonic Electronics: A Journey Through Sound and Innovation
On February 23, 2025, the BBC Symphony Orchestra will host 'Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics', a groundbreaking event series exploring the fusion of electronics and orchestral music. The series will feature renowned composers like Steven Daverson, Shiva Feshareki, and Juste Janulyte, along with iconic works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Tristan Murail. With discussions, premieres, and performances, this series promises a deep dive into the innovative world of symphonic electronics, offering audiences a chance to engage with the creative minds shaping the future of music.
Feb 22, 2025
Share1. Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics - Meet Steven Daverson
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Steven Daverson, creative sound engineers and others about symphonic electronics.
Feb 23, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Barbican Centre
2. Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics - Iridescence
The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – “symphonic” in the ancient Greek meaning “harmonious”.
Feb 23, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Milton Court
3. Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics - Continents, Computers and Electronic Dreams
Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.
Feb 23, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Barbican Centre
4. Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics - Meet Shiva Feshareki
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Shiva Feshareki and sound systems designer Daniel Hulme about Feshareki’s new work Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory.
Feb 23, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Barbican Centre
5. Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics - Shiva Feshareki and Stockhausen
Stockhausen’s last electronic piece, plus a new adventure from experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki: Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory. A wondrous finale to a day of sonic innovation.
Feb 23, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Barbican Centre
6. Chan conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony
Every piece of music makes its own world. Shostakovich faced the terror of Stalin’s Russia and composed a symphony that echoed down the twentieth century. The young Benjamin Britten set out to impress with a Piano Concerto that plays fabulous games with light and shade. Elizabeth Ogonek, meanwhile, simply gazed into a moonlit sky – and heard sounds of unforgettable enchantment.
Feb 28, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Barbican Centre
7. Elena Schwarz conducts Scriabin and Rachmaninov
When Sergey Rachmaninov composed his evocative Études-Tableaux (‘Study-Pictures’) for piano, he kept his inspirations to himself, hoping that audiences would imagine their own pictures instead. Almost twenty years later, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi set out to orchestrate a selection, Rachmaninov divulged some of the images that had come to mind when writing the pieces: a fair, the sea, children’s tales, and marches.
Mar 3, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · BBC Maida Vale Studios
8. Nil Venditti conducts Ravel, Musgrave and Say
Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin pays homage to the stylings of bygone French keyboard music – each movement taking the form of a traditional Baroque dance, and dedicated to friends of the composer who had died fighting in World War I.
Mar 6, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · BBC Maida Vale Studios
9. Stasevska conducts Ravel
With some pieces, you really need to feel the floor shake. Experience Janáček’s jubilant Sinfonietta, as 14 trumpets line up across the stage and Janáček’s salute to his hometown of Brno goes supernova in a blaze of glory. It takes a lot to follow Bartók’s Cantata Profana and Ravel’s astonishing Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - but if anyone can do it, it’s Janáček.
Mar 12, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Barbican Centre
10. Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at the BBC (Film)
Two classic BBC Television documentaries - a compilation fronted by Tom Service, and Barrie Gavin presenting one of his own many Boulez films. Using archive footage and interviews to explore Pierre Boulez’s very special relationship with the BBC and its orchestras.
Mar 30, 2025
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London · Barbican Centre
Conclusion
The 'Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics' series offers a profound exploration of the intersections between traditional orchestral music and modern electronic innovation. Through thought-provoking discussions, UK premieres, and powerful performances, this event not only celebrates the fusion of genres but also challenges the boundaries of musical creativity. As audiences journey through this sonic landscape, they are invited to reflect on the transformative power of music and its ability to unite diverse artistic expressions into a harmonious whole.
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