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Cosmo Sheldrake // Lump // Matekoi (live) : IF Festival

  • The Goods Shed Station Approach, Stroud Glos United Kingdom (map)


Saturday 22nd January TICKETS UPDATE

We are releasing extra tickets for Saturday and Sunday as we have additional capacity.

IF - Immersive Fields is a brand new festival working with artists to create fully spatialised audio-visual installations - live and pre-recorded - taking the audience inside the music, bathed in sound and light.

Cosmo Sheldrake ‘Wake Up Calls’ 360° album installation
Wake Up Calls’ was created over a nine year period, using recordings of bird song featured on the red and amber lists of endangered British birds (with the exception of a Robin and a Blackbird, which aren’t endangered – yet).

The album starts at night with a Nightjar and a Nightingale. The music progresses, track by track, through dawn and day time, round to the evening chorus and back to night with another Nightingale and an Owl. Cuckoo Song, is composed by Benjamin Britten and features the sound of a Cuckoo singing above Britten’s grave in Aldeburgh Cemetery, recorded by the soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause.

LUMP ‘Animal’ spatial audio

‘Animal' is the second album from offbeat duo Laura Marling and the man Uncut are calling an "Eno for the Green Man generation", Tunng’s Mike Lindsay. Here their "sonic tableau of small-hours twinkletronica” is magnified into fully immersive surround sound for the first time.

Matekoi (live)
'M a t e k o i' is an audio-visual collaboration between Maxim Barron (Toy, Patent Saints) and visual artist Daisy Dickinson. Creating an immersive experience using 360 spatial audio and reactive visuals projected onto hundred of strands of suspended string.

Audio by Loss><Gain using Soundscape from d&b audiotechnik. Visuals by Flat-e.

£10 in advance, £12 on night, £25 for full weekend.
Under 25s :
£8 in advance, £10 on the night, £20 for full weekend.

[Image credit : Matekoi]

Find the full festival information :

Friday 21st January 8pm - Luke Abbott (live) + Richard Norris (live)
Saturday 22nd January daytime 3-5.30pm (free) : John Foxx ‘Cathedral Oceans' 360° ambient installation
Saturday 22nd January 8pm - NYX/Gazelle Twin ‘Deep England’ 360° album installation + Hannah Peel ‘Fir Wave’ 360° album installation
Sunday 23rd January Daytime 3-5.30pm (free) : Sigur Rós ‘Sleep’ 360° soundbath
Sunday 23rd January 8pm - Cosmo Sheldrake ‘Wake Up Calls’ 360° album installation + Lump ‘Animal’ + Matekoi (live)



Saturday 22nd January TICKETS UPDATE

We are releasing extra tickets for Saturday and Sunday as we have additional capacity.

£10 advance + booking fee
£12 on the door

Ticket discounts for under 25’s


Already have a ticket for November?

This event was originally planned for 12-14 November 2021 but was postponed due to Covid. If you bought tickets please hold onto them as they will be valid for these new dates in January 2022. If you cannot attend you can request a refund via office@sva.org.uk.