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The UK's largest international festival of new and experimental music.
hcmf// 2025: 21 - 30 November

hcmf// 2025 on sale now: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
To everyone who joined us, supported us, collaborated with us, or simply listened, and to the wonderful artists who featured at this year’s edition: thank you. Your curiosity, commitment and openness are what keep hcmf// moving forward.
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Day Ten closes hcmf// 2025 with a full Cultures of Climate programme — all free.

12–4pm: Soundwalk Betweenness
12–6pm: Tipping Point + Reclaimed Land
12pm: Tell It To The Trees
2pm: When I Grow Up to Be the Apocalypse
4pm: Paradoxical Symmetries
6pm: Sonic Ecologies

Link in bio.
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Day Nine:

10–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation
10.30am Sound Canvas (Heritage Quay)
1pm XN: Stefan Schultze
3pm McKenzie in conversation w/ Tim Isfort
5pm + 9pm XN concerts at Town Hall.

Tickets and events schedule tr.ee/1PWaoZlCId:
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Day Eight of hcmf// 2025:

10am–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation
1pm Saxtronauts (St Paul’s Hall)
6pm Marlaut (Bates Mill Studio)
8pm Ensemble Contrechamps w/ Halal & Kokcharova.

Tickets in bio.
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Day Seven of hcmf// 2025:

10am–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation (Richard Steinitz Building)
1–3pm Resonances of Nusantara workshop
7.15pm Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul at Town Hall.

Link in bio.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Day Six of hcmf// 2025:

11am–4pm The Listening Room at AMPED Coffee (talk at 3pm)
3.30pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation launch
7.15pm RÓIS / Milkweed at Town Hall.

Link in bio.
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Join us tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) at AMPED Coffee for After the End of the World: The Listening Room — a day of music, sound + reflection inspired by Natalie Hyacinth’s work. Frances & Natalie in convo at 3pm.

Link in bio.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Day Five of hcmf// 2025:

12pm Saviet/Houston Duo perform new work by @sarahhennies.bsky.social (St Paul’s Hall). 7.15pm Sholto Dobie, Jessie Marino and Fred Frith at Huddersfield Town Hall.

Today's tickets & schedule: tr.ee/EmpMLA5lZM
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Day Four means our infamous hcmf// shorts programme from 12pm–12pm across St Paul’s Hall, Phipps Hall, Bates Mill + Town Hall. Installations, performances + late-night sets.

Full schedule: tr.ee/vy2551En5z
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Day Three of hcmf// 2025:

12pm Mivos Quartet: @sarahhennies.bsky.social (St Paul’s Hall)
3pm 'Lady Sapiens' (Bates Mill)
7pm London Sinfonietta (Town Hall)
10pm EMA is sold out.

Tickets for today’s schedule: tr.ee/w0h17Bls98
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Day Two of hcmf// 2025 brings film, choral + cutting-edge performance:

11am Every Sound a Jewel
1pm Pärt @ 90
4pm Mivos Quartet
7.30pm ONCEIM (SO)
9.45pm Across the North Sea (SO)

Buy Tickets Here: tr.ee/aqxMh7d3-j
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
hcmf// 2025 kicks off today!

Explore Ensemble opens at 7pm (Huddersfield Town Hall), followed by Dedalus Ensemble performing @sarahhennies.bsky.social’ Motor Tapes at 9.30pm (Bates Mill Blending Shed).

Remaining tickets here: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Line-up update for hcmf// shorts:

Arnas Mikalkėnas can no longer perform. Stepping in is guitar legend Fred Frith, joining Heiner Goebbels for a unique duo encounter. Mon 24 Nov, 6:10pm.

hcmf.co.uk/programme/hcmf-shorts-4/
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Frazer Merrick, Luis Fernando Amaya & Natalie Hyacinth spent 12 months exploring sustainable composition and creative sound practices. Their new works premiere at hcmf// 2025 later this month.

Find out more at link in bio.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Artist Spotlight: The Carice Singers

Don’t miss their hcmf// debut: Pärt @ 90 with organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent + Baltic & Nordic gems, incl. 2 UK premieres.

Sat 22 Nov, St Paul’s Hall.

🎟️ £32/£41.60/£7

Buy yours here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/the-carice-singers-part-90/
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Artist Spotlight: Marlaut

Marlaut — a multisensory performance by Debbie Armour, Maria Sappho, Nadya Hatta & Arum Dayu — blends sound, film & textiles into a living folklore of sea, care & memory. UK Premiere at hcmf// 2025.

Link in bio
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Artist Spotlight: Sholto Dobie

Dobie, Marino & Frith explore experimental soundscapes with concertinas, electronics & guitar. UK Premiere 'cascades’.

🗓️ Tue 25 Nov, 7:15 pm | 📍 Huddersfield Town Hall

Tickets: link.dice.fm/Oa3944598256?dice_id=Oa3944598256
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Event Spotlight: Resonances of Nusantara

🗓️ 27 Nov, 1–3pm
📍 RS/G 01

Dive into Indonesia’s radical sound worlds at this free vocal workshop with Dinar Rizkianti & Gema Swaratyagita.

Secure your free place here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/workshop-resonances-of-nusantara/
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Artist Spotlight: Mingo Rajandi

'Lady Sapiens' premieres 23 Nov. Bold, genre-blurring music exploring femininity + human history.

Don’t miss it — tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/lady-sapiens/
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The countdown has begun, just 7 days to go!

hcmf// 2025 opens with the phenomenal Explore Ensemble. Tickets are flying out—book now to be part of the opening night.

Remaining tickets 🎟️ - hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Artist Spotlight: Ensemble Contrechamps

Geneva’s fearless Ensemble Contrechamps bring daring precision to hcmf// 2025 with UK premieres by Wassim Halal & Olga Kokcharova.

🗓️ Fri 28 Nov | 📍Bates Mill Blending Shed
🎟️ Link in bio
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Midweek programme at Huddersfield Town Hall

Three nights of boundary-pushing sound at #hcmf2025:
25 Nov – Sholto Dobie / Jessie Marino / Fred Frith
26 Nov – RÓIS / Milkweed
27 Nov – Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul

Tickets + info: link in bio
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hidden Gems 2025

hcmf// Artistic Director Graham McKenzie digs deep to uncover the festival’s must-hear discoveries — from Mingo Rajandi to Sholto Dobie, Milkweed, Saxtronauts, Wassim Halal & Carolin Pook.

Read more: hcmf.co.uk/hcmf-2025-hidden-gems-2/
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Artist Spotlight: Rytis Mažulis

Explore Ensemble open hcmf// 2025 with Mažulis’s 'Canon Mensurabilis' — hypnotic canons + crystalline precision from Lithuania’s master of “minimalist maximalism.”

Fri 21 Nov, 7 pm | Huddersfield Town Hall

Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/explore-ensemble/
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Artist Spotlight: Raminta Šerkšnytė

Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnytė brings her luminous 'Oriental Elegy (Rytų elegija)' to hcmf// 2025 with the Mivos Quartet — a meditative UK Premiere where stillness meets transcendence.

Sat 22 Nov, 4pm |Huddersfield Town Hall
£22 / £28.60 / £7 |Link in bio
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM