BCMCR Research Seminar – Jazz Studies: Remixing the Festival (part of Punkt Birmingham) 
1600-1730 Wednesday 18 March 2020
C284, Curzon B, Birmingham City University
Free registration at this link
As part of Punkt Birmingham (18-20 March), this seminar features a panel discussion between artistic directors Jan Bang and Erik Honoré (Punkt), Tony Dudley Evans (Cheltenham Jazz Festival and THSH Jazzlines), Sarah Farmer (Ideas of Noise) and Fiona Talkington (BBC Radio 3). The discussion will explore questions around artistic principles and values, audience engagement, technology, places and spaces, market pressures, equality and diversity, and future challenges.

Jan Bang is a Norwegian musician and record producer, known from albums and collaborations with musicians like Sidsel Endresen, David Sylvian, Jon Hassell, Tigran Hamasyan, Nils Petter Molvaer, Eivind Aarset, Arve Henriksen and Erik Honore – with whom he co-founded Punkt Festival in 2005. Jan is one of Norway’s most accomplished and influential producers and is the kind of musical innovator and bridge-builder who consistently manages to balance progressive thinking with popular appeal.  Forever looking to move music and musicians and audiences forward, he creates new meeting places and musical intersections.  He is a professor of electronic music at the University of Agder.

Tony Dudley-Evans is Programme Adviser to both Jazzlines at Town Hall Symphony Hall and Cheltenham Jazz Festival.  He also collaborates with the improvised music programme run by Fizzle with whom he runs gigs as TDE Promotions.
Sarah Farmer is a Birmingham based artist and musician mostly working with sound, violins and improvisation She is interested in site specific work, relational work, work that involves a lot of learning and researching - both receiving and sharing information, working in a way that facilitates learning about this stuff of life, our environments, our histories and possible futures, our materials and how we've gone about navigating these constant questions.

Erik Honoré is a Norwegian writer, musician, record producer and sound engineer. He has recorded and performed live with, among others, Jon Hassell, Sidsel Endresen, Nils Petter Molvær, David Sylvian, Eivind Aarset and Arve Henriksen. With Jan Bang, he initiated the Punkt Festival in 2005, and has since then brought the Punkt concept to more than 25 cities around the world. Honoré has also released two critically acclaimed solo albumes on the Hubro label, composed music for films, and written three novels for Norway’s largest publishing house, Gyldendal.

Fiona Talkington is a presenter on BBC Radio 3, a founding presenter of the award -winning ‘Late Junction’ programme. She has been working with the Norwegian arts scene for 25 years and has been associated with the Punkt Festival since it began in 2005.

Over the last 15 years, Punkt has gained an international reputation as an exciting, progressive and musically inclusive festival. Thanks in part to the unique concept of the “live remix”, the annual pilgrimage to Kristiansand in Norway has become a regular fixture for adventurous music lovers. This collaboration between Punkt, UK based artists and Birmingham City University presents an exciting, and rare, opportunity to enjoy the Punkt experience outside of Norway.
For more information go to: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/punkt2020

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