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Listen: Sound Unbound playlist
A teaser of the music you could hear at this year’s Sound Unbound

Barbican Sessions: Christoph Sietzen
For our latest Barbican Session, percussionist Christoph Sietzen performs in an empty Cinema 1.

Listen: Sound Unbound DJ Mix
Listen to G Prokofiev & Classical Mechanics' Sound Unbound DJ Mix.
Watch: Sound Unbound
A free music festival of unexpected sounds in unexpected places.
Barbican Sessions: Bartosz Glowacki
Accordionist Bartosz Glowacki performs the animated third movement ‘Thieves’ from Five views on the Archipelago Gulag by Ukrainian composer Victor Vlasov in the entrance to the Exhibition Halls.
Watch: Max Cooper and Bruce Brubaker on Glassforms
Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper talk about Glassforms.
Explore the programme
Head here for our headliners. Our 2000-seater concert hall is the place to hear everything from minimalist sounds reimagined to iconic music you’ll probably recognise – including Carl Orff’s explosive choral work Carmina Burana. Stephen Fry introduces the symphony that changed classical music forever, Beethoven’s Eroica. The charismatic Miloš blends classical guitar with the Beatles. And the soundtrack is the star in the Academy Award-winning love-letter to the silent film era The Artist (PG), screened here with a live performance of its toe-tapping score.
Saturday
12.30–1.20pm: Carmina Burana with London Symphony Chorus
4–4.40pm: Miloš + 12 ensemble – Bach to Beatles
8–10pm: The Artist, live in concert with BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sunday
12noon–1pm: Heroic Beethoven: Symphony No 3 introduced by Stephen Fry
2.30–3.10pm: Chineke! Orchestra – Elegy for Stephen Lawrence
4.45–5.25pm: Bach Recomposed with Peter Gregson
8–9.30pm: Max Cooper + Bruce Brubaker: Glassforms
Take a time out in the tranquil Norfolk Garden, where you can rest or stroll through Pleasure Garden, an interactive ‘listening garden’ installation. Grab a bite to eat, and enjoy the pop up performances around you.
Saturday
1.30–2pm: Elysium Brass
2.30–2.50pm: Street Orchestra Live
3.30–4pm: Elysium Brass
4.30–4.50pm: Street Orchestra Live
Sunday
1.30–2pm: Elysium Brass
2.30–2.50pm: Street Orchestra Live
3.30–4pm: Elysium Brass
4.30–4.50pm: Street Orchestra Live
Experience English Renaissance music reborn for a digital age with the electric guitar group Zwerm in one of the City’s few remaining medieval churches. And Mendelssohn’s romantic String Octet exploring the ecstasy, elation and anguish of young love is paired with an arrangement of Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Ros’s Fljótavík, both played by the dynamic young 12 ensemble.
Saturday
1.15–1.55pm: Young Love from 12 ensemble
3–3.40pm: Bach Recomposed by Peter Gregson
4.30–5.10pm: Bach Recomposed by Peter Gregson
6.45–7.25pm: Electric Renaissance from Zwerm
Sunday
1–1.40pm: Sacred Bones Sackbut Ensemble
3–3.40pm: No Time for Chamber Music from Collectif9
5–5.40pm: Electric Renaissance from Zwerm
Check out the best in new classical, electronic and experimental music – nonclassical take over one of London's most beloved nightclubs, putting their sound system to the test with experimental electronics, turntablist strings, short films, and a musical safari from nonclassical DJs.
Saturday
1.30–2pm: nonclassical @ fabric
2–2.40pm: nonclassical @ fabric: Tom Richards
2.45–2.55pm: ?Corporel with Tomyr Warcaba-Wood
2.55–4pm: nonclassical @ fabric
4–4.40pm: nonclassical @ fabric: Mira Calix
4.40–4.50pm: ?Corporel with Vittorio Angelone
4.50–6pm: nonclassical @ fabric
6–6.40pm: nonclassical @ fabric: Shiva Feshareki & Addelam
6.40–7pm: nonclassical @ fabric
A Culture Mile Event.
Sound Unbound is a joint project between the Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Academy of Ancient Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Thanks to The Charterhouse, St Bartholomew the Great, St Bartholomew the Less, City Music Foundation, St Giles’ Cripplegate, LSO St Luke’s, fabric, Dutch Performing Arts and Classical Futures Europe for their kind support.
The Artist is screened by kind permission of Entertainment Film Distributors Ltd. Wilton Diptych video reproduced by permission of Smarthistory.
Barbican and Culture Mile
Locations
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
St Giles' Cripplegate, Fore Street, EC2Y 8DA
SIlk Street Music Hall, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Milton Court Concert Hall, 1 Milton Street, EC2Y 9BH
Piano Smithfield, 14 Long Lane, EC1A 9PN
St Bartholomew the Great, Cloth Fair, EC1A 7JQ
St Bartholomew the Less, 57A W Smithfield, EC1A 9DS
Smithfield Rotunda, West Smithfield, EC1A 9DY
Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ
Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN
Gresham Centre, Gresham Street, EC2V 7BX
Museum of London, 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN
LSO St Luke’s, 161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG