hcmf//

The UK's largest international festival of new and experimental music.
hcmf// 2026: 20-29 November

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

Announcing the hcmf// 2026 Composer in Residence: Lauri Supponen

A Helsinki-based composer, Supponen creates bold, collaborative work across sound, performance & installation.

Discover more — Link in bio.
Image: © Pyry Kantonen

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

XN at Moers Festival

Curated by Graham McKenzie: Sophie Cooper, Tom Hawkins, Flo Christman, Jan Hendrickse, Heather Roche, Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson.

📅 22–23 May

Link in bio.

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

Lauri Supponen traces vast ideas to small turning points—where a tree falls, a line shifts, a direction bends. His music reveals how the smallest moments can ripple far beyond themselves.

Link in our bio.

Profile by Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Photo © Tuomas Tenkanen

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

Lauri Supponen traces vast ideas to small turning points—where a tree falls, a line shifts, a direction bends. His music reveals how the smallest moments can ripple far beyond themselves.

Link in our bio.

Profile by Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Photo © Tuomas Tenkanen

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

Announcing the hcmf// 2026 Composer in Residence: Lauri Supponen

A Helsinki-based composer, Supponen creates bold, collaborative work across sound, performance & installation.

Discover more — Link in bio.
Image: © Pyry Kantonen

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

We are thrilled to announce that hcmf// 2026 will take place from Friday 20 – Sunday 29 November.

Composer in Residence announcement coming soon — watch this space! 👀

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

We are thrilled to announce that hcmf// 2026 will take place from Friday 20 – Sunday 29 November.

Composer in Residence announcement coming soon — watch this space! 👀

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

From bold world premieres to immersive performances across Huddersfield, hcmf// 2025 wowed critics and audiences alike.

Celebrated for adventurous programming and amplifying experimental voices, the festival left a lasting mark.

Read more: https://t.co/qmz85UbNlY

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

🎉 We are thrilled that Claudia Molitor’s Fever (hcmf// 2024 commission) has been shortlisted for the RPS 2026 Chamber-Scale Composition Award!

Link in bio

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

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.

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

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.

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

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: https://t.co/GEVa4vV7Vh

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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.

[marat ingeldeev @maratingeldeev]

Fun times at my first-ever @hcmfuk 2025. My piece for @vanmusicmag is out now, with pretty mind-boggling insights from @mckenzie_gr and a few unvarnished concert takes. This one's for lovers of numbers and sceptics of the UK’s arts funding. https://t.co/j2NzSazoon

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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.

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

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.

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

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.

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

Tickets for tonight's performance with Fred Frith here: https://t.co/0t5y0z5ywC

[Graham McKenzie (Hon DUniv) @mckenzie_gr]

If you enjoyed Fred Frith’s amazing performance with Heiner Goebbels @hcmfuk shorts yesterday then catch him solo tonight as part of a fantastic triple bill - details https://t.co/vkFJo2EFiW

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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: https://t.co/7SJDSiNIWb

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

Day Four means our legendary hcmf// shorts programme from 12pm–12pm across St Paul’s Hall, Phipps Hall, Bates Mill + Town Hall. Installations, performances + late-night sets.

Full schedule: https://t.co/aa1aUEOJ0D