Films

Our Facing Sound performance was in June 2025.

Facing Sound

Our concert, ‘1952 at 70‘ was in December 2022 at the Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead. The theatre director made a small documentary, including rehearsal footage.

Documentary of our ‘1952 at 70’ concert, including rehearsal footage.

In June 2021, we held an online festival, Through the Square Window, which included several performances that were both online, real-time; and none-real-time.

‘Birds on a Long Thin Wire’ by Margrit Schenker
‘Magic Carpet’ by Carole Finer
‘Soul Mates’ by Zeynep Bulut
’12 Sounds Heard’ by Ron Kuivila
Silence and Waiting by Michael Parsons

Two Fiftieth Anniversaries was performed live and online in May 2021.

Link by Pauline Oliveros with Gentle Fire by Alvin Lucier
A documentary about the performance of Link

Our Irma performance was in June 2019

Golden Irma

‘Three Sound Sculptures‘ was performed in 2019.

Sound Sculptures by Wojtek Blecharz

Our Pieces for Pauline performance was was May 2018.

Lullaby for Pauline (Oliveros)

Our ‘Reconstruction of a Map’ performance was at Senate House Library, as part of their Illuminations series, in November 2015.

In 2014, we presented In-Form-ation at Canterbury Christ Church University

In 2013, we had an American Tour. There are several videos from that tour here.

Our Medium Rare performance was in July 2012.

The UK premier of Medium by Mark Applebaum

Our performance of ‘Treatise’ by Cornelius Cardew was at Morley College in November 2011.

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Slowly, slowly, the tongue unrolls: an evening of poetry and sound

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On Tuesday 14 July 2026, the Vocal Constructivists are delighted to present ‘Hatching musical eggs’ as part of Slowly, slowly, the tongue unrolls: An evening of poetry and sound curated by UCL Special Collections and Monitor Books at the Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, starting at 7pm. We are honoured to be joined by dancer and scholar Hari Krishnan. Our programme will include pieces by Fluxus artists Nye Ffarrabas and Alison Knowles, movement artist Simone Forti, concrete poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and composers Barbara Alden, Hildegard of Bingen, and Tom Johnson.

14 July, 6:30 PM at the Horse Hospital, London. Tickets are now available.

Slowly, slowly, the tongue unrolls: an evening of poetry and sound. The Horse Hospital, London, 14 July, 6:30 PM
Concert poster: Slowly, slowly, the tongue unrolls: an evening of poetry and sound. The Horse Hospital, London, 14 July, 6:30 PM
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