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Circuit des Yeux
with LCO Soloists
Wed 6 Apr 2022, Milton Court Concert Hall, 7.30pm
Tickets £18 plus booking fee

Celebrated figure in the Chicago experimental music scene, composer Haley Fohr brings her longstanding project Circuit des Yeux to the Barbican’s music programme in April 2022. She will be presenting material from her upcoming new album -io (out on Matador on 22 Oct 2021), brought to live by soloists from the London Contemporary Orchestra. -io is Fohr’s first Circuit des Yeux album in four years, following 2017’s Reaching for Indigo. 

Known for her arresting voice and the transportive moods she grows around it, Haley Fohr’s work strikes a unique balance between the personal and universal. As Circuit des Yeux she creates music that embodies the complexity of human emotions, juxtaposing tenderness and grief, ecstasy and horror, using sounds as representations of the emotional spectrum that we all experience.

Produced by the Barbican in association with Bird on the Wire
On sale to Barbican patrons and members on Wed 29 Sep 2021
On general sale from Fri 1 Oct 2021
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