This is a cinema screening of a live performance given by UPROAR Wales New Music Ensemble in February 2024.

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Our memories wane over time. Our memories compete with the world around us, scrambling to be remembered. Memories make us smile. Memories make us cry. As soon as they might make us feel joy, they may snatch that away and open up old heartache. Memories enable us to recognise who we are and where we are going. The day following is a work that allows us to reflect on memory, and specifically the memories of those whose communities have been taken from them. The music comes and goes. Snippets of old tunes are heard and buried. Distant hymns and church bells wash over us.

The day following is a sonic landscape for these now distant memories of a lost community in Wales, created by award-winning Welsh composer, Nathan James Dearden, and performed by UPROAR New Music Ensemble. At the centre of the video piece is archival footage of Capel Celyn village and farms of the Tryweryn Valley, first broadcast in 1965, weeks before the flooding of this Welsh-speaking community.

The screening will also feature works by the student composers attending Musicfest Aberystwyth’s summer school. The screening lasts approximately 30-minutes, and will be looped, so audience members can come and go.

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