Through the Noise Presents

Choral collective Idrîsî Ensemble journey from the 4th to the 14th century, exploring a millennium of Corsican, Roman, and Greek music for six singers and kanun.

Idrîsî Ensemble explore medieval textuality and orality in a programme of rare, endangered and never-recorded music. Old Roman chant, early polyphony, Corsican and Greek traditions intersect and offer the vision of a shared Mediterranean heritage. Navigating the dynamic between singer and scribe, they explore new frontiers in the performance of identity.

For this performance, Idrîsî Ensemble director Thomas Fournil leads a group of six singers, accompanied by kanun player Konstantinos Glynos, to explore a millennium of music.

Work started on Gorton (now Manchester) Monastery in 1863 under the eye of noted architect Edward Welby Pugin, and has since been heralded as one of the best examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the UK.Built as a Franciscan friary and constructed by the friars themselves, the monastery reopened in 2007 after a decade on the World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites in the World, alongside Pompeii, the Taj Mahal and the Valley of the Kings.