School of Arts and Creative Technologies Event: HANDS ON!

Performance
  • Date and time: Wednesday 3 June 2026, 7.30pm
  • Location: In-person only
    School of Arts and Creative Technologies East, Campus East, University of York (Map)
  • Admission: Tickets: £5, booking required

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Event details

This performance is brought to you by the School of Arts and Creative Technologies. Please note that tickets are not available from YorkConcerts or the University Box Office. Please see below for more details.

I don’t think we pay enough attention to touch in music: to how sound feels, via touch.

Hands On is a playful piano performance all about touch: the important nuances of touch, especially for the wonderful resonances of piano music, but also for how playing and listening to music touches us.

 I know the air is being touched by the sound, and the sound is touching the palms and the fingers

Devised and performed by pianist Catherine Laws, with theatre maker Teresa Brayshaw and composers Nicholas Brown, Damien Harron, Jenn Kirby, and Lynette Quek. With additional music by Ruth Crawford Seeger.

 Sometimes I see her reaching for the place that will interfere,

or the place that will resonate,

or the place that will vibrate.

Eyes closed; hearing through touch.

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible

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