Manchester Collective Serenity 2.0

Wednesday 19 March, 7.30pm 1 hour 30 minutes including interval  

Djanogly Theatre  

£25  

Bryce Dessner: Aheym  

Nabihah Iqbal: What Psyche Felt (world premiere)  

Sebastian Gainsborough: Squint  

Ben Nobuto: SERENITY 2.0  

Dobrinka Tabakova: Insight  

Eric Prydz arr. Ben Nobuto: Opus  

Ever felt overstimulated by your phone screen? Ben Nobuto’s SERENITY 2.0 is a glitched-out collage of frenzied strings, percussion and samples. It cycles restlessly through Japanese pop, news anchors and vocal-fried YouTubers – but the calm after the doomscrolling is worth the ride. Musician and DJ Nabihah Iqbal takes inspiration from Boiler Room raves to the Turner Prize. What Psyche Felt for string quartet and electronics, receives its world premiere. The finale? Eric Prydz’s colossal house anthem Opus, reimagined.