Lotte Betts-Dean

Ambience and stillness, words and sound, light and dark, wild and calm… this newly adapted version of Lotte Betts-Dean’s Voice Electric explores the vivid colours of the amplified human voice as it oscillates between states of being.

Mezzo-soprano Betts-Dean sings works for solo amplified voice with electronics, from groundbreaking 20th Century works by Scelsi, Feldman, and Schwitters, to 21st Century pieces that draw on medieval plainchant, experimental electronica and techno.

Receiving its highly-charged debut at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2022, Voice Electric is in part a tribute to Lotte’s lifelong fascination with electronic music, as well as a reflection and celebration of the medium of solo voice and fixed electronic audio in modern composition.

Alongside works by Stuart MacRae, Erin Gee and Caroline Shaw, this freshly updated version of the show curated especially for Norfolk & Norwich Festival features works by Cassandra Miller, Georges Aperghis and Enno Poppe as well as a UK premiere from Sara Glojnari?.