Senedd Sounds Thursday, October 5 Morgan hayes Welsh Assembly, Cardiff Bay Richard Rogers’ spectacular new Welsh Assembly building overlooking Cardiff bay is the inspiration and the setting for an unusual new composition by the young British composer Morgan Hayes.

Two performances of the 12 minute work - Hayes’ ‘sonic response’ to the Richard Rogers’ architecture - will take place on the steps of the Assembly’s Debating Chamber (the Senedd) in the early evening of Thursday, October 5. It is scored for nine instrumentalists under the direction of MTW’s Music Director Michael Rafferty, and is highly theatrical and site-specific.

The Urban Legacies conference combines talks, panel debates by an international line-up of architects and arts theorists and producers, and a series of commissions by young and acclaimed artists, including temporary installations, film projections and Morgan Hayes’ new work.

At the age of 33 Morgan Hayes has already created a formidable body of work for orchestras, ensembles and solo piano behind him, and he has a continuing engagement with the visual arts. Now, as Jerwood Associate Composer with Music Theatre Wales under the Jerwood-MTW New Opera Plan he is being given every opportunity to find his own operatic and theatrical voice. Senedd Sounds has been commissioned by CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency and Music Theatre Wales, with a special award from the Tippet Foundation. The performances form part of Urban Legacies II: Another New Babylon, a two-day conference in Cardiff (October 5-6) exploring the role of art in transforming the public realm.

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