<open jack>

2023– · experimental electronic music ensemble · founder and director

<open jack> is an experimental electronic music ensemble at Brunel University London, founded and directed by Ruaidhri Mannion. It runs improvisation workshops and evening events a couple of times a year, open to students and staff.

Its first concert, on 11 December 2023 in the Gaskell Building, presented music by Éliane Radigue, Bernard Parmegiani, Diana Čemerytė and Louis Andriessen; Ruaidhri’s electronic realisation of James Tenney’s In a Large, Open Space; his live soundtrack for Jacques Drouin’s Le Paysagiste; and Terry Riley’s In C, played from graphic scores driven by a score follower. Performers: Emily Baines, Colin Riley, Zach Stone, Anne Gekonge, Joe Fulford, Marie Protopapas and Ruaidhri Mannion.