HARMONICON 2

Stone Club and resonance join forces again to present HARMONICON 2!

A three-day festival of esoterica, connected by a shared imagination… exploring the harmony between ourselves, HARMONICON is spread around Todmorden, through walks, talks, drones, stones and folkish tones.

The portal opens for an alignment with musicianship, artists, poets, folk and speakers, gathered from the astral fringes for a weekend shindig for motley spirits and unworldly fellow travellers. With interactive experiments,  and open sessions, creating good magic in tough times! Based around the gothic Unitarian Church, with more events, after parties and activities in the Golden Lion, Nan Moors, the Workshop & a folk fire pit for anyone to come and reflect.

But what is a Harmonicon you ask? It is a harmonised instrument of stones, resonating and relating with each other. We use this philosophy for a gathering of interconnectivity and chiming the pieces together.

Todmorden is 30 mins from Manchester by train but in a different world. The town is a beacon for the unusual, situated in the centre of the UFO valley, it is steeped in folklore, myth and magic.

Online Guide : https://www.harmonicon.co.uk/

A short video of last years gathering

This year we will feature a special collaboration between GNOD and Jennifer Reid, as well as weird theatre by Folklore Tapes presenting “Echoes of Light” - reflecting on the energies that bind us together…

From Dervish Whirling to films, guided rambles and lively afters, all helped along with nourishing organic scran and drafts+wine, we unearth the mysteries surrounding us with cymatic lighting, bells, sculpture, sacred stones & much more!

Our line up:

Friday
Gillan (opening ceremony), adam (dj), a.a.x't (live), Adam Higton (dj), AHRKH (dj)

Saturday
Folklore Tapes with Bridget Hayden & Mary Stark, Aisha Vaughan, Stone Report (film), Portico Library (Speakers: Alice McMahon & Dr Debbie Challis), David Bramwell (speaker), John Billingsley (speaker), Prof Rupert Till (speaker), Mark Wagner (speaker), Matthew Shaw (AV), Om Dhyna Circle Piece w/ AHRKH, Sonic Meditations Deep Listening with Katy Asbury, Scientific Rambles, Megalithic Transport Network, Lally MacBeth, "U" (AV), Zaffar Kunial (Poetry), Dan Thorman & Lou Zon (AV), Technology + Teamwork, Gillan (dj), Rizla (dj)

Sunday
GNOD with Jennifer Reid, Elspeth Anne, Thorn Wych, Free Party: A Folk History (film), Dr Jackie Anderson (talk), Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, The Vision Reels, Colin 'UFO' Lyall (speaker), Grey Frequency, Kelly Jayne Jones (audience piece), Mark Wagner & Mitra Zadno present: ‘Whirling into One’, Spaceship Mark with Sam McLoughlin and Dan Bridgwood Hill (live), Chris Goddard (walk), Colell (dj), Esmé (dj), Høleigh (dj), Hagva (dj)

Artists
Amy Payphone, Mr Gordo, Matt Girling, Jamie House

PA
Psion Systems

Visuals
Jamie House, Mark Wagner, Lou Zon, auratekh

Food + drinks
vie en rose & Imaginary Wines

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Opening & After Parties

Friday 9th - Opening ceremony at the fire pit in the graveyard, 6pm
Gillan will be opening the weekend at the fire pit in the graveyard behind the Unitarian Church. We encourage you to bring something to represent your time at Harmonicon and Tod, and place it on the shrine she will be preparing <3

Friday 9th - Opening party in Nan Moors, from 7pm
a.a.x't performs their Beton library, it's cut up, carved apart and grafted sounds playing over each other competing and harmonising, mechanically looping above the awful remains of technocrats. Adam Higton will play his strange and beautiful collection of psychedelic records to open up the proceedings.

Saturday 10th - Nan Moors from 9pm
'Rizla' of Bristol comes up to the valley along side Gillan to play transcendental cosmic frequency at high tempo till late at Nan Moors!

Sunday 11th - HARMONICON X Chitta at the Golden Lion from 7pm
Finally, on Sunday Harmonicon merges with Chitta to conclude the weekend festival gathering in togetherness, welcoming all kindred souls at The Golden Lion from 7pm to late. Colell will be opening b2b with Høleigh, and then ~ Hagva, of Millan ~ arrive to the valley as part of their UK debut tour. Founders & curators of label Stagno Record. The gathering will finalise with local vinyl selector ~ Esmé ~ who will delight with her thoughtful & unique selection of records, the perfect final chapter ceremony to the weekend.

Happy day!