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Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.

Musical instruments probe the inner game of a film by Tarkovsky, plumbing memories and dreams in the UK premiere of Steven Daverson’s Â鶹ԼÅÄ co-commission. A computer-created bird erupts, singing, into the middle of a symphony orchestra in Misato Mochizuki’s work exploring the common thread between brains, instrusions and interactions. And Tristan Murail invokes Indian myths and electronic inspiration to rediscover – in ravishing orchestral sound – a whole continent that has been lost (or might never even have existed).

Sounds impossible? Well, that’s what this Total Immersion day is about. Murail’s 1980 spectralist classic Gondwana helped define a new method of creating sound, and a compelling new way of listening to it. Now, Ilan Volkov, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra, our composers and a team of virtuoso sound engineers follow his trail into that vast new world, and see where it’s taken us. You might be surprised…