28 October – 1 November 2026 — Springhead, Fontmell Magna, Dorset

What happens when we listen to the world around us – and beyond us – through music?

The 2026 Constellation Symposium: Music, Land & the Cosmos brings together musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers and practitioners for five days of performances, conversations, experiments and exchange at Springhead in Dorset.

This year’s symposium looks at our relationship with the land from both an intimate and a planetary perspective: from the landscapes and ecosystems immediately around us to the much larger questions raised by our exploration of space. Through music and interdisciplinary practice, the programme asks how we perceive and interpret the natural world, how technology changes that relationship, and what responsibilities we carry as we look beyond Earth.

At the heart of the Symposium is a belief that music can be more than an illustration of these questions. It can become a way of investigating them – translating data into sound, revealing patterns and timescales beyond ordinary human perception, and creating encounters between artistic intuition and scientific enquiry.

An international Open Call invited artists and interdisciplinary creators to propose work responding to Music, Land & the Cosmos. Selected projects will be developed and presented at Springhead alongside talks, performances and conversations, bringing different disciplines into direct dialogue with one another.

The Symposium culminates in a public day on Sunday 1 November, inviting audiences to experience the ideas, performances and collaborations that have emerged during the week