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www.bmic.co.uk/recoverydiscovery
Monday, February 16 at 8:25am - Cycles and Scenas: Claire Bo...
Concert Hall, Cardiff University Sc...
Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30pm - Smith Quartet
Artix
Friday, February 27 at 8:00pm - Mary Dullea / Julia Bardsley
Birmingham Frontiers
Monday, February 9 at 7:30pm - Cycles and Scenas: Claire Bo...
Artix
Friday, January 30 at 8:00pm - Kürbis
The Warehouse
Thursday, November 27 at 7:30pm - Plus Minus
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Fes...
Sunday, November 23 at 7:30pm - the house of bedlam
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Fes...
Friday, November 21 at 10:30pm - Black Hair
The Warehouse
Thursday, November 20 at 7:30pm - Smith Quartet
Woodend Barn Arts Centre
Sunday, November 16 at 3:00pm
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Sound and Music is the coming together of four organisations to create the UK’s first national development agency for sound and music. * British Music Information Centre (BMIC) * Contemporary Music Network (CMN) * Sonic Arts Network (SAN) * SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Music) By joining forc...es we want to grow into being an organisation of international standing and hopefully of great repute (time will tell). Sound and Music will be working in partnership with artists and organisations across the UK and Northern Ireland to enable more people than ever to engage with the wonder of sound and music. Read More
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British Music Information Centre Voices Composer Raymond Yiu collaborates with virtuoso pianist Lang Lang
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What is music?For some people it is a Beatles track, for others it�s a Beethoven Symphony. But what about electronic music, where sounds are recorded to tape and the performance of a piece consists ...
British Music Information Centre Lieven Bertels and Peter Zinovieff discuss Recovery/Discovery
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Ivan Hewett presents new British chamber music with electronics.
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Bmic announces its first release as Sound and Music: Recovery/Discovery, a compilation CD/sound DVD based around one of the first major ‘surround sound’ pieces in the UK, Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Chronometer. Recovery/Discovery, a project funded by the British Council, brings together a quadraphonic version of Birtwis...tle’s pivotal piece, which was up until recently believed to have been lost, alongside major electronic works by Jonathan Harvey, Javier Alvarez and Mira Calix in surround format.
Today’s feature films, sports TV broadcasts and computer games soundtracks all have surround sound that can be brought into the living room, but previously the use of the direction of sounds and their movement in space remained limited to specialised concert set-ups and the limited circles of hi-fi buffs. Many successful electronic works, such as the ones on this CD/DVD, were only released on stereo CDs, even if they had elaborate spatial distribution in their concert versions. Indeed the original quadraphonic version of Chronometer had all but disappeared into oblivion until the Artistic Coordinator of the Holland Festival, Lieven Bertels, initiated a search for it in 2006:
Featuring sound recordings of Big Ben and the Wells clock from London’s Science Museum, Chronometer was one of the most complex electronic music endeavours of all time. The recovery operation was the stimulus to ask what other works could complement Chronometer in the context of being the first major ‘surround sound’ piece in the UK, and in particular focusing on its exploration of the mechanisms of recording time.
Jonathan Harvey’s Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980) is a quintessential part of the British electronic repertoire and a beautiful tribute to the British choral tradition, its many cathedrals and the bell ringing associated with them. The piece, which was made at the IRCAM studios in Paris, sets up a dramatic interplay between the deathly peeling bells (recorded at Winchester Cathedral) and a lone chorister’s voice singing a text found on one of the bells, revealing the contrasting forces of life versus death and is, according to the composer, symbolic of the battle of the human spirit to penetrate the intimidating world of the machine.
Although Javier Alvarez is a Mexican composer, it is his electronic piece Temazcal, composed at the Royal College of Music in London in 1984, that is perhaps his most successful to date, and one of the party pieces of the ‘live+electronic’ repertoire worldwide. The piece for surround tape and live maracas, inspired by the likes of Stephen Montague and Trevor Wishart, shows an ear-opening eclecticism and a fresh sound that even today sounds new and exciting. For this release percussionist Joby Burgess made a new high resolution surround recording of the live maracas part.
Mira Calix is a UK-based composer and DJ in the UK signed to the WARP label. Her piece Nunu Wadudu (2008) uses the sounds of London Sinfonietta players and a swarm of live insects, scratches, scrapings, buzzing wings and crickets, to create a delicate yet refreshing live+electronics surround soundscape that has received worldwide public acclaim since its première. Read More
Today’s feature films, sports TV broadcasts and computer games soundtracks all have surround sound that can be brought into the living room, but previously the use of the direction of sounds and their movement in space remained limited to specialised concert set-ups and the limited circles of hi-fi buffs. Many successful electronic works, such as the ones on this CD/DVD, were only released on stereo CDs, even if they had elaborate spatial distribution in their concert versions. Indeed the original quadraphonic version of Chronometer had all but disappeared into oblivion until the Artistic Coordinator of the Holland Festival, Lieven Bertels, initiated a search for it in 2006:
Featuring sound recordings of Big Ben and the Wells clock from London’s Science Museum, Chronometer was one of the most complex electronic music endeavours of all time. The recovery operation was the stimulus to ask what other works could complement Chronometer in the context of being the first major ‘surround sound’ piece in the UK, and in particular focusing on its exploration of the mechanisms of recording time.
Jonathan Harvey’s Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980) is a quintessential part of the British electronic repertoire and a beautiful tribute to the British choral tradition, its many cathedrals and the bell ringing associated with them. The piece, which was made at the IRCAM studios in Paris, sets up a dramatic interplay between the deathly peeling bells (recorded at Winchester Cathedral) and a lone chorister’s voice singing a text found on one of the bells, revealing the contrasting forces of life versus death and is, according to the composer, symbolic of the battle of the human spirit to penetrate the intimidating world of the machine.
Although Javier Alvarez is a Mexican composer, it is his electronic piece Temazcal, composed at the Royal College of Music in London in 1984, that is perhaps his most successful to date, and one of the party pieces of the ‘live+electronic’ repertoire worldwide. The piece for surround tape and live maracas, inspired by the likes of Stephen Montague and Trevor Wishart, shows an ear-opening eclecticism and a fresh sound that even today sounds new and exciting. For this release percussionist Joby Burgess made a new high resolution surround recording of the live maracas part.
Mira Calix is a UK-based composer and DJ in the UK signed to the WARP label. Her piece Nunu Wadudu (2008) uses the sounds of London Sinfonietta players and a swarm of live insects, scratches, scrapings, buzzing wings and crickets, to create a delicate yet refreshing live+electronics surround soundscape that has received worldwide public acclaim since its première. Read More
New CD/DVD featuring Birtwistle's Chronometer in Surround
Time:8:25AM Monday, February 16th
Location:www.bmic.co.uk/recoverydiscovery
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Sound and Music is the coming together of four organisations to create the UK’s first national development agency for sound and music. * British Music Information Centre (BMIC) * Contemporary Music Network (CMN) * Sonic Arts Network (SAN) * SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Music) By joining forc...es we want to grow into being an organisation of international standing and hopefully of great repute (time will tell). Sound and Music will be working in partnership with artists and organisations across the UK and Northern Ireland to enable more people than ever to engage with the wonder of sound and music. Read More
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This page celebrates the life and work of composer Gilbert Vinter (1909-69, note NOT 'Vintner' - a common error) whose centenary year is 2009.
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Stephen Montague — Strummin'
Rolf Hind — The Towers of Silence
Frank Lyons — New Work WP
Andrew Poppy — Periscope
Joe Cutler — Clavinova Music
Jennifer Walshe — Faster, Faster, Pussy Cat, Kill, Kill, Kill
Ed Bennett — New Work WP
George Crumb — Five Pieces for Piano
Irish pianist Mary Dullea's fascinating program...me explores extended use of the piano, from the colouristic keyboard writing of Pavel Szymanski and the virtuoso demands of Benedict Mason to music from inside the instrument by George Crumb and Stephen Montague. Recent works from Rolf Hind and Joe Cutler bring us bang up to date— all heightened by stunning visuals and live projections by Julia Bardsley.
Tickets: £5 (£3 concessions)
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Rolf Hind — The Towers of Silence
Frank Lyons — New Work WP
Andrew Poppy — Periscope
Joe Cutler — Clavinova Music
Jennifer Walshe — Faster, Faster, Pussy Cat, Kill, Kill, Kill
Ed Bennett — New Work WP
George Crumb — Five Pieces for Piano
Irish pianist Mary Dullea's fascinating program...me explores extended use of the piano, from the colouristic keyboard writing of Pavel Szymanski and the virtuoso demands of Benedict Mason to music from inside the instrument by George Crumb and Stephen Montague. Recent works from Rolf Hind and Joe Cutler bring us bang up to date— all heightened by stunning visuals and live projections by Julia Bardsley.
Tickets: £5 (£3 concessions)
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piano and visuals
Time:7:30PM Monday, February 9th
Location:Birmingham Frontiers
British Music Information Centre Photos from Black Hair's performance in the London Cutting edge series, 2008
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Andrew Poppy — How the Hammers Felt
Donnacha Dennehy —Paddy
Joe Cutler — Sikorski B
Jakob ter Veldhuis — Grab It!
Jonathan Powell — Drempel
Paul Newland — Trance
Michel van der Aa — Just Before
Howard Skempton — In Tandem
Dave Price — Lee Games 2
Noszferatu will perform a programme of energetic and subversive... new music for ensemble and electronics. The focus tonight will be on new music from Ireland— Ed Bennett, Garrett Sholdice (New Work) and Donnacha Dennehy, the dynamic music of Joe Cutler and the theatrical mischief of UK-based German composer Michael Wolters.
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Donnacha Dennehy —Paddy
Joe Cutler — Sikorski B
Jakob ter Veldhuis — Grab It!
Jonathan Powell — Drempel
Paul Newland — Trance
Michel van der Aa — Just Before
Howard Skempton — In Tandem
Dave Price — Lee Games 2
Noszferatu will perform a programme of energetic and subversive... new music for ensemble and electronics. The focus tonight will be on new music from Ireland— Ed Bennett, Garrett Sholdice (New Work) and Donnacha Dennehy, the dynamic music of Joe Cutler and the theatrical mischief of UK-based German composer Michael Wolters.
http://noszferatu.com
www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk Read More
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Edwin Roxburgh — ‘...at the still point of the turning world…’
Claudia Molitor — I think it’s in here WP
James Weeks — Burnham Air WP
Christopher Fox — Broadway Boogie
Archbold / Redgate — Improvisation WP
Michael Young — oboe_prosthesis LP
Helmut Zapf — Canto dell Aria
Jonathan Harvey — Ricercare una Melodia
Ed...gy new work created from the spliced and splintered oboe— the exotic, multifarious sonorities perfected by Chris Redgate are transformed by the latest computer technology manipulated by Paul Archbold. A concert featuring newly composed work, experimental improvisation and two historic electroacoustic works.
WP=World Première
UKP=UK Première
LP=London Première
http://www.bmic.co.uk/concerts/CE2008Read More
Claudia Molitor — I think it’s in here WP
James Weeks — Burnham Air WP
Christopher Fox — Broadway Boogie
Archbold / Redgate — Improvisation WP
Michael Young — oboe_prosthesis LP
Helmut Zapf — Canto dell Aria
Jonathan Harvey — Ricercare una Melodia
Ed...gy new work created from the spliced and splintered oboe— the exotic, multifarious sonorities perfected by Chris Redgate are transformed by the latest computer technology manipulated by Paul Archbold. A concert featuring newly composed work, experimental improvisation and two historic electroacoustic works.
WP=World Première
UKP=UK Première
LP=London Première
http://www.bmic.co.uk/concerts/CE2008Read More
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Alun Hoddinott — One Must Always Have Love
Robert Fokkens — Africa WP
Oliver Knussen — Whitman Settings
Philip Cashian — new work WP
Arlene Sierra — new work WP
Benjamin Britten — On this Island
This recital is truly a labour of love. The outstanding performers have a personal connection to nearly every piece in ...their programme— Robert Fokken's new work was especially written for the duo, as too are Arlene Sierra and Philip Cashian's works which will be premiered tonight. Claire Booth has established a long standing collaboration with Oliver Knussen and here she performs his Whitman Settings while Andrew Matthews-Owen has championed the work of his compatriot Alun Hoddinott for a number of year, all the more poignant as the performers have dedicated this recital to the Welsh composer's memory. Completing the evening is Benjamin Britten's landmark collaboration with W H Auden— On this Island. Read More
Robert Fokkens — Africa WP
Oliver Knussen — Whitman Settings
Philip Cashian — new work WP
Arlene Sierra — new work WP
Benjamin Britten — On this Island
This recital is truly a labour of love. The outstanding performers have a personal connection to nearly every piece in ...their programme— Robert Fokken's new work was especially written for the duo, as too are Arlene Sierra and Philip Cashian's works which will be premiered tonight. Claire Booth has established a long standing collaboration with Oliver Knussen and here she performs his Whitman Settings while Andrew Matthews-Owen has championed the work of his compatriot Alun Hoddinott for a number of year, all the more poignant as the performers have dedicated this recital to the Welsh composer's memory. Completing the evening is Benjamin Britten's landmark collaboration with W H Auden— On this Island. Read More
Cutting Edge Tour 2008
Time:7:30PM Tuesday, March 3rd
Location:Concert Hall, Cardiff University School of Music
British Music Information Centre Alan, we did make some copies of a number of Gordon Crosse's works last year for Dr. John Marsden, who I understand is helping Gordon create an archive of his works. If you've got any enquires I'd be happy to pass them on, either by messaging me or emailing info@bmic.co.uk
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Alun Hoddinott — One Must Always Have Love
Robert Fokkens — Africa
Oliver Knussen — Whitman Settings
Phil Cashian — new work WP
Arlene Sierra — new work WP
Benjamin Britten — On this Island
This recital is truly a labour of love. The outstanding performers have a personal connection to nearly every piece in thei...r programme— Robert Fokken's new work was especially written for the duo, as too are Arlene Sierra and Philip Cashian's works which will be premiered tonight. Claire Booth has established a long standing collaboration with Oliver Knussen and here she performs his Whitman Settings while Andrew Matthews-Owen has championed the work of his compatriot Alun Hoddinott for a number of year, all the more poignant as the performers have dedicated this recital to the Welsh composer's memory. Completing the evening is Benjamin Britten's landmark collaboration with W H Auden— On this Island . Read More
Robert Fokkens — Africa
Oliver Knussen — Whitman Settings
Phil Cashian — new work WP
Arlene Sierra — new work WP
Benjamin Britten — On this Island
This recital is truly a labour of love. The outstanding performers have a personal connection to nearly every piece in thei...r programme— Robert Fokken's new work was especially written for the duo, as too are Arlene Sierra and Philip Cashian's works which will be premiered tonight. Claire Booth has established a long standing collaboration with Oliver Knussen and here she performs his Whitman Settings while Andrew Matthews-Owen has championed the work of his compatriot Alun Hoddinott for a number of year, all the more poignant as the performers have dedicated this recital to the Welsh composer's memory. Completing the evening is Benjamin Britten's landmark collaboration with W H Auden— On this Island . Read More
Cutting Edge Tour 2009
Time:8:00PM Friday, January 30th
Location:Artix
