| World Premiere Performance of "ROOM"
by Southampton Composer Benjamin Mawson
Monday 12 December , 6-7pm / Free / No booking required
“Room” is an ambitious new composition by Benjamin Mawson, composer and virtual performance developer, and Postgraduate Research Student in Music at the University of Southampton.
Taking the premise of Alvin Lucier's iconic 1969 sound work "I am sitting in a room" the composer turns the sounds of his speaking voice into instruments of a virtual orchestra in the digital studio.
Constructed in layers that interweave and develop over time and throughout the space in which they are heard, each audition is unique as the listener moves around within the soundscape. Firmly connected to history and memory, this music examines the relations between the remembered, learned and imagined, as fleeting glimpses of continually shifting soundworlds encircle each other.
Further information:
http://benmawson.com/
Bang the Bore XI:
Psychobabble
Featuring Glyphs, Melanie O'Dubhslaine, Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, After the Rain, Hossein Hadisi, Co-Fragilities, BtBarbershop Quartet and Pauline Oliveros' Tuning Meditation
Saturday 17 December / 7 – 10pm
Free / No booking required
Following the astounding Bang the Bore X: Zone of Alienation in conjunction with the exhibition Jane and Louise Wilson, Bang the Bore's latest experimental music event, Psychobabble, has been developed in conjunction with Terry Smith: Parallax. The evening will see little in the
way of instruments; instead, it will foreground
a variety of approaches to singing and
vocalisation. In the words of bangthebore:
"Smith's art uses very few objects and frequently features the human voice; accordingly, Psychobabble will use very little in the way of musical instruments and will foreground a variety of approaches to singing and vocalisation. And to make up for our last event Zone of Alienation, which featured only three performances, this time we're bursting at the seams with eight acts packed into a mere three hours...
Glyphs
Somewhere between scatological and glossological, this Southampton/Brighton vocal duo features Steve Goodall of dogeeseseegod and Dan Palmer of Discipline, McNorton 4 and Garner.
myspace.com/glyphglyphs
Melanie O'Dubhslaine
Known for her work in Ashtray Navigations, Ocelocelot and Sculptress, O'Dubhslaine blurs the line between her voice and clarinet using extended technique and a voice synthesizer.
discogs.com/artist/Ocelocelot
Xenis Emputae Travelling Band
Erstwhile member of AshNavs and founder of Almias Rural Psychogeography, Phil Legard's ensemble will deliver a performance of vowel singing inspired by the work of Peter Michael Hamel and Joscelyn Godwin.
larkfall.co.uk/read.html
After the Rain
Composer, improviser and teacher Ignacio Agrimbau's ensemble, featuring Hossein Hadisi and Joe Kelly, deliver a voice-centric performance blending prerecorded material with treated and untreated singing.
ignacioagrimbau.com
Hossein Hadisi
An extraordinary singer and multi-instrumentalist, Hadisi's music fuses the contemporary avant garde with traditional Persian influences. At Psychobabble he will perform a piece based on the Muslim rite of prayer.
hosseinhadisi.com
Ideas for an Omnipresent Group
Composed by Adam Denton; performed by Co-Fragilities
The ad-hoc vocal group Co-Fragilities will be performing Adam Denton's score Ideas for an Omnipresent Group, in which notions of the absent performer are explored via quadrophonic sound and mobile phones.
co-fragilities.tumblr.com
BtBarbershop Quartet
Featuring the treated and untreated voices of Bang the Bore janitors Seth Cooke, Clive Henry and Kev Nickells alongside the dulcet tones of dogeeseseegod's Waggs Muldowney.
bangthebore.org
Tuning Meditation
Composed by Pauline Oliveros; conducted by Kev Nickells; performed by audience volunteers
"Inhale deeply; exhale on the note of your choice; listen to the sounds around you, and match your next note to one of them; on your next breath make a note no one else is making; repeat. Call it listening out loud."
paulineoliveros.us/
The music played during the intervals will be taken from Prima Materia's 1977 album The Tail of the Tiger and Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1968 composition Stimmung, while twenty-five printed copies of the bangthebore.org article The Glossolinguist will be made available to audience members who arrive fashionably early."
bangthebore.org
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