| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 1-Oct-2012 Kings Place: Hall Two | Tableaux vivants with notes inégales at Kings Place |
“What is a score?” This was the question posed last night in Kings Place, Hall Two, by the effervescent ensemble who style themselves as notes inégales. Under the directorship of Peter Wiegold, six instrumentalists brought together a programme of improvisational works that responded to computer-generated scores on a large screen.Read full review... | |
| 17-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 47: John Cage night |
Now they know how many cacti it takes to fill the Albert Hall. Last night’s marathon John Cage Prom finished up, over three hours after it had started, with a wonderfully cactus-heavy performance of Branches (1976). Played by Robyn Schulkowsky and 20 more musicians scattered broadly around the hall, Branches involved copious amplified cactus-plucking as well as plenty more soft sounds thoughtfully extracted from a range of natural, foresty items such as sticks and twigs.Read full review... | |
| 20-Mar-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Bang on a Can: Field Recordings at the Barbican |
Bang on a Can were gentle with their London audience last night, giving the UK première of their Field Recordings project, a sequence of nine new compositions which all involved recorded sound or video samples. Some of these samples were old, and some were new; some were musical, and some were not; but all were performed with the rhythmical intensity and verve one expects from this ensemble, and the programme gelled together to form a relaxed, compelling and oddly coherent whole.
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