Happy New Year! This Saturday, our longtime friend and collaborator @elainemitchener1 returns to @wigmore_hall with Pat Thomas and Shamica Ruddock.
Part One: SOLO THROAT remixed – vox with live electronics drawing on material from Elaine Mitchener’s album.
Part Two: new works for voice and tape, fixed media and electronics, to include works by Jessie Cox, Laure M Hiendl, Yvette Janine Jackson, Loré Lixenberg, Amadeus Julian Regucera and Corie Rose Soumah.
Some £5 for under 35 tickets are available now if you’re quick!
Tomorrow night we offer an incredibly rare chance to experience the feral polyphony of Nancarrow’s studies for player piano at @wigmore_hall . Utterly bonkers, joyful, terrifying music, boogie-woogie pile ups and canons of (literally) a hundred notes a second. Dominic Murcott unleashes these scrolls — Studies 25 and 36 pictured above — on a replica of Nancarrow’s own instrument.
Final tickets available now via the link in our bio! 🤖
This Thursday 20 November at @wigmore_hall experience Hanne Darboven’s chugging, soothing, existentially terrifying ‘Opus 17a’. Few artists have used mathematical procedures to create such transcendental states. George Barton from @gbsrduo will render this masterwork for the first time ever on… the drum kit lol (sorry!!)
Tickets from just £5, not long to go now!
‘Who was the first algorithmic composer?’, out today in the @financialtimes (link in bio). The Artist Is Not Present, this Thursday 20 November at @wigmore_hall . Tickets from just £5.
Next Thursday 20 Nov, Jennifer Walshe @milker_corporation returns to @wigmore_hall to give the world premiere of her ‘Slop Studies 2#a-7’ with @explore_ensemble , plus works by two mysterious Irish composers Eyleif Mullen-White (1937-1988) and Caoimhín Breathnach (1934-2009), both algorithmic pioneers.
Join Jenny and LCMF Co-Director Igor Toronyi Lalic from 6.30pm for a pre-concert discussion about AI and proto-AI art. Check out Jenny’s essay ‘13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art and Music’ now via the link in our bio.
Tickets start at just £5, don’t miss out
Photo: @dawid.laskowski.photography
We’re back at @wigmore_hall on 20 Nov with a work we’ve been dying to programme for years: Clarence Barlow’s ‘Im Januar Am Nil’. Truly mind bending music, a glistening, hypnotic game of microtonal Twister. This is a bucket list moment for us — do not miss @explore_ensemble bring this criminally overlooked composer’s magnum opus to life.
Tickets start at just £5 🎲
LCMF is BACK for ONE NIGHT ONLY at @wigmore_hall
The Artist Is Not Present • 20 November • Jennifer Walshe, Hanne Darboven, Conlon Nancarrow, Clarence Barlow, Mozart (?)
£5 for under 35s
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This Saturday lunchtime at @wigmore_hall , the UK premiere of our friend @laure.m.hiendl ’s drifting post-minimalist epic ‘“Seht meine Wunden und an meinen Beinen, die Narben meiner Wunden” (denn wir sind lange gewandert)’. Those who remember their collaboration with @_jackobrien_ at LCMF 2024 will already know how special this music is. Tickets start at just £5, don’t miss out, link in bio!
Conducted by LCMF Co-Director @jackfrsheen and performed by our pals @explore_ensemble .
‘“See my wounds and on my legs, the scars of my wounds” (for we have long wandered)’.
Photos of @fabrikquartet Trio at @camdenartcentre by Patrick Young.
“To drift is to throw yourself at chance; to escape the demands of velocity and conscious shaping. You step neither forward nor back but sideways. There’s no getting away from the feeling of drift in Hiendl’s work. Always the same, never the same: the music floats and meanders and roams who knows where.“
— Igor Toronyi-Lalic
Tonight, the world premiere of ‘OCCAM DELTA XXIII’ by Éliane Radigue & Carol Robinson at @wigmore_hall , an LCMF / Wigmore Hall / Ensemble Klang co-commission especially to close out LET’S CREATE. Sold out for weeks, but a broadcast will be coming very soon.
Slide 2 shows Éliane with Yves Klein at 9 Parc de la Californie, Nice, c.1956.
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Our final concert at the Wigmore Hall on Friday, which will see the Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners visit the UK for the first time in 110 years, is sold out. But we are opening up our rehearsals to the public for one day only!
Rehearsals take place at 180 The Strand TOMORROW (Thursday 16 January). To access the rehearsals add your name to the list – follow the link in bio – and come to the Surrey Street entrance.
See you soon 😘
