George Crumb, Arditti Quartet, Uncle Chris, Hot Chip, Melanie Pappenheim, Janacek, The Travelling Mouse, Dai Fujikura, Kronos Quartet, Keith Tippett, Ivor Cutler, Gabriel Prokofiev, Screamer On the Hill, Brodsky Quartet, Adem, Aurelio Tello, Simon Fisher Turner, Stravinsky, animals minding their own business...
We are a lovely quartet of stringed things. We play all types of music and noises (we're particularly good at the noises). Recently we've worked with Meredith Monk, supported and collaborated with Hot Chip, featured on the soundtrack to In The Loop, improvised with Damo Suzuki from Can at the Purcell Room, performed in New York and Texas, done a gig inside a volcano, collaborated with Adem, performed George Crumb's "Black Angels" in York, improvised soundtracks for beautiful old silent films at the BFI, played on the beach of the river Thames, travelled to Belgium to play a festival and scraped up the hire van, recorded the 2nd Gabriel Prokofiev album (out now on Nonclassical label!), improvised at a fire festival (Luminox) in a bandstand lit by fire, toured Britain with Adem/Richard Swift/Nina Nastasia, and recorded our own EP of our own music. You can buy it off us for a fiver here: ..................................................................................................................................................... Dominic Murcott:Installation For String Quartet - 1st Movement, film by Richard Coldman
Installation for String Quartet
Come and see a library like you have never seen it before!
Watch the books as they watch you, while actors, dancers, musicians and artists make their own journeys, finding their way around their surreal house of words...
Sit down, walk around, get as close as you wish to the action, as every corner you turn reveals a new surprise and if you are feeling brave - join in!
Dear friends, I am playing a free gig at the beauteous Union Chapel, Islington this Saturday. The sunlight will be streaming through its vaulted windows as Blank Canvas and Arctic Circle present this gig during the blessed daylight hours of 12-2. And yea shall its hallowed interior be filled with all manner of scraping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Let us pray. And then let us go to the pub.
Dear friends, I am playing a free gig at the beauteous Union Chapel, Islington this Saturday. The sunlight will be streaming through its vaulted windows as Blank Canvas and Arctic Circle present this gig during the blessed daylight hours of 12-2. And yea shall it's hallowed interior be filled with all manner of scraping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Let us pray. And then let us go to the pub.
Hi, It's Ricky from THE SLEEPS. If you love THE SLEEPS than repost our Cassette Tape Player for us to win the "ROCK THE SPACE" contest. Share this contest link with everyone:
Hi there! The Danish composer Per Nørgård's music has been much on my mind the past few years. Arguably the most important now living Scandinavian composer also has a remarkable output for the guitar. I spent a couple of years working with the composer on this repertoire, spanning from 1973 to 2000, in order to embrace the emerging performance practice associated with his work.
I have just uploaded 10 new tracks, all taken from "Tales From the North", my double CD box with the complete guitar works of Danish composer Per Nørgård. Also, in my latest blog you will find recent reviews of this release.
For further reading about the composer, this is an excellent website, with articles by a series of scholars and performers that have dedicated much study to his work:
Love your feel. Sounded good on the first Kela album and the Prokofiev Quartet is great too. Just read the article in Musician and thought I'd say hi. (Don't suppose Laura remembers me, Dan Warwick from York)
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