THE FIRST METHOD MUSIC CONCERT was heard at the 7th Planet Tree Music Festival - details of the concerts, many of which were webcast, are below,
THE 7TH PLANET TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL..
Celebrate a huge spectrum of undiscovered contemporary classical and world music, with other arts media....
Pete Townshend, patron...
April 20th-April 25th 2007...
A tonal contemporary music festival based in London, presenting the non-commercial/high quality face of new musical sound.
at Pete Townshend's Oceanic Studios and private venues.
"Uncompromising in its artistic integrity, this festival is a rare and cherished event" Terry Riley.
web cast: http://www.eelpie.com and click on towser TV
http://www.myspace.com/planettreemusic
http://www.planettree.org
FRIDAY 20 APRIL 6.30pm-9pm and
Saturday 21 April 11am-3pm
private venue call 0207 794 8880 free admission.
Multi-media event - "ANONYMOUS WORDS" by Genie Poretsky-Lee.
A gallery environment in which to immerse yourself. Words and voices in an interactive setting. An enchanted sensory space.
Genie Poretsky-Lee, artist, Lawrence Ball soundscape.
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SATURDAY 21 APRIL 3.30pm.
private venue call 0208 245 8772 or 0208 444 6409 £10 (£7 concessions).
"SPRING TIDES" - Linda Muddiman Rose, dance with accompanying musicians.
Grey clouds are blown away by gentle breaths … refreshing, renewing, revitalising that which was. Sea, sky and landscapes are all viewed with a clear eye whilst yellow flowers dance. A dance event for new birth, changing currents, new tides heralding positive life. Linda is an innovative dance-artist inspired by tribal cultures and nature. She has documented her creative journey within her book "Spiralling Home Turtle Dancing".
Linda Muddiman-Rose dance; Eddy Sayer gongs, percussion, dulcimer; Manickam Yogesawaran, voice; Lawrence Ball, piano,synthesizer.
http://www.spirallinghometurtledancing.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/eddysayer
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Saturday 21 April 7.30pm.
private venue call 0208 444 6409 or 01452 413220 £8 (£5 concessions).
The Music of Jean Catoire.
The world of Catoire (1923-2005) is an undiscovered continent. He has written 484 hours of music, most of which has never been heard. But with its meditative resonances it predates Part and Tavener by a decade and anticipated minimalism via a chromatic geometry of chords and intervals. This concert, as a memorial to his passing, is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in an exquisitely sacred sound world.
Programme: Sonata for flute and piano VIII, Op.301; Sonata for 2 flutes, Op. 158; Sonata for clarinet and piano III, Op.445; Sonata for solo voice, Op. 195; Sonata for Piano XI, Op. 206(with synth sounds).
James D'Angelo, piano; Christine Turellier, flute; Maxine Willis, flute; Stephen Bennett, clarinet; Camilla Otaki, soprano.
http://www.lephenomenesonore.com/english/index.php
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SUNDAY 22 APRIL 3.30pm.
Oceanic Studios, Twickenham £10 (£7 concessions) and webcast.
Piano recital by Jonathan Powell.
Jonathan Powell has established himself as one of the most accomplished, daring and sensitive pianists of his generation. As comfortable performing Romantic sonatas as the most radical contemporary works, Powell has been credited with a virtuosic technique as well as profound insights into composers' thoughts.
Programme: Charles Ives, Celestial Railroad; John White, Sonata no.138; Väinö Raitio, Neljä värirunoelmaa, op.22 (1921); Kaikhosru Sorabji: Prelude and Fugue (world première), Djami (nocturne); Radames Gnattali Chôros; Joseph Marx, Klavierstuck (world première); Charles Tournemire, 4 Préludes-poèmes; Sergei Protopopov, Sonata no.2
http://www.altarusrecords.com/ArtistpageJPowell.html
http://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/
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Sunday 22 April 7.30pm.
Oceanic Studios, Twickenham £10 (£7 concessions) and webcast.
North, South, West. a concert dedicated to peace in Sri Lanka.
Music performed on North and South Indian raga scales.
Lisa Sangita Moskow, on North Indian electric sarod, trained in North Indian classical music with maestro Ali Akbar Khan for more than 15 years, and has specialized in East- West collaborations since the late seventies.
Manickam Yogeswaran is a Sri Lanka-born Tamil musician who specialises in South India's classical tradition known as Carnatic music, as well as working with world music and The Shout, a big voice ensemble.
Lawrence Ball has developed raga scale performances with both Lisa and Yoga over several years.
performers: Manickam Yogeswaran, voice; Lisa Sangita Moskow, sarod; Lawrence Ball, piano and synthesizer; Camilo Tirado, tabla.
http://www.myspace.com/manickamyogeswaran
http://www.lisasangitamoskow.com
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MONDAY 23 APRIL 7.30pm.
Oceanic Studios, Twickenham £10 (£7 concessions) and webcast.
1) Sleep Around Beauty - a musical/play. 2) Piano recital by Ben Solomon.
Programme: The Wyatt & Chi songwriting team present 'Sleep Around Beauty'. The beautiful July, played by Jackie Sterling, tells the story of her life with the help of lyrical and melodic commentary from the men she has loved and left along the way - songs performed by Paul Chi, script and lyrics by Eliza Wyatt. Ben Solomon will play a selection of his recorded and more recent compositions. His is an original voice, his music sits firmly on the classical side of the fusion fence. Ben and Eliza are key members, (and Paul the founder) of the Healthy Concerts scene in Brighton, small groups of people gathering locally in modest sized venues.
http://www.myspace.com/elizawyattmusic http://www.healthyconcerts.com http://www.bensolomon.co.uk
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TUESDAY 24 APRIL 7.30pm.
Oceanic Studios, Twickenham £10 (£7 concessions) and webcast.
Music by Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) and by Lawrence Ball.
Hovhaness’s best music (1944 to c.1970) reveals a unique and thoroughly convincing assimilation of highly disparate traditions coming to the fore and receding over the course of his career (e.g. Renaissance polyphony, South Indian classical music, Japanese Gagaku music, Korean Ah-ak music). In Hovhaness they find perhaps the most seamless alchemy of all because it was a musical engagement on an aesthetic as well as technical level. Hovhaness influenced Lawrence Ball who presents two pieces from each of the 80s and the 90s.
Programme: Lawrence Ball, String Quartet no.1 op.66, Piano Suite no.3 op.109; Alan Hovhaness, Bagatelles (for string quartet), String Quartet no.1, Two Ghazals, Orbit No.2, Mystic Flute, Pastoral No.1, Jhala, Achtamar, Vanadour, Farewell to the Mountains
Performers: Mark Swartzentruber, piano; The Jopling String Quartet.
http://www.solorecords.com http://www.orlandojopling.com
http://www.hovhaness.com
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WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 7.30pm.
Oceanic Studios, Twickenham £15 (£9 concessions) and webcast.
METHOD MUSIC CONCERT.
Programme: Live elaborations on the music on the album "Method Music - Imaginary Sitters, Imaginary Galaxies" set for release as download the same day........plus a spontaneous live demonstration of Method music portrait generation over the web
performers: Lawrence Ball, piano and synthesizer; Manickam Yogeswaran, voice; Eddy Sayer, percussion.
http://www.myspace.com/lifehousemethod
http://www.myspace.com/eddysayer
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programme details are correct at the time of going to press. In unavoidable circumstances the Planet Tree Music Festival reserves the right to alter the artists or programme.
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'...the ever-progressive Planet Tree Music Festival.' The Observer...
Festival director: Lawrence Ball...
http://www.myspace.com/lawrenceballmusic
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Booking:
by mail: for the Method concert on 25th April evening only, please send a cheque payable to Lawrence Ball at 7 Rowan, 48 Muswell Road, London N10 2BX...
in person: for all events at the event, just prior to the performance
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Oceanic Studios, The Boathouse, Ranelagh Drive, Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 1QZ
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Directions to Oceanic from Richmond Station (overland (silver Link and Waterloo lines) and underground - district line) are as follows:
Left along quadrant (busy high street) watch out for Jigsaw on your right,...
turn right on Dukes Street until you hit the GREEN, cross the GREEN diagonally and take Old Palace Lane.
At the end of that is the River, turn right and go under two bridges until you come to the turquoise painted one.
You can WALK over that (walk only) and you can see the studio on its right, the building with the iron boat (barge) in front of it.......
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Webcast http://www.eelpie.com and click on Towser TV
LIFEHOUSE-METHOD GALLERY NOW FEATURES MUSIC AND PROFILES BY SELECTED SITTERS: http://www.lifehouse-method.com/gallery.html ...............................................
LIFEHOUSE METHOD is a collaboration between rock musician Pete Townshend, composer/mathematician Lawrence Ball and software designer Dave Snowdon, which realises a concept first-explored in Townshend’s Lifehouse project wherein participants’ (‘sitters’) inputs are then turned into computer data and used to create a unique musical portrait. Sitters use a photo significant to them, make a vocal sound, an instrumental sound and tap a rhythm. There is the provision to choose and use input from pre-prepared images and sounds. The inputs are not used musically, but as an interface with the personal world of the sitter. So far over 7500 pieces have been generated, and a lot of excitement.
It went live on May 1st. More information about Lifehouse Method can be found by visiting http://www.lifehouse-method.com.
RELEASE OF ALBUM - Method Music is available now on iTunes
Lawrence Ball and Pete Townshend have released this album of musical portraits called ‘Method Music, Imaginary Sitters, Imaginary Galaxies’, three of which are sampled here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
STOP PRESS: FREE ALBUM "43 SHORT PIANO PIECES" is available at Lawrence Ball recordings. To download you can save the files if you ctrl-click (on macintosh, right click on windows) on the word "download" and select the option to save the link target to file. My download SHOP is live at Lawrence Ball e-shop - also samples of a lot of the tracks - GO TO THE NOTES FOR EACH TRACK AND LOOK FOR THE PLAYBACK TRIANGLE. There are 6 further single albums and 1 double album up so far. I hope to also include collaborative albums - I have a lot of work recorded over the last 36 years, none of which has been released other than by my own mail order system, and much not at all. Tracks available separately rather than as album purchases. YOU CAN DEFINITELY USE CREDIT CARDS ALTHOUGH IT IS HANDLED VIA PAYPAL
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Available on Rhapsody, Amazon, Trackitdown etc. in mp3 format and on Juno in wav/mp3 format. By the september 15th it should be available in all major digital stores including our website.
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