Monday, 24 January 2011

RCM concert: Xenakis, Stockhausen, et al. Friday 11th Feb.

I just received an email from the Royal College of Music's KeyNote emailing list, announcing what's probably going to be the creamiest crop of the season. The concert features a couple percussive pieces from Iannis Xenakis, Greek engineer by education, architect by profession, turned composer after a period working in the workshop of French architect supreme Le Corbusier. His compositions merge stochastic processes and architectural forms into complex amalgamations of sound events to challenge even the most open minded listener.


Friday 11 February | 7.30pm | Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Freiburg Percussion Ensemble
RCM Percussion Faculty

IANNIS XENAKIS Claviers from Pleiades
DIETER MACK Jonico
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Zyklus
MARK APPLEBAUM Straitjacket
IANNIS XENAKIS Oeaux from Pleiades
NICOLAUS A HUBER Herbstfestival


Tickets are £5/£10 and can be purchased from https://www.boxoffice.rcm.ac.uk/

In case you don't get out much, the RCM is just behind Imperial College, between the student Union and the Royal Albert Hall.


Monday, 10 January 2011

110109 ep. 18 w/ AQUA DENTATA live

A very warm return from the holidays, bringing the first live session on the show, from the musical entity of artist/photographer Eddie Nuttall, Aqua Dentata. As I said after the show, like a sitar playing at the end of a tunnel in the dead of space, while you stand 100 metres away from its opening... In the words of one Freek de Ruiter, "no drugs needed". A broadening of your ear lobes, persuaded by the hums and jitters of electron movements, interferences from other worlds. Joined for a second set by myself on 5 string, retuned guitar.
Forgot to press On Air*... skip to 28:42

MUSLIMGAUZE Rhodesia
TANGERINE DREAM Rubycon Pt. One
MARCUS SCHMICKLER Wabi Sabi 4
BJØRN TORSKE Gullfjellet
APHEX TWIN Bbydhyonchord
MUSLIMGAUZE Mumbai Vibe Garden
SHACKELTON Man on a String, Pt. One
MARK ERNESTUS vs KONONO Nº1 Masikulu Dub
1000NAMES Private Hero
1000NAMES Pocket Calculators
INSTRA:MENTAL End Credits
···
AQUA DENTATA live ... @ 1:31:34
AQUA DENTATA + LO. BATT. jam ... @ 1:57:27
···
KASSEM MOSSE Workshop 08 A1
BENGE Adam-Age Loneliness
KIT CLAYTON Humbaba
SHACKLETON Man on a String, Pt. Two





*standard...