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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe OTO |
|---|---|
| P | Tuesday 21st May, 2013 |
| N | 8:00pm |
KAMMER KLANG: SEBASTIEN ROUX + JENNIFER WALSHE + RAILTON / CHADBURN
Tuesday 21st May 2013
Door Times : 8pm
Tickets £6 on the door/ advance
Kammer Klang marks its 3nd night in the 4th series with a programme of new music composed and performed by Jennifer Walshe and Sebastien Roux and a selection John Cage's 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 performed by Lucy Railton and Leo Chadburn.
SEBASTIEN ROUX - 'Inevitable Music' - a collection of pieces based on Sol Lewitt's Wall Drawings
In 2010, Roux visited DIA Beacon and experienced Sol Lewitt's wall drawings, each of which consists in a series of instructions executed by a team of draftspeople. Their combination of serial practises and simple geometric shapes impressed Roux for their inherent musicality, and he has sought a system to make these drawings listenable.
For 'Inevitable Music', Roux presents the audience with a line of 9 speakers. The session is a collection of pieces based on Lewitt's drawings and instructions, a series of short works that last from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. Some fragments are based on the same wall drawing, each proposing different variations. A pre-recorded voice gives the title of each piece, giving concise explanations of how each piece is made. Riffing on Lewitt's diagrams and instructions, which are displayed alongside their gallery installations, every sound used in the piece is introduced during the titles. Voices : Margot Bassett, Peter Sciscioli, DD Dorvillier. Recorded by Brendon Anderegg at Telescope Recording Studio, Brooklyn.
Born 1977, Sébastien Roux came to music as a guitarist in different rock groups until beginning a career as an electronic music composer, working along an eclectic variety of formal trajectories: records (solo as well as collaborations with Greg Davis, Vincent Epplay, and Eddie Ladoire), acousmatic music concerts, improvisations (with Kim Myhr and David Fennech), audiovisual performances (with Kurt D'Haeseleer), music for dance (collaborations with Lionel Hoche, DD Dorvillier and Sylvain Prunenec), radiophonic art (he was awarded the Radio Art Prize by La Muse en Circuit in 2005), live music for cinema (for Nanouk of the North, in collaboration with Vincent Epplay), sound installations (most notably a series entitled “Wallpaper Music”, as well as the soundtrack for Precisions Sur les Vagues, with Celia Houdart at the Festival d’Avignon in 2008), sound walks (with Célia Houdart, at Evento Festival 2009 in Bordeaux and at the Festival d’Avignon in 2010), sound design (with designer and architect Olivier Vadrot). Roux worked as a musical assistant to composers Georges Aperghis, Gérard Pesson and Morton Subotnick. He has performed in Europe, Australia and North America. He has been invited by several festivals including Musique Action (Nancy) Nuit d’hiver (Marseille), Netmage (Bologna), Whynote (Dijon), Présence Electronique (Paris), Musica (Strasbourg), Net Days (Bruxelles), Santarcangelo (Italy), Akousma (Montreal).
JENNIFER WALSHE - 'All the Many Peoples'
'The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years' - The Irish Times
'The wild girl of Darmstadt' Frankfurter Rundschau
Lojban, a language constructed entirely according to the rules of predicate logic; the cast of Lohengrin; certain sections from Watt by Samuel Beckett constituting the first examples of process composition; The Public Enemy (1931) starring James Cagney; KRS-One; U.S. and British soldiers making cell-phone videos of themselves blowing things up and uploading the videos to YouTube; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Amazon.com message boards about vampire physiology; sferics; conspiracy theorist Francis E. Dec; detritus from video game voice-overs; August Strindberg; a re-working of “The Signifying Monkey” as a inner city Dublin insult practice; rap video choreographies; The Typing of the Dead; cult Irish martial arts film Fatal Deviation; the collective unconscious as evidenced by Google Autocomplete; Courage Wolf; 4Chan.
http://www.milker.org
LUCY RAILTON / LEO CHADBURN
Cellist Lucy Railton and composer Leo Chadburn perform a selection from John Cage's '44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776'.
www.kammerklang.co.uk
