We need Accordionists!

In Every Dream Home a Heartache

hcmf// is seeking 10-15 accordionists to perform in Big Squeeze, Long Stretch, a live performance directed by leading experimental music composer Alvin Curran in Huddersfield’s newest contemporary art and design gallery, worksetting. This is an exciting opportunity to perform in a large accordion ensemble as part of an internationally renowned festival. Participants should be able to read music notation and ideally have some experience of structured improvisation.

Participants will be required for rehearsals on:

  • Sunday 21 November, 2pm - 5pm                                 
  • Monday 22 November, 4pm - 5.30pm

Performance:

6pm - 6.30pm, Monday 22 November, worksetting Gallery, 21-22 Byram Arcade, Huddersfield, HD1 1ND

The performance is inspired by a seating system which will be installed as part of the Worksetting Gallery’s second exhibition, In Every Dream Home, A Heartache, which has been developed with the support of Amanda Levete Architects and DuPont™ Corian® in the UK, and will spill across the three balconies of the magnificent Victorian-era Byram Arcade.

'In Big Squeeze, Long Stretch an ensemble of massed accordionists will create a structured ‘choreography' of motion and sound with these portable man-made bellows as if they were a form of living breath and breathing. Hence, there will be exaggeratedly slow motion leading to a gradual exhaustion of slowness and suspension, arriving at a density of speed and event as to induce a collective state of sonic instability, whose conclusion could be taken to represent an everyday sing-a-long.' Alvin Curran

If you would like to take part in this event or would some further information, please contact Heidi Johnson on 01484 471116 or email h.johnson@hud.ac.uk as soon as possible.

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