5. Ensemble Expose
Saturday 21 November
Bates Mill 3pm,
Full price £14; Concession £12
Roger Redgate Concerto for Improvising Soloist and 2 Ensembles (hcmf commission) (World Premiere)
David Gorton Schmetterlingsspiel (World Premiere)
Paul Archbold new work (World Premiere)
Ensemble Exposé
Christopher Redgate oboe
Roger Redgate artistic director
Writing at the cutting edge of the performable, the composers Roger Redgate, Paul Archbold and David Gorton have created works that explore instrumental techniques, challenge traditional chamber music boundaries and rethink relationships between soloist and ensemble, improvisation and notation, and the relationships between electronics and acoustic instruments.
Redgate's work is for improvising soloist and two ensembles (one instrumental and the other laptops, turntables and VJ). Gorton's Schmetterlingsspiel describes a chaotic relationship between the solo oboe and the ensemble. Archbold's work for oboe, ensemble and electronics (laptop and keyboard) will explore the oboe's multi-phonic potential which is, in turn, developed by the ensemble.
Co-produced by hcmf// and sound and music; Concerto for Improvising Soloist and 2 Ensembles is commissioned by hcmf// with funds from the Britten-Pears Foundation; supported by British Council; part of sound and music's Cutting Edge Tour
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