hcmf// shorts
Monday 23 November
LBT & Creative Arts Building 1pm-5pm,
Free Events
These short performances provide up and coming musicians and ensembles with a valuable platform to perform at the UK's leading new music festival. The series takes place on one intensive day of activity, and is accompanied by a marketplace where emerging artists can meet industry representatives to find out about exciting opportunities available to them.
LBT 1pm
CR:ACC Ensemble
Christian Wolff Burdocks
Christian Wolff's seminal work, Burdocks, will be performed by a new and exciting improvising group from Glasgow. Burdocks was first performed in August 1971, and consists of ten sections. Whilst it is the most performed of his indeterminate scores, Wolff's output is rarely heard today.
Phipps Hall 1.40pm
Jonathan Sage clarinet
Richard Glover Bi-linear
Steve Reich New York Counterpoint
Mimimal and Minimalist
New York Counterpoint is written for 11 clarinet parts, with the performer pre-recording and multi-tracking the 10 accompanying parts and then playing the solo part over the top. Richard Glover's Bi-linear on the other hand, although not minimalist, is a piece with minimal pitch and rhythm content.
CAB Room CAA 2/01 2.30pm
G. Douglas Barrett A Few Silence
A Few Silence is a piece in which the very site of performance becomes the subject of documentation. In it performer create ‘live' written transcriptions of the sounds of their surroundings and then perform their respective scores using various instruments and objects. Whether it is performed in a gallery, concert hall or urban setting, I regard the piece as the following-through of an experimental process set up to observe the space of performance through sound.
Phipps Hall 3pm
Richard Uttley piano
Joe Cutler Clavinova Music
Thomas Adès Traced Overhead, op.15
Chris Willis Burning Up
Three recent British works centring on various manifestations of ecstasy.
Phipps Hall 3.40pm
Ignacio Agrimbau Anatomy of the Self
Anatomy of the Self is the name given to a performance / recording project based around the electronic elaboration and manipulation of originally acoustic material, which is usually half-improvised. The pieces presented here, Anatomy of the Self II and III, is based on Oud and Ma-Wu performances with added drums.
CAB Atrium 4.20pm
Workers Union Ensemble
David Ibbett new work
Our collaboration focuses on the enlargement, refinement, re-organisation and intensification of the ensemble's sound via electronics. Through juxtapositions and dialogues between the instruments and their recorded selves, an extended timbral palette is created with increased scope, technique and texture - creating a world which is rich yet unified.
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