OUT HEAR is a series of events curated by leading promoters and musicians in the worlds of contemporary/experimental music and multi-media performance. Prepare to ‘break your sound barrier’ as you embark on a thrilling journey of sonic adventures.
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Kings Place 90 York Way
London N1 9AG
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Autumn Season 2009
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Directed and Undirected
The LIO at Kings Place
Twittering Machines and Sutartines
In The Asylum
Close Encounter
with Jonathan Harvey
Solos and Duos for Violin and Piano: 1
String Theories
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new music::new Ireland
London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) The London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2008. The members of this 20- to 40strong ensemble hail from the worlds of jazz, pop, folk, world and classical traditions. Each performance involves a directed ‘conduction’ and an undirected piece. Whatever happens, the LIO takes listeners on a rollercoaster ride to the outer limits of their imagination.
The Spontaneous Cosmic Rawextra
Anton Lukoszevieze Lithuanian contemporary music is a hidden gem of the European scene, characterised by a protopagan minimalism and a folk inspired sensibility. Sutartinés form the bedrock of much new Lithuanian music, together with electronica and the canonic inventions of composer Rytis Mažulis. Cellist and curator Anton Lukoszevieze plays and introduces the Chordos String Quartet, plus rarely heard music by leading Fluxus member George Maciunas.
Sum Over Histories
(TSCR)
A TWISTED LOUNGE BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROJECT
Orphy Robinson The debut of a new musical collective with a vibrant mix of sonic explorations and influences – inspired by artists such as Sun Ra, Eric Dolphy, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill and Charles Mingus. TSCR features some of the most original and influential musicians in the UK, infusing the proceedings with their own Afro-Caribbean heritage as well as African and Western classical music.
John Woolrich and the Composers Ensemble
The Composers Ensemble performs a selection of works, ranging from the ghostly (Salvatore Sciarrino’s Let Me Die Before I Wake) to the tumultuous (Gerald Barry’s In the Asylum) by way of Franco Donatoni’s Spice and the London premiere of John Woolrich’s A Dramolet.
Sounds from the Japanese Underground
Sargasso:C
Ireland’s Contemporary Music Centre
Nigel Osborne
Celebrating Jonathan Harvey’s 70th birthday with the composer himself. Pianist Philip Mead, cellist Neil Heyde, electronica manipulator Kaffe Matthews and others play Tombeau de Messiaen, Advaya, Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, as well as more alternative works. Plus an exclusive Q&A with Harvey.
New music specialists Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) play cutting-edge contemporary Irish music. These virtuoso performers are among the leading champions of Ireland’s vibrant new music scene. Their programme ranges across the styles and generations from well-known names like Gerald Barry to some of the younger composers now gaining profile. Supported by Culture Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland. www.cmc.ie
An eclectic and intercontinental group of musicians – including a New York jazz flautist, a French punk guitarist, a Chilean political songwriter, a German gondola pianist and a Japanese ultramodernist – write miniatures for the Edinburgh Quartet, linked by transformational sounddesign installations.
Solos and Duos for Violin and Piano: 2
The Sound Alchemists
Sophiatown to Camden Town
Sargasso:C
EDGE09
The legendary Sargasso:C events return with Lawrence Casserley, whose live sound transmutations have established him as one of today’s great electronic improvisers. Plus new music by composer Simon Emmerson and Daniel Biro with the Vocal Motion Singers, in which gospel-inspired vocal loops and electronica collide.
During the 1970s a group of exiled South African jazz musicians - Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Chris McGregor stamped their mark on UK music scene. Sophiatown To Camden Town unites a cross-generational host of musicians to reinterpret those classic post Township melodies and revive the sounds of freedom that connected the dark days of apartheid to inner city London.
new music::new Ireland
Elision
Oto Projects
Sum Over Histories examines the work of British composers who have made recent and substantial contributions to contemporary Australian musical life. The hyper-virtuosity of this repertoire is complemented by the dramatic composition of pieces by American composers Evan Johnson and Aaron Cassidy. The event features performances from Richard Haynes and Carl Rosman.
Oto Projects presents an evening of contemporary experimental music from Japan including music from Tori Kudo & Reiko Kudo + other established figures from the Japanese scene. ‘Oto’ means sound, noise and music in Japanese, and since opening just over a year ago Café Oto has forged close links with Japan’s avant-garde music community. Catch this rare chance to experience one of the world’s most exciting and vibrant underground music scenes.
Ireland’s Contemporary Music Centre Leading Irish performers Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin) and Michael McHale (piano) explore the more lyrical side of Ireland’s contemporary music. Taking as a starting point the individual soundworlds of the violin and the piano, their programme points up themes of contrast and complement in works by Ronan Guilfoyle, Philip Hammond, Philip Martin and Ian Wilson. Supported by Culture Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland. www.cmc.ie