David Sutton-Anderson and Sounds Positive are organising a series of concerts under the common title Parallel lines
The series examines the interface between composed and improvised music, taking Barry Guy's classic Bird Gong Game as a launching pad. An exciting crop of premieres explore this path from different perspectives, set alongside some of sounds positive's commissions form the past 20 years.
Event detals are available on Sounds Positive web site
The July copy of the spnm newsletter is out. Here is the text from it. Visit their web site for a full version with links.
SPNM July e-newsletter
Hello and welcome to our update for July. Listings of our activities are below, and first here are a few thoughts…
This month's e-newsletter includes an opportunity to read the full transcript of the new notes symposium on audience and user development. Working on user development is part of the behind-the-scenes work that we are doing as we develop a new organisation, together with BMIC, Contemporary Music Network and Sonic Arts Network, which enables more people to engage with new music and sound.
spnm continues a busy programme of events in July, including a performance of Bhangra Latina at Henley Festival and the last date of the Folk From Here tour along with Shortlist Portraits at Cheltenham Music Festival and a second performance of a previous Adopt-a-Composer work in Yorkshire. See below for more information on these events.
With best wishes,
Shoël Stadlen
1. New notes symposium
2. Cheltenham Music Festival
3. Bhangra Latina
4. Adopt-a-Composer performance
5. Kings Place Opening Festival on sale
6. News from elsewhere
1. new notes symposium
spnm is in the process of developing a new organisation for music and sound along with BMIC, Contemporary Music Network and Sonic Arts Network. User and audience development is one of the key stated aims of this project. So how can new music and sound attract and engage with more people? The latest new notes symposium invited a panel of experts in the field to discuss this question. A shortened version was published in July's new notes magazine. To read the full transcript, click here.
2. Cheltenham Music Festival
Folk From Here musicians - image by Richard Cobelli
Cheltenham Music Festival
This month spnm had several events at Cheltenham Music Festival including the last date of the Folk From Here tour on 10 July with Kuljit Bhamra and Kathryn Tickell
Click here for photos of the London performance and to access programme notes and soundclips.
spnm Shortlist Portraits:
8 July, 4.30pm, Chris Litherland/Wells Cathedral School Chamber Choir
9 July, 3pm, Evangelia Rigaki/Barbirolli Quartet
18 July, 3pm, Maxwell Charles Davies/Amy Dickson, saxophone www.spnm.org.uk/events
3. Bhangra Latina
Bhangra Latina at Bradford Mela
Photos of the first Bhangra Latina performance at Bradford Mela on 15 June and soundclips from the recording sessions are now online.
The tour then visited Henley Festival on 11 July, 7pm.
Tickets have just gone on sale for the London premiere of Bhangra Latina at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall on 21 September.
Click here for further information and to book.
4. Adopt-a-Composer performance
Adopt-a-Composer performance
Ben Oliver will have his Adopt-a-Composer work performed again by Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir and Rothwell Temperance Band in Wakefield Cathedral on 12 July, 7.30pm.
5. Kings Place Opening Festival on sale
Tickets are now on sale for spnm's events as part of the Kings Place Opening Festival. The online price is £2.50 (normal price £4.50). Visit the site for more information and to book or call the box office on 0844 264 0321.
Thursday 2 October:
Toy Play with Isabel Ettenauer (toy pianos) and Rachel Leach (composer)
Three Strange Angels with Richard Benjafield and Chris Brannick (percussion)
Kuljit Bhamra and Zoe Rahman
Sunday 5 October
Kings Cross Sound Walk with Tony Whitehead & Matthew Samson
Songs of Kings Cross and beyond with Loré Lixenberg
Kings Cross in sound and on film
Click here for more information
6. News from elsewhere
Musical Techniques & Composition programme at Birkbeck, University of London
This part-time evening programme gives you an excellent grounding in the principles of harmony, counterpoint and analysis. We will study forms and musical vocabulary, enabling you to understand the workings of a composer’s mind. This course will give you the technical grounding to develop your own compositions to a professional level. For more information, please contact John Lugo on 020 7679 1008, email: j.lugo@bbk.ac.uk, or visit our website: www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/music
An Ocean of Rain
The Almeida Summer Festival 2008 opens with the London premiere of a new multi media chamber opera, An Ocean of Rain, by composer Yannis Kyriakides. Set in Haiti, it tells the story of the intertwined lives of five women questioning life, love, death and fate. Directed by Cathie Boyd, designed by John Otto, Lighting by Zerlina Hughes and video by Julia Bardsley. Performances – 10, 11 July at 7.30pm and 13 July at 7pm. www.OceanofRain.comwww.almeida.co.uk
no.w.here present REVERBERATIONS, a new series of events and workshops where six international moving image artists trace lines of influential thought
through their practice.
1) ROBERT FENZ - 6 August 2008, 6.45–8.45pm, Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3. To reserve free places call 020 7472 5500.
2)WORKSHOP: IMPROVISING SOUND & IMAGE IN NON FICTION FILM
with ROBERT FENZ & ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH - 7 August 2008, 10am–5pm, no.w.here, 316–318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 OAG
Call 0207 729 4494 or email: courses@nowhere-lab.org. www.no-w-here.org.uk
Lines and Loops: Steve Bingham, solo violin and electric violin
Sunday 27th July, 7.30pm, Sukkat Shalom Synagogue, Wanstead. E11 1UL.
Jason Carter/Bingham - Chant
Chick Corea - Children's Song No. 6
Bill Whelan - Marta's Dance
Philip Glass - Violin Concerto (Slow Movement)
Andrew Keeling - You Cut the String
Stravinsky - Elegie
George Harrison - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
+ music by Bach and Pachelbel
Tickets £10
www.boothseismic.co.uk/sheena and www.stevebingham.co.uk