Music is the aural form par excellence. Yet between composer and listener lies the score: a set of visual notations. Why must music pass through the visual on its way to the ear? To redress the balance, a mix of prominent and promising composers: Luc Ferrari, Kaffe Matthews, David Grubbs, Achim Wollscheid, Eric Roth, and Olias Nil, have each composed an audio score for an ensemble of equally prominent, promising musicians from the contemporary classical and improvisation worlds. The musicians will receive and interpret each score and perform it live, as the audience looks and listens on.

The ensemble will remain consistent as the composers each take a turn leading them. The scores can take any form, from verbal instruction, found sound and poetry, to other music, so long as it is delivered exclusively in audio, with no written text, conducting, physical cues or gestures.

This event will be archived online.

Conceived and curated by Seth Kim-Cohen
Part of Heaven and Earth, a multidisciplinary conference organised in collaboration with Goethe Institut London and the London Consortium

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£12 (£8 concessions), booking recommended

For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

  Music & Performance