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Re-mastered Event Archives
Newly available! Digitally re-mastered
recordings of the entire performance are available below in part one
and two. See individual composers' archives further below, for addititional
rehearsal recordings and compositional scores.
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| Performance Part 2 - re-mastered 45 min Real Audio |
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Individual Composition and
Audio Archives
New work by composers Luc Ferrari,
Kaffe Matthews, David Grubbs, Achim Wollscheid, Eric Roth and Olias Nil. Follow the links below for individual archives and documents of the composers work, biographies and performance recordings.
Audio Scores and Performance Recordings:
| The Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep (sic) by Olias Nil |
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Online Events has worked in collaboration with the Composers, making available components of the work which illustrate practice and compositional technique. Audio scores have also been released as downloadable MP3s, available for non-commercial reuse and musical interpretation.
Recordings of the live performance are also available to listen to, alongside the MP3 archive, demonstrating the application and interpretation of the scores by musicians performing as part of the live programme.
Event Overview
Performance Date: 29 January 2005
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, each composed an audio score for an ensemble of equally prominent
musicians from the contemporary classical and improvisation worlds. The musicians received and interpreted each score and performed it
live, for The Sound of Heaven and Earth at Tate Modern.
The ensemble remained consistent as the composers each take a turn leading them. The scores could 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.
Instrumentation included: Bass by John Edwards,
Bass Saxophone by Tony Bevan, Electronics by Andrew
Morgan, Electronics and Flutes by David Toop,
Harp by Rogeri Davis and Cello by Neil
Hyde.
Conceived and curated by Seth Kim-Cohen.
Part of Heaven and Earth, a multidisciplinary conference organised
in collaboration with Goethe Institute London and the London Consortium.
Musicical Ensemble
The ensemble was put together by Andrew Morgan.
"I owe an unpayable debt to the composers and to the members of the ensemble. They represent the best tendencies in contemporary music making: open mindedness, technique not to beholden to
convention, dedication to risk and its attendent rewards (Regardless of its inevitable wrecks)"
- Seth Kim-Cohen, Curator, The Sound of Heaven and Earth
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Tony Bevan
Bass Saxophone |
Tony Bevan is an improvising virtuoso on Soprano, Tenor and Bass saxophones, on which is probably Britain's only major modern performer. He has appeared numerous times with Derek Bailey's international symposium of improvisers, COMPANY, released acclaimed CDs on Bailey's INCUS label (including the Mercury Music Prize nominated "Bigshots") as well as recording with Bailey himself (he is a member of Bailey's "Limescale" quintet). He has toured extensively in Europe and America, and is currently a member of the legendary Sunny Murray's trio, as well as leading his own groups. Writer Ben Watson has written of him as "..one of the unsung heroes of modern British music".
His current trio is completed by John Edwards on Bass and Mark Sanders on drums, this being the group on his recording, "Nothing is Permanent but Woe", recorded for and broadcast by the BBC's "Jazz on 3", and featured on their "highlights of the year" show.
Apart from his own groups, Bevan also has an occasional duo with Derek Bailey (recorded on "Visitor's Book", released in August 2002 on Incus, and "Under Tracey's Bed", a performance from the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. He has also performed and recorded with Derek in larger groups - the quintet recording "Limescale" has just been released on Incus. Bevan is also (again, with John Edwards) a member of the Sunny Murray Trio, and has toured this country and recorded with him, and will be touring Europe with him early next year.
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Rhodri Davies (CYMRU / WALES)
Harp |
Davies is an improvising harpist who confronts traditional concepts of the harp through his use of preparations, detuned, bowed and e-bowed strings. Influenced by live electronics, music-concrete and electronica he is particularly interested in exploring noise, silence, texture and abstract sound on his acoustic
instrument and especially working with musicians who utilize electronics. Regular Groups include; Broken Consort, Cranc, The Sealed Knot and Apartment House. In ad hoc groupings he has played with Christian Marclay, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, Martin Tetreault, David Toop, Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann, Otomo Yoshihide
and John Zorn. He also performs and researches contemporary classical music. This year, he commissioned five composers to develop new works for the harp, James Saunders, Michael Parsons, Laurence Crane, John White and John Lely.
www.rhodridavies.co.uk
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John Edwards
Double Bass |
Since taking up the double bass in 1987, Edwards has always been involved with a wide diversity of musical styles and situations.
At home with both composed and improvised music, he is one of the busiest musicians on the London scene. Probably best known for his work with Evan Parker, John Butcher, Paul Lovens etc, he has been in groups such as God and
B-shops for the Poor, while at present continues to collaborate with electro-accoustic composer John Wall, Spring Heel Jack, FunDaMental and play in groups with Louis Moholo, Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, Harry Beckett, to name a few... He is to perform another series of solo concerts later in 2005.... He features on over 50 recordings.
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Andrew Morgan
Electronics |
After completing his first degree at DePaul University in Chicago, Morgan continues his studies as Composition Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. collaborations have included the Ken Vandermark, BBC Singers, The National Theatre and the London Sinfonietta, who recently performed Catalyst at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Morgan's works have been performed in the U.S.A., Canada and the UK. He has written for a large range of ensembles and instruments from solo harpsichord to full orchestra, electronics to free jazz ensemble. Ongoing collaborations with visual artist and film maker Chris Ruffatto have produced works ranging from Sit Quietly, for
interactive video and large ensemble, to gallery installations. Future projects include a commission from the Neubrandenburger Philharmoniker and feature length film collaboration with Ruffatto. In addition to composing, Morgan performs with many groups exploring new classical music, out-jazz, free improvisation and improvised electronics.
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David Toop
Flutes / Electronics |
David Toop is a composer, author, critic and sound curator. He has published four books: Rap Attack, Ocean Of Sound, Exotica, and Haunted Weather. In 2000, he curated Sonic Boom, the UK's biggest exhibition of sound art, for the Hayward Gallery in London. His first album was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975 and since 1995 he has released eight solo CDs. Musicians with whom he has collaborated include Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Scanner, John Zorn and Akio Suzuki. At Lisbon Expo '98 he composed the music for the nightly spectacular, Acqua Matrix, and in 2002, his composition Siren Space was performed on the River Thames. He is currently an AHRB Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts.
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Neil Heyde
Cello |
Neil Heyde is the cellist of the Kreutzer Quartet and a senior lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, where his work focuses on the relationships between performance, composition and analysis. As a soloist and chamber musician he has appeared throughout Europe, broadcasting for the BBC, WDR, ORF, Radio France,Netherlands Radio and many other networks, and recording for Metier and Naxos. In the late 80s and early 90s he was a member of the improvisation and New Music quintet Shiva Nova, and more recently has improvised for several series of poetry films on Channel 4, and in connection with Visual Music events at Tate St. Ives. He has commissioned and premiered many solo and chamber pieces and is also dedicated to performing and recording neglected areas of the repertoire and is currently editing the volume of Debussy's sonatas for the Oeuvres Complètes.
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