Date
Thursday 26 April 2012 at 9:00pm
Location
XOYO
32 Cowper St,
London,
EC2A 4AP,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44.(0)207.729 5959
Link
Description
We’re back at XOYO on Thursday 26th April with a programme exploring extreme instrumental sounds from the 1960s alongside contemporary electronica:
Penderecki’s ‘Threnody’ (an experiment in sound composition for 52 solo strings)
Gyorgy Ligeti’s ‘Lux Aeterna’ for 16 singers (featured in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey)
‘Peaux’ from Pleaides by Iannis Xenakis (scored for six players and 44 drums)
Alex Smoke – 2 hour DJ set
+ DJ sets from Clean Bandit, Nwando, and Nonclassical founder Gabriel Prokofiev.
Conductors: Christopher Stark + Serge Vuille
Percussion: PERC’M (Peter Handley, Joseph Richards, Angela Wai Hui, Jonathan French) + Olly Lowe, Jude Carton
Violin: Fra Rustumji Eloisa Fleur – Thom Julian Azkoul Fred Taylor Isla Mundell-Perkins Konrad Elias-Trostmann Mandhira de Saram Josie Robertson Henry Chandler Suzanna Quirke Eva Petraca Iain Gibbs Guy Button Minn Majoe Helen Waller Claire Hazelton Lidia Wagstyl Sebastian Freeburn Rachel Grimes Jess Wadey Catriona Price Eugene Feygleson Susanna Peterson Lucia d’Avanzo
Viola: Danyal Dhondy Felicity Matthews Hannah Catherine Jones Mark Gibbs Patrick McEntee Rory Storm Stephen Upshaw Tom Hedges Will Newell Bethany Britt
Cello: Andrew Power Axelle Porret Bex Herman En Liang Khong Florence Petit Hannah Schofield Josephine Stephenson Laura Sergeant Tom Wraith Tom Shelley
Double Bass: Hannah Turnbull Bruno Carneiro Eloise Riddell Sophie Roper Nick Bown Katy Furmanska Adam Wynter Georgie McGrath
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