THURSDAY 10th June 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £12.50 / £9.50 adv.
‘An edgy evening with an experimental brief that celebrates Squarepusher every bit as much as Stravinsky’ - Evening Standard
Blank Canvas is a night reputed for its eclectic contemporary classical and experimental music programming, which pays no heed to classical music convention.
To mark the last in the current season of Blank Canvas shows, which has seen incredible performances from the likes of Jon Hopkins, Mira Calix, London Sinfonietta, Shlomo and Plaid at venues such as the BFI Southbank, Kings Place and Ether 10 at the Southbank Centre, British electronic artist par excellence Robin Rimbaud – aka Scanner – performs a solo set and presents a new collaboration with pianist Will Dutta and coming off a widely critically acclaimed album, Save Your Light For Darker Days, Digitonal perform a full live set.
Scanner traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.
Will Dutta, pianist, collaborator and Creative Producer of Chimera Productions, is noted for his unique and intelligent programming skills: connecting the dots between modern dance music and classical, contemporary and experimental art music. He recently premiered new music for piano and electronics by Plaid and Max de Wardener, for which visual artist Quayola created unique visuals, at the Southbank Centre as part of Ether 10 and tonight see him premiere a new work by John Richards as well as a special collaboration with Scanner.
In 2008, Digitonal played at the NASAAmesResearch Base.This is not the coolest thing they have done.
From sharing a stage with The Notwist in a disused abattoir in Prague to playing alongside Aphex Twin and Goldfrapp in an abandoned London tube station, Digitonal's atmospheric,orchestral electronicahas earnt them universal praise as a unique musical voice, combining the precision of laptop controlled electronics and the expressiveness of strings and woodwinds.
Draw a line from the intricatecomposition of Max Richter, through the childhood-evoking simplicity of Boards of Canada and the futurism of Orbital and FSOL. Continue through the classic post-acid take on dance music of Plaid,the redefinition of tonalityof Nyman, Glass and Reich and back to the roots of polyphony in medieval sacred music: The Digitonal sound is emotive, evocative and always beautiful.
LINKS
www.scannerdot.com
www.digitonal.com
www.chimera-productions.org.uk
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