TUESDAY 2nd February 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets :
£5 (Tickets on the door only)
Kammer Klang presents a night of contemporary classical compositions and improvised music.
Headlined by:
Steve Beresford - electronics
Alan Tomlinson - alto & tenor trombones
Roger Turner - drum set & percussion
" Here we have a cracked trio that is firmly 'in the tradition'. Of course the tradition at hand is that particularly crazed, conversational notion of spontaneous collective interplay honed in the London improv scene; a tradition that Tomlinson, Beresford, and Turner have been poking and prodding at for three decades now. This is freewheeling improvisation that tosses subversive humour, situationist theatricality, and rough-shod abstraction into a blender and punches the puree button with glee. Tomlinson's trombone smears and blats are thrown up against Beresford's jangled sprays of cheap electronics and Turner's driving percussive clatter. This is electro-acoustic improv of a whole different sort. Nothing restrained or 'reductivist' here. That is not to say that this is music without subtlety or intricacy. They can drop to tiny gestures and quiet detail. But those sections are then used as launching pads to caterwaul off into antic bluster and hyperactive ruckus. In lesser hands, this kind of thing can fall apart quickly. But these three have lightening-quick reflexes, keen ears, and commanding presence." MICHAEL ROSENSTEIN - THE SQUID'S EAR
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Elliott Carter - Figment No 1 (1994)
Lucy Railton Solo cello
A movement for solo cello by one of Americas most significant composers, Elliott Cater (b.1908 - ) performed by KK's founder and curator, Lucy Railton.
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Cover Me Casio! Kerry Yong (continues) to adapt and perform works on an 80s casio (with other electronic paraphernalia).
Madrigaleby Italian composer Aldo Clementi was originally for prepared piano, glockenspiel and vibraphone. In this performance, the winding-down music box process will be imitated using delay lines and looping, introducing other degenerating sounds.
The iconic, racing, unison movement ‘Dance of fury for the seven trumpets’ from Olivier Messiaen’sQuartet for the End of Timewill be subjected to a fantasy of casio tones.
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Reinita amarilla, termina en el charco (UK Premiere)by Federico Reuben (b. 1978, Costa Rica)
Leo Chadburn - Recorder
Lucy Railton - Cello
Kerry Yong - Harpsichord
Reinita amarilla, termina en el charco (2006) is a composition in two movements originally composed for harpsichord, bass viol and recorders (on this occasion the harpsichord will be replaced by a keyboard and the viol by a cello).Reinitais inspired on Couperin's "Le Parnasse", Murakami's "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle", shamisen music and a selection of japanese avant-pop/rock. The title means: "Little yellow queen, winds up in the puddle".
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