TUESDAY 30th June 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5 (Tickets on the door only)
Kammer Klang presents an eclectic night of electronic and contemporary classical compositions: Mayming, Xenakis, Luigi Nono, Ablinger, Cornelius Cardew, performed by Seaming To, Semay Wu, Shabaka Hutching, Kerry Yong and Lucy Railton.....
MAYMING - Seaming To - Voice/Semay Wu - Cello
Seaming To and Semay Wu first worked together in Ninja Tunes' Homelifeover ten years ago, a highly influential Manchester band that helpedshape their ideas on how a variety of musical styles can still fuse avery personal and fluid sound.
They perform regularly as Mayming as well as with highly regardedmusicians and performers including; Jean-Claude Vannier (SergeGainsbourg RIP), The Earlies, Robert Wyatt, King Creosote, Mr. Scruff,Herbaliser and Graham Massey. They have also worked extensively in community and theatre projects, including; Forkbeard Fantasy, PunchDrunk and The Long Walk; a major community project that won the artscouncil funding award in 2007.
Their project as Mayming is one of the more innovative and inspiringacts in the North West. They are both from a classically trainedbackground and their music is charged with a variety of influences,forging a highly experimental and haunting sound that has reached anunusually wide-ranging audience.Semay uses the cello as a subtle and powerful instrument thatcomplements and drives Seaming's stunning vocals. Both are looped andsampled to create a hypnotic free-form soundscape delivering aconsistently emotive human story. There is a sense of haunting torchsong dramatics adapting to a new world of technical possibilities. A highly cinematic and evocative sound that can shape-shift into diverseenvironments, turning the most unlikely of venues into their personalworld.
"Wonderful swaying strings...akin to the soundtrack to Wong Ka Wai's "In the Mood for Love soundtrack" - Dan Hill, BBC Experimental Review
"...We make our way haphazardly through the rooms of dusty cold-war relics towards the echo of music. We find its source in a dimly lit room reminiscent of an old jazz club...wherein two women – one with a cello and the other set up with a microphone and laptop – create the most incredible dream-like ambient soundscapes...." - Ben Yates, Drowned in Sound
LINKS
www.myspace.com/mayming
www.myspace.com/semaywu
www.myspace.com/seaming
KERRY YONG-performs works on (acoustic) piano with recorded sounds by LUIGI NONO-.....sofferte onde serene... & PETER ABLINGER-Voices and Piano
Luigi Nono's .....sofferte onde serene..., a classic from the 70s, melds the recorded piano-sounds of pianist Maurizio Pollini with live-piano, evoking the soundscape of the lagoons and bells of Venice.
Peter Ablinger'sVoices and Pianoa cycle of pieces featuring the recorded voices of well-known celebrities (Mother Theresa, Morton Feldmann & Billie Holiday) giving speeches, interviews or readings. The piano behaves like a coarse sonic-doppelgänger of the voice, so that speech and music are confronted and compared.
Kerry Yong is a pianist living in east London. He gained a doctorate at the Royal College of Music, playing and writing about piano and electronic music. He has performed at Rational Rec, with ensemble plus-minus, rarescale and Ensemble Offspring. He is also director of music at grace church hackney (which meets at shoreditch church), where he directs, arranges and plays all sorts of music, sacred and profane.
LINKS
http://kerry-yong.blogspot.com/
SHABAKA HUTCHINGS Clarinets performs MOUNTAINS by CORNELIUS CARDEW & CHARISMA by XENAKIS with LUCY RAILTON on cello
Shabaka Hutchings is a young but already very highly rated reeds player, known for his work with Zed-U and with Seb Rochford. He has recently been working with Jack Dejohnette and Courtney Pine.
LINKS
www.myspace.com/shabakahutchings
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