Sunday 1 May 2022, 8pm
PROGRAMME
- Aisha Orazbayeva
- Aisha Orazbayeva / Tim Etchells
- TIBSLC
+ Jack Sheen (DJ) + Adrian Corker (DJ)
Kazakh violinist & composer Aisha Orazbayeva is renowned for her fearless interpretations of contemporary music and radical approach to old repertoire. She released four critically acclaimed solo albums, with the latest "Music for Violin Alone" described as a "unanimity of head, hearts and hands" by the New Yorker magazine. Together with Mark Knoop she won a Diapason D'Or award for their recording of Morton Feldman's "For John Cage". She has given violin masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the International Darmstadt Summer Course. Aisha's music has been performed at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Wiener Festwochen Festival in Vienna. She has recently become a member of Ictus ensemble in Brussels.
Tim Etchells (1962) is an artist and writer based in the UK whose experimental work with language shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment and in collaboration with a wide range of musicians, artists and performance makers including Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Marino Formenti, Taus Mahakacheva, Vlatka Horvat, Ant Hampton, Aisha Orazbayeva and Elmgreen & Dragset.
Leipzig based TIBSLC (The International Billionaire's Secret Love Child) sculpts hazily ambiguous but meticulously detailed sounds hypersensitive to nanoscopic movements and fleeting midnight feels. Blending subtle environmental recordings with processed digital noise and feedback. TIBSLC’s work is distinguished by an arcing narrative quality that emerges across its yawning spaces, each viewed by perspectives ranging from lofty, birds-eye to more intimate and voyeuristic. (Boomkat)“
They focus on the interweaving of personal and spatial relationships in the spatial audio live- performance “Light Rain And Distant Dogs” (ZiMMT, Leipzig, 2021), and in “The Ever Changing Always Staying The Same” (2019, Leipzig), a six-hour electro-acoustic solo live performance in which the limits of installation-performance and the points of contact between sound, space and audience are explored - the sound-environment of six different rooms are controlled and altered at the same time.
In 2021 they released their debut LP - “Delusive Tongue Shifts / Situation Based Compositions” on Manchester based label sferic. “It is a mottled expanse of shimmer and hum: weightless as a sigh, splotchy as a bruise, cozy and unsettling in equal measure.“ (Pitchfork)
Jack Sheen is a composer and conductor from Manchester whose music ranges from concert works for orchestras to immersive loud-speaker and performance-installations.
Alongside 'Sub', recent projects include a sound-installation for the Venice Biennale Musica featuring Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, a four-hour work for Casa de Serralves (Porto) for 50 voices and ensemble, and conducting Matthew Barney & Jonathan Bepler’s large-scale interdisciplinary performance 'Catasterism in Three Movements', commissioned by Basel’s Schaulager. In 2022 he will return to perform at Lucerne Festival and Tanglewood Music Centre (USA), and work with the Royal Opera House, London Sinfonietta, London Contemporary Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and Ensemble 10/10.
Jack has written music for ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Apartment House, Les Métaboles, and EXAUDI. As a conductor, the last year saw Jack make his debut with the LSO, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta, Britten Sinfonia, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and FontanaMIX Ensemble in diverse programmes including premieres of his own music.
He is the Co-Director of London Contemporary Music Festival (‘the capital’s most adventurous and ambitious festival of new music’, The Guardian; ‘London’s most important festival’, The Wire) which returns 15–19 June 2022 at Woolwich Works.
Adrian Corker is a musician and composer who has written extensively to picture.Recent releases included Music for Lock Grooves and 9 Spaces featuring Tatsuhisa Yamamoto and Takuma Watanabe amongst others.He has collaborated with musicians and artists such as Chris Watson,Jack Wyllie and the Ligeti Quartet. He set up SN Variations in 2016 and co-founded sister label Constructive last year.
