Scenatet

Scenatet (Denmark) is one of Europe’s most innovative ensembles, merging score music, performance, and dramaturgy in interdisciplinary, site-specific formats. Founded in 2008, Scenatet challenges artistic conventions and engages audiences through bold, genre-defying works. Collaboration across disciplines is central to its practice, resulting in original and commissioned productions that shape the future of scenic music. With a strong international profile, Scenatet tours widely and collaborates with leading composers, directors, choreographers, dancers, and musicians worldwide. https://scenatet.dk/

Matt Rogers

The British composer Matt Rogers has written for and with a host of leading instrumentalists, ensembles and technologists, creating music and installations for concert halls, theatres, galleries and public spaces. He has received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and has been Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre and Tokyo Wonder Site. He was also the first composer to be commissioned by London’s Art on the Underground. Previous commissions include The Virtues of Things for Royal Opera, Aldeburgh Music and Opera North. Rogers is currently collaborating on new work with the American chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound.

David Helbich

David Helbich studied composition and philosophy in Amsterdam and in Freiburg. He has lived and worked in Brussels since 2002. He creates various experimental works on stage, on page, online and in public space. His trajectory moves between representative and interactive works, pieces and interventions, between conceptual work and actions. A recurring interest is in the understanding of an audience as active individuals and the search for an opening up of experiences in an artistically restricted space. Tonight he will perform No Music – A performative rehearsal.

“No Music is no music, but still a musical experience. No music, still for your ears.

Since 2010 I have worked on scores for pieces that could be performed right at the spot, in whatever context, as long as one could freely use both hands and had two functioning ears. The pieces offer notated situations of organised listening and simple ear manipulations.

I understand the this material more as a practice than as a series of composition, even though they can appear as such. Pieces appear in printed form as well as in spontaneous performances or entirely set theatrical or concert performances.

These interventions are entirely personal and therefore not so much interactive as ‘inner-active’, self-performative. The reader as the performer as the listener.” – DH

Benjamin Oliver

Benjamin Oliver is a composer, conductor, and jazz pianist based in Southampton. He frequently collaborates with artists from other disciplines, including poet Luke Wright , theatre-maker Rachel Warr, filmmaker and audiovisual artist Moe Myat May Zarchi. https://www.benolivermusic.com/

Yshani Perinpanayagam

Yshani Perinpanayagam is the pianist of The Del Mar Piano Trio, the company pianist of Rambert Dance Company and performer with Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.

Slip

Slip is an imprint releasing exploratory work which negotiates the fringes of new instrumental and electronic music. Slip currently operates from London and Berlin, curated by Tom Rose and Laurie Tompkins.

Since 2012, the label has focused on rallying a growing community of idiosyncratic artists, curating live performances ranging from intimate instrumental settings to basement clubs. Showcases play with the implications of the spaces they occupy in a sincere attempt to expand their basic function.
On record/live Slip have hosted: Leo Abrahams, Dave Bainbridge, Bass Clef, Tom Bayman, Chaines, Oliver Coates, Dori Deng, Mark Fell, Hana Fujimoto, David Futers, Larry Goves, Heatsick, Mica Levi (a.k.a. Micachu), Tom McKinney, MFAAH, Mira Calix, Alex Mitchell, Aisha Orazbayeva, Aaron Parker, Quentin Haas, Sam Quill, REFUSENIK (a.k.a. Arturas Bumšteinas), Tom Rose, Joe Snape, James Snazell, Mary Stark, Conor Thomas, Rian Treanor, Laurie Tompkins, Ian Vine, Wanda Group, Matthew Welton and Wulf.