SHITLOADS OF NOTES in store for you in the next Kammer Klang night next June, with a programme mixing pieces using the simplest elements with amongst the most outrageous excesses of contemporary digital madness: the first two parts will include classics such as Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate, the magistral foundation of sound poetry in the twentieth century, James Saunders’ Everybody do this, Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIIb for soprano saxophone, Michael Finnissy’s Z/K, Iannis Xenakis’ Mikka, with solo performances by Adam de la Cour, Neil Luck, Linn Persson, Zubin Kanga, as well as the Royal College of Music and City University Experimental Ensembles. And because we won’t have had enough, our third round will drown us all under, literally, millions of notes, with a hopefully hectic session of live black MIDI, an attack launched by Peiman Khorsavi’s and his two superfast computers.

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PROGRAMME:

Kurt Schwitters – Ursonate (1922-32)
Adam de la Cour, Neil Luck, ACME duck calls and tubing

James Saunders – Everybody do this (2014)
RCM + City Uni experimental ensembles

Luciano Berio – Sequenza VIIb for soprano saxophone (1969/2000)
Linn Persson, saxophone

Michael Finnissy – Z/K (2012)
Zubin Kanga, piano

Iannis Xenakis – Mikka (1971)
Linda Jankowska, violin

Live black midi
Peiman Khorsavi, two superfast computers

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KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
German painter, sculptor, typographer and writer.
www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5293

JAMES SAUNDERS (1972)
British composer making modular compositions and series.
www.james-saunders.com

LUCIANO BERIO (1925-2003)
Italian avant-garde composer.
www.lucianoberio.org

MICHAEL FINNISSY (1946)
Doesn’t “fit in”.
www.michaelfinnissy.info
www.michaelfinnissy.info

IANNIS XENAKIS (1922-2001)
Greek-French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer.
www.iannis-xenakis.org

LIVE BLACK MIDI
Blackened musical notation, frequently called Black MIDI, (in Japanese: 黒楽譜, Kuro Gakufu, literally “black sheet music”) is the name for music that uses MIDI files, to compose pieces with SHITLOADS OF NOTES.
rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi


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ADAM DE LA COUR (1979) / composer
Composer and performer living just outside London. He is predominantly interested in absurdity and satire, often writing pieces that involve himself as performer/participant and often victim, such as in The Best of "Futility Music" – Volume 1 and Batsu!!! Humiliating Music for Electric Guitar. His work has the incredible ability of being completely invisible to the press.
www.adamdelacour.com

NEIL LUCK (1982) / composer
Composer and performer and director based in London. He has written for a range of soloists and ensembles in the UK and abroad, and presented work at music venues, festivals and galleries internationally including the ICA, Kings Place, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, LSO St. Lukes, BBC Cut&Splice festival, in Vilnius as part of the 2009 Capital of Culture celebrations, the Tokyo Experimental Festival, and on BBC Radio 3.
www.neilluck.com

LINN PERSSON / saxophone
Swedish saxophonist currently studying for a Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music in London, supported by the Leverhulme Postgraduate Studentship, Sixten Gemzéus’ Foundation, Gunvor and Josef Anérs’ Foundation, Frimurarordern, Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien, Anna Whitlock’s Memorial Fund and Helge Ax:son Johnson’s Foundation.
www.linnp.se

ZUBIN KANGA / piano
London-based Australian pianist performing at the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh (UK), Borealis (Norway), ISCM World New Music Days (Australia )and London 2012 Festivals, as well as appearing as soloist with the London Sinfonietta and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
www.zubinkanga.com

LINDA JANKOWSKA / violin
Versatile violinist specialising in contemporary music. Founding member of Distractfold Ensemble. Linda was a member of Lucerne Festival Academy and took part in the International Ensemble Modern Academy during the Klangspuren Festival. Her genuine interest in various collaborations led her to working with the London-based dance company, New Movement Collective, on their show “Casting Traces”, and in “Sutra” by the Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Linda teaches violin in Chetham’s School of Music and works as a consultant for the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio.
lindajankowska.com

PEIMAN KHOSRAVI (1982) / two superfast computers
London-based acousmatic composer and sound projectionist, having recently finished a PhD in electroacoustic composition at City University London with professor Denis Smalley, Peiman is currently teaching music technology at the Royal Academy of Music, as well as working as a freelance sound engineer for the realisation of music involving live instruments and electroacoustic sounds.
www.peimankhosravi.co.uk