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Interactive electronics and performance

Sunday 26th Feb, LSO St Lukes
161 Old Street, London, EC1V 9NG

Conference 10.00am - 5.30pm
Evening Concert 7.30pm

Prices: £60 (£40 students) for full days conference + evening concert. £12 and £8 concession concert only. Please note: Tickets available through Tickets Oxford: 01865 305305, www.ticketsoxford.com NOT St. Lukes

A one-day conference, followed by evening concert. The conference will be a must for composers, musicians and academics interested in the latest developments and opportunites of new electronic music. The day will feature a key note speech from Philippe Manoury, one of the world's leading authorities and exponenets of electronic music formerly based at IRCAM Paris, as well as a lecture by Simon Emmerson long-time one of Britains leaders in the field - with a new realisation of his his work 'Sentences' performed by soprano Steve Halfyard.

The day will run from 10:30 through until 17:30, with the concert begining at 7:30. This will feature Matthew Barley (cello) and soprano Donatienne MICHEL-DANSAC with live electronics as well as the London premiere of Manoury's 'echo' for soprano and live transformation as well as 'Sentences' by Simon Emerson. Peter Wiegold and John Croft's world premiere pieces are the culmination of an 18 month research project at Brunel University.

'Surge' and 'Horses Brawl'

Thursday 2nd March, The Spitz
109 Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market,
London, E1 6BG
Box Office 020 7392 9032
www.spitz.co.uk

8.00pm

Tickets: £8.00, £7.00 concession

Following on from the success of last festival's 'Platform:21' two groups have been asked back, each performing a complete set of their latest material. Folk-inspired Horses Brawl will premiere new works in collaboration with a range of UK composers, including a new work devised with Anna Meredith, as well as music from their recently released album.

"vibrant, engaging and completely spellbinding...".

Surge is an 11 piece band made up of great young Birmingham musicians that play Sid Peacock's weird and wonderful multi-genre compositions. High energy, highly original and slightly mad.

"Remarkable new wave British Jazz ..........conceptually bracing and sonically satisfying." ****Indpendent on Sunday.

No 1 in the Jazzwise listening chart for August 2005.

Tõzai

Saturday 4th March, LSO St Lukes
161 Old Street, London, EC1V 9NG
Box Office 020 7638 8891
www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes

7.30pm

Tickets £13.00, £11.50 concession

• Akira Ifukube; Violin Sonata (1985)
• Gavin Bryars; Toru's Mist (2001)
• Peter Wiegold; New Work
• Plus other works by Japanese and British composers

Ensemble Tõzai is delighted to be working for the first time with innovative composer/performer Peter Wiegold. The material he writes will be used as a basis for extensive development and improvisation during the rehearsal period, the end result being a truly collaborative work. Other elements of the event will include the Violin Sonata by Akira Ifukube, and the second only London performance of 'Toru's Mist' by Gavin Bryars.

Icebreaker

Tuesday 7th March, QEH
Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
0870 401 8181
www.rfh.org.uk

7.45pm

Tickets £15.00, £12.50 concession

Performing some of their most startling and original pieces, Icebreaker (www.icebreaker.org.uk) brings their punchy, effervescent music to the IF Festival. Their concert includes a rare opportunity to hear one of Philip Glass's most definitive early pieces, Music with Changing Parts - following on from their sold out concert last summer at the Almeida Theatre, Icebreaker give only the 2nd public performance in 30 years. The concert also includes music by Zappa and Nancarrow, with recent pieces by John Godfrey, Joe Hughes plus Erik Bnger's original take on That's the Way I Like It by KC & the Sunshine Band

Icebreaker's Michael-Nyman-on-amphetamines approach brings out the furious precision of the music.
Roger Thomas, BBC Music Magazine

"a harmolodic carnival of battling textures, symphonic discombobulations, and noisy innovations, all delivered with the visceral force of the best rock'n'roll"
Tristram Lozaw Boston Herald

• Icebreaker are:
• James Poke - Flutes, Pan-Pipes, Wind-Synth, Keyboard Programming
• Rowland Sutherland - Flutes, Pan-Pipes
• Richard Craig - Saxes, Conducting
• Christian Forshaw - Saxes
• Bradley Grant - Saxes
• Dominic Saunders - Keyboards
• Andrew Zolinsky - Keyboards
• Ian Watson - Accordian, Keyboards
• Emma Welton - Electric Violin
• Audrey Riley - Electric Cello, Keyboards
• James Woodrow - Percussion
• Pete Wilson - Bass Guitar, Guitars

Alexander's Annexe, with Sarah Nicolls, Mira Calix and David Sheppard and The Camberwell Composers Collective

Sunday 12th March
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road
London, W12 7LJ

7.30pm

Tickets £12.00, £9.00 concession

To avoid booking fees ticket can be purchased at Bush Hall Box Office, situated inside ' The Music House', 306 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush. Box Office 0208 222 6933 www.bushhallmusic.co.uk

The first set of this exciting double bill comes from the Camberwell Composers Collective. Five composers (Mark Bowden, Emily Hall, Chris Mayo, Anna Meredith, Matt Rogers) form diverse musical backgrounds are becoming well known for their eclectic programmes and collaborations with performers. The second set is from pianist Sarah Nicolls' newly formed ensemble with electronic gurus Mira Calix (warp Records) and David Sheppard (Sound Intermedia). They will perform new works exploring the creative possibilities that contemporary instrumental techniques, live-ekectronic manipulation and compiled electronic sound can bring. The performance will also include the premiere of a new piece for Sarah and live electronics, instigated by the festival's Music Orbit initiative.

Event will be preceeded by Speed Dating 2 for composers and players - see Music Orbit activities for details.

MooV

Tuesday 21st March, The Spitz
Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market,
London, E1 6BG
Box Office 020 7392 9032
www.spitz.co.uk

8.00pm

Tickets £10.00

Colin Riley's new band MooV with Olivia Chaney (voice) and Howie Bailey (VJ artist), recently described in the press as performing 'sassy and sophisticated new music' defies categorization. Subdued lyricism and subtle, unpredictable melodies combine with electronic tintinnabulation and spare, yet complex instrumental soundscapes. Performing material from their forthcoming debut album, the ensemble blur all the edges of contemporary music mixing in state-of-the art visual presentations and an essential amount of improvisation.

'There are many intelligent musicians whose work defies casual categorization. The composer Colin Riley is one such musician.'

• Olivia Chaney - voiced
• Colin Riley - keyboards/electronics
• Zoe Martlew - cello
• Pete Wilson - bass guitar
• Rob Millett - percussion
• Ben Jarlett - sound manipulation
• Howie Bailey - live VJ-ing

Southbank Sinfonia

Thursday 30th March, St. John's, Waterloo
Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY
Tickets on the door.
www.southbanksinfonia.co.uk

6.00pm - 7.00pm First half
supper break
8.30pm - 9.30pm Second half

Tickets free on the door

Presented as part of their innovative 'Rush Hour' series this concert from the Southbank Sinfonia includes Steve Reich's 8 Lines, Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Joe Duddell's 'Snowblind' for Percussion Strings plus a host of festival commissions from Andrew Melvin, Jamie Telford, Luke Anthony and Sergio Kafijan. The evening incorporates a 'supper break' between the two halves of the concert.

Alex Balanescu / Ada Milea: The Island

Bush Hall, Sunday 9th April, 7.30pm
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road
London, W12 7LJ

7.30pm

Tickets £13, £9 conc

To avoid booking fees ticket can be purchased at Bush Hall Box Office, situated inside ' The Music House', 306 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush. Box Office 0208 222 6933 www.bushhallmusic.co.uk

The performers will be Alex Balanescu (www.balanescu.com) (violin & concertina) and Ada Milea (vocals).

Romania - politics, place and stories - form the inspiration for this new work devised by Alex Balenescu and singer Ada Milea, one of the most fascinating and radical artists working in Romania today. Sharing similar feelings about the new society in eastern Europe, and the role of music and musical theatre in contributing to its development, this fascinating new work will be comprised of songs both in English and Romanian with instrumental music and visuals based on the poetic imagery.