Sound and Music

1pm
Kate Ryder

A striking audio visual event featuring a unique collection of Toy Pianos dating from 1904. John Cage’s prepared piano, Catherine Kontz’s shadow puppets, music boxes, visuals and the other-worldly sounds of the Theremin complete the mix.

John Cage Suite for Toy Piano
Stephen Montague Mirabella
Simon Katan The Slightly Variations
Yumi Hara Cawkwell Farouche
Catherine Kontz Siegfried and Melusina
Roger Redgate Koan II (wp)
John Cage Music for Marcel Duchamp
Thanos Chrysakis Passage Dangereux
Errollyn Wallen Louis' Loops

4.30pm
Ah! You Sitting Comfortably: Vicky Wright (clarinet) Peter Willcock (voice/actor)

Inspired by storytelling using music with spoken word, actions and sounds., Ah! You … perform classic works that redefined music theatre by Kagel and Aperghis with new pieces by Stephen McNeff, Adam de la Cour, Gabriel Prokofiev and Mariam Rezaei.

Georges Aperghis from Jactations
Adam de la Cour new work
Mauricio Kagel Atem
Stephen McNeff Flimminilap
Gabriel Prokofiev The Lonely Giant
Mariam Rezaei Ah! You Sqratching Comfortably asks the audience, Ah! they....?
Matthew Shlomowitz Adams, Blackburn, Camomile, Djibouti and Eurohound

8pm

Catherine Laws: Piano and Other Things

Explosive, playful, meditative: music by Yannis Kyriakides and Donnacha Dennehy and composed for Catherine by Juliana Hodkinson, Edward Jessen and David Prior explores the piano’s expressive vibrancy, in dramatic interplay with other sounds or focused on subtle resonances in Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari.

Edward Jessen Chambre 119
Yannis Kyriakides hYDAtorization
David Prior Other Spaces
Donnacha Dennehy pAt
Juliana Hodkinson When the Wind Blows
Morton Feldman Palais de Mari

Tickets:

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