1 - 15 April 2013
Previews by Barry Esson
|
|
The Sampler e-Shot features the most exciting events in new music and sound every fortnight, selected independently by a different guest previewer each issue. Events are selected from The Sampler website, the UK’s most comprehensive listings website for new music and sound, generated entirely by users.
This issue's guest previewer is Director of Arika, Barry Esson.
|
 Kan Mikami | Kan Mikami and Alex Neilson
Date: Tuesday 2 - Wednesday 3 April
Venue: Café Oto, London
These promise to be fascinating, high energy performances. Mikami certainly caught the attention of The Wire’s Nick Cain, who writes about “the magnetism of Mikami’s presence” and the “passion and emotion embedded in his songs.” This is definitely worth a look. Read More>>
|  Peter Brötzman | Counterflows
Dates: Friday 5 – Sunday 7 April
Venue: various in Glasgow
Glasgow has a great history of experimental music festivals, and Counterflows is really taking up the baton. With performances by musicians including Peter Brötzman, Phill Niblock and Paul Abbot (and many more), I’ll be sure to attend. Read More>>
|  Marshall Allen | Cinema Soloriens - Marshall Allen
Date: Tuesday 2 April
Venue: Glasgow Stereo, Glasgow
Marshall Allen is a musician with much to say on notions of freedom, his work engages with the choices to be made between bringing on-stage performances into everyday life, versus bringing what happens in life onto the stage... Read More>>
|  (C) Ultra-red | Re: Assembly - Ultra-red
Dates: Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 April
Venue: various in London
I couldn't resist looking ahead to next fortnight's listings, with a series of performances and installations by Ultra-red. This art collective are making an important proposal for the development of how, and what, we consider as music: instead of defining music as the organisation of sounds, they suggest a process of organised listening, in which organising is understood in its political sense, and all of the listening tools of experimental music are applied in the development of a shared political understanding of our conditions of existence. Read More>>
|  |
|
Guest previewer - Barry Esson
Barry Esson works for Arika. Their upcoming events include: Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Jazz, poetry, improvisation and the performance of freedom; and Hidden in Plain Sight - Radical performances of gender and sexuality, made visible through voguing, drag, dance, mimicry, clubbing, failure or trauma.
arika.org.uk
|
|
Published by Sound and Music
|
Supported by Arts Council England
|
|
Sound and Music
|
Somerset House
|
Strand
|
London
|
WC2R 1LA
|
info@soundandmusic.org
|
0207 759 1800
|
|
It's a good idea to add our email address to your address book - it will stop your computer from thinking we're sending you junk mail. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to one or more Sound and Music emails. Unsubscribe
|
|
|
.jpg){kind=icon}
_0.jpg){kind=icon}
