1 - 15 September 2012
Previews by Deirdre Gribbin
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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 composer Deirdre Gribbin.
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 Morton Feldman | Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories
Date: Saturday 8 September
Venue: Schott Recital Room, London
Not often do we get the opportunity of being immersed in Morton Feldman’s seminal work for solo piano, written in 1981 towards the end of his life. The score explores a series of the smallest of harmonic fragments and chords repeated for open-ended spans of time, with half pressed sustain pedal. The composer describes it as “a conscious attempt at formalizing a disorientation of memory”. Pianist Luke Berryman undertakes the challenge. Read More>>
|  Hannah Marshall | Balanya / Hannah Marshall / Barcode Quartet
Date: Sunday 9 September
Venue: Cafe Oto, London
Cafe Oto continually shows real strength in its programming. It’s a wonderful location and with a great café you can really make a night of it. This eclectic mix of musicians, really push the boundaries of sound and technique. Read More>>
|  | Writtle Calling / 2 Emma Toc
Dates: Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 September
Venue: Grounds of Writtle College, Chelmsford, Essex
Broadcasting on 87.7FM (local area only) and online at writtlecalling.co.uk
The UK's first regular radio station, 2 Emma Toc, is celebrated with a series of programmes featuring contemporary work from Marina Warner and Resonance Radio Orchestra, as well as Max Eastley's magical Aeolian Arc instruments. The temporary radio structure will be located near to the site of the original 2 Emma Toc station, which broadcast from Writtle every Tuesday in 1922. Read More>>
|  Featured artist Luke Fowler | ICA - Soundworks
Dates: Friday 14 - Saturday 15 September
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
For me, this is the highlight of the summer-long Festival of Sound at The ICA, which explores the impact and placement of sound in art. This two-day event is a must for all composers and artists. I look forward to the rare screening of short films by pioneers Peggy Ashwesh, Edgard Varese, Iannis Xenakis and Le Corbusier, and to the provocative discussions to follow. Read More>>
|  David Toop | David Toop - Star-shaped Biscuit
Date: Saturday 15 September
Venue: Building 9, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Carrying on Aldeburgh’s ground breaking Faster Than Sound series, David Toop's opera Star-shaped Biscuit receives its premiere in a disused warehouse space. Toop writes “A ghost story, perhaps? In a draughty room, on an island in a remote place, Dora waits implacably for apocalypse, the end of everything, a great silence. She waits for water to cover her island as the great melting returns us to the sea." This makes for an intriguing evening. Read More>>
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Guest previewer - Deirdre Gribbin
Gribbin is currently Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at The MRC Laboratory in Cambridge. Her piece Reflected Glory, for cello and film, will premiere at Huddersfield Festival in November. Gribbin’s chamber music will be released on NMC label Spring 2013. She is currently Chair ISCM British Section.
deirdregribbin.com
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