15 - 30 September 2012
Previews by Peter Wiegold
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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, conductor and creative director Peter Wiegold.
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 | Colourscape Music Festival
Dates: Saturday 15 - Sunday 23 September
Venue: Colourscape, Clapham Common, London
A welcome return for the Colourscape Festival, taking place in ‘a huge inflatable structure consisting of almost 100 brightly coloured chambers radiating from a cathedral-like performance space’. Festival directors Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher are offering a wonderful variety of acts, including music from the Elysian Quartet, Rhodri Davies, Laura Cannell and Stephen Mark Barchan. Read More>>
|  Graham Fitkin | London Sinfonietta
Date: Sunday 16 September
Venue: Kings Place, London
Minimalism is now firmly established as a musical form in every school music exam (although I don’t know if its been recently downgraded). Whatever it is, it is celebrated by the London Sinfonietta at Kings Place with two concerts in the same evening. Performaces will feature the music of Steve Reich, Graham Fitkin and Laurence Crane. Good to see Laurence’s work in particular getting the profile it deserves. Kings Place has been created with real vision, and it is now firmly established as a vital part of the British new music scene. Read More>>
|  Martin Speake | Martin Speake/ Mike Outram/ Jeff Williams
Date: Tuesday 18 September
Venue: The Forge, London
It can sometimes seem as if contemporary jazz struggles to emerge from be-bop but here’s three incredibly inventive musicians, led by saxophonist Martin Speake, whose forms include ‘meditative ballads, trance like grooves, free improvisation, minimalism, jazz standard, songs, Arabic music and heavy metal guitar’. Read More>>
|  Evan Parker | Trance Map
Date: Thursday 20 September
Venue: Vortex Jazz Club, London
The vitality and fluidity of Evan Parker's playing is undiminished, and he could be said to be at the head of a unique free improvisation scene in Britain, that is also seeing increasingly fruitful crossovers with other kinds of music-making. Here, he plays with the witty and inventive Matt Wright on turntables and Toma Gouband on a stone drum set, presenting Trance Map, a ‘real-time version of their psi CD, which blurs the distinction between playing, mixing and editing, filtered through the silicon of the hard drive’. Read More>>
|  Robert Ashley | Robert Ashley - Vidas Perfectas
Dates: Friday 28 - Sunday 30 September
Venue: Serpentine Gallery (28 September) and Café OTO, London
The legendary experimental American composer Robert Ashley (a member of the Sonic Arts Union, along with David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma), will be at Café OTO for three days with Vidas Perfectas, an ambitious new Spanish-language opera based on his Perfect Lives, directed by composer Alex Waterman. Read More>>
|  Alexander Goehr | BCMG - The Fathers are Watching
Date: Sunday 30 September
Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham
BCMG are a treasure of these contemporary music isles. Exquisitely planned, as ever, this 25th birthday concert includes a late piece by Messiaen for piano and string quartet, Webern’s Six Pieces for Orchestra and Ligeti’s Melodien. The performance includes a new work by Alexander Goehr, To these dark steps, setting texts by Gabriel Levon, written as a response to the Israeli incursion into Gaza in 2008. Directed by Oliver Knussen, the music will undoubtedly be played, as always, with care and devotion. Happy Birthday BCMG. Read More>>
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Guest previewer - Peter Wiegold
Peter Wiegold’s notes inégales present tableaux vivants at Kings Place on 1 October in the Out/Hear series, with live ‘animated’ scores by Michael Young and Martin Iddon, a premiere by Peter and a new realisation of Shuffle by Christian Marclay. His club inégales reopens on 18 October at Euston. Season guests range from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Will Self. notes inégales release their first studio-made cd in November, a homage to Miles Davis.
wiegold.co.uk
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