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Wigmore Hall
20 November 2025
THE ARTIST IS NOT PRESENT
Wigmore Hall
£40/£37/£33/£27/£18
BOOK TICKETS
7.30pm
Jennifer Walshe
New Work (2025)
(world premiere)(LCMF/Wigmore Hall co-commission)
Clarence Barlow
Im Januar Am Nil (1981-84)
Hanne Darboven
Opus 17a (1984)
(world premiere of new version for drum kit)
Conlon Nancarrow
Studies for Player Piano (1948-1970)
Nos 3a, 12, 20, 25 and 36
Eyleif Mullen-White
At the Academy of Projectors (1972)
Caoimhín Breathnach
Breathnóir (2007)
W.A. Mozart (attrib.) / C.P.E. Bach
Selection of 18th-century Musikalisches Wùrfelspiele (Musical Dice-Games)
Artists:
Explore Ensemble
Jennifer Walshe voice
George Barton drum kit
Dominic Murcott player piano
The London Contemporary Music Festival returns to the Wigmore Hall with a short history of algorithmic music, from the age of Mozart to the modern day.
Explore Ensemble and percussionist George Barton will showcase the extraordinary work of two cult figures from the world of computational music: Im Januar am Nil (1981-84) by composer Clarence Barlow (1945-2023) and Opus 17a (1984), in a new version for drum kit, by the artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009).
Composer Dominic Murcott will present several wild contrapuntal works from the 1950s-1970s for player piano by the great Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) (on a replica of Nancarrow's own player piano).
And Jennifer Walshe will return with a new commission for voice and ensemble, plus works by two mysterious Irish composers Eyleif Mullen-White (1937-1988) and Caoimhín Breathnach (1934-2009), both remarkable algorithmic pioneers.
We begin, however, with W.A Mozart (1756-1791) and C.P.E. Bach (1714-1788), presenting an extremely rare outing of a selection of Musikalisches Wùrfelspiele (Musical Dice-Games), early examples of procedural composition that took the Enlightenment by storm.