8pm
Peter Zinovieff / Aisha Orazbayeva OUR TOO, a concerto for violin and computer (2014) (world premiere)
Conlon Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano (1948 - 1992) (a selection)
Tom Challenger / Kit Downes Wedding Music (2014)
Supersilent Live set
Performers
Johan Berntsen live sound, production (Supersilent)
Tom Challenger saxophone
Kit Downes hammond organ
Arve Henriksen electronics, voice, trumpet (Supersilent)
Aisha Orazbayeva violin
Helge Sten electronics (Supersilent)
Ståle Storløkken keyboards, electronics (Supersilent)
Peter Zinovieff computer
For this event we venture to the wild, fraying edges of electronic music and musical mechanisation, with a landmark new commission from legendary synth pioneer Peter Zinovieff and violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, a performance by Norwegian improvisers Supersilent (pictured below) and a presentation (by Dominic Murcott) of several of Conlon Nancarrow's celebrated studies for player piano.
Zinovieff's new commission, the second of his collaborative pieces with Orazbayeva (pictured below at LCMF 2013), sees the composer using newer computer technology while also returning to the sounds and techniques of the VCS3 - which revolutionised electronic music in being the first ever portable, mass-produced synthesiser.
Before this Kit Downes and Tom Challenger present the latest version of Wedding Music for hammond organ and saxophone. And we end the night with the elemental electronics of Supersilent, who marry blistering synth lines with a propulsive sense of rhythm.
Lead photo credits
1-3: Tom Cawley
4: Dimitri Djuric