David Toop Many Private Concerts (2015)
Anne Bean / Richard Wilson NALEMAG (2015) (world premiere)
Poulomi Desai Vermillion Sands (2015) (world premiere)
Neil Luck Via Gut (2015) (world premiere) (LCMF commission)
Charlie Hope From the Ether (2013)
Edward Henderson Tape Piece (2014)
Claudia Hunte The Elephant in the Room is Afraid of Dying (2014)
Shelley Parker Live set
John Wall Live set
Tom Mudd Live set
Visionist Live set (AV)
Performers
Squib Box (Luck):
Neil Luck (voice, misc.), Adam de la Cour (voice, guitar, misc.), Federico Reuben (live electronics), Tom Jackson (bass clarinet), Benedict Taylor (viola)
Kévin Bray video (Visionist)
Topophobia (Charlie Hope)
Utterpsalm and Contingent Events (John Wall, Tom Mudd)
W0B (Richard Wilson, Anne Bean)
Poulomi Desai
Bastard Assignments (Henderson):
Edward Henderson, Louis D'Heudieres, Timothy Cape, Alice Purton, Tom Kelly, Andy Ingamells, Josh Spear
Claudia Hunte
Shelley Parker
David Toop
Visionist
London takes centre stage in our opening night, as we celebrate the exploratory fringes of the city's music scene and the collective imperative that has been a spur to some of the capital's greatest experiments. The trajectory culminates with a landmark new AV performance from south London's Visionist, whose singular language emerges from the fragmentation of dubstep and grime.
The proliferation of collectives among young musician-composers is reflected in new commissions from some of the most adventurous of these musical laboratories. The night will include premieres from Neil Luck (Squib Box), John Wall & Tom Mudd (Utterpsalm and Contingent Events) and Charlie Hope (Topophobia).
We hear recent work by composers Edward Henderson (Bastard Assignments), Shelley Parker and the artist duo Claudia Hunte. We welcome an iconic figure and chronicler of London's musical edgelands, David Toop, and offer a live improvisation from Poulomi Desai (Usurp), who started the Hounslow Arts Co-op at the age of 14.
We also offer a world premiere from artists Richard Wilson and Anne Bean. In the 1980s, Anne Bean, Paul Burwell and Richard Wilson formed the legendary Bow Gamelan Ensemble, enthralled by the aural poetry and parallel visions of the Thames.
Now, Wilson and Bean enter the territory as W0B. Theirs is a world that cracks and splinters and grinds into being as it races backwards and forwards through friendships of 40 years. NALEMAG becomes the totemic incarnation of their endless scrabbling around boat-yards, scrap-yards, gas depots, pyrotechnic munitions, voyages on many rivers in countless vessels and a frenzy of carrying, welding, investigating and making across the planet.
Images
1 Bow Gamelan performance
2 Visionist
3 Topophobia performance