12 December:
Not sorry
Hackney Church
£15/£25/£45/£69
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Doors open: 7pm
Music starts: 7.30pm
∈Y∋ + C.O.L.O
Live
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
New work (2024)
(world premiere)(LCMF commission)
Steve Beresford / Edward George / Maggie Nicols
Live
Charles Ives
Take-Off No. 3: Rube Trying to Walk 2 to 3!! (1906-1909)
(world premiere)
Film by Jon Rafman
Joanna Ward/Laurie Ward
Sissy études: Houdini (2024)
(world premiere)(LCMF commission)
Matt Copson
LET’S CREATE: PART 2 (2024)
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)
James Clarke
2016-E (2016)
(UK premiere)
Laila Arafah
keeping expectations to the absolute minimum so the disappointment will reciprocate (2024)
(world premiere)(LCMF commission)
Melinda Maxwell
Live improvisation on the aulos
Andrew Hamilton
The Heavens (2014)
(world premiere)
Artists:
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Tetsuo Yamatsuka (∈Y∋)
Yasumichi Miura (C.O.L.O)
Explore Ensemble (Arafah, Clarke, Ives)
Steve Beresford piano
Edward George
Maggie Nichols vocals
Café Rat (Joanna Ward, Laurie Ward)
Melinda Maxwell aulos
Andrew Hamilton piano, vocals
We open with the last sounds that Plato heard. Reeds specialist Melinda Maxwell will be present an improvisation on the aulos, a double-reed pipe instrument that – it was discovered at Herculaneum earlier this year – was being played to the Greek philosopher by a Thracian slave-girl on his final evening alive.
We welcome several celebrated artists: ∈Y∋, legendary vocalist of Boredoms, Hanatarash and Naked City, who’ll be presenting new work with cult VJ C.O.L.O, a new performance-lecture by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, an AI movie inspired by Reddit by Jon Rafman and LET’S CREATE: PART 2 another in a series of new sound works by Matt Copson.
Continuing our 10th anniversary focus on London’s experimental scene, Explore Ensemble presents new work by composer Laila Arafah and unsung British modernist James Clarke, and there’s Sissy études: Houdini, by Café Rat (aka the sisters Joanna and Laurie Ward), ‘a meditation on the life and work one of the great artists of the 21st century; on magic; and on love.’ The night will also witness the birth of a new improv super group, made up of three gods of underground music in London: pianist Steve Beresford, writer Edward George and vocalist Maggie Nicols.
To end we celebrate the 150th birthday of one of modernism’s greatest tricksters: Charles Ives. On the score of his chamber work Take-off No.3: Rube Trying to Walk 2 to 3!! (1906), a transcription of a friend’s drunken stumble home, Ives noted: ‘written as a joke, and sounds like one! Watty McCormick only one to see it! And Harry Farrar! At 2.45 A.M.’ Explore Ensemble presents its belated world premiere.