Ambika P3, 2013, an installation by emptyset. Photo: James Ginzberg'LCMF has punch and panache'
The Times
★★★★★
'A festival that was all highlights'
The Wire
'The capital's most adventurous and ambitious festival of new music' (The Guardian) is back for its sixth edition. Returning to the epic, subterranean surroundings of Ambika P3, LCMF 2017 offers a week of multi-disciplinary events and new commissions.
Among the many highlights will be a rare visit from pioneering vocalist Joan La Barbara, who will perform her own ground-breaking compositions. Further radical vocalism will be explored by acclaimed improviser Elaine Mitchener, who, with the cream of UK jazz, will be presenting highly charged work by Jeanne Lee, Joseph Jarman, Archie Shepp and Eric Dolphy.
The great Apartment House will again be our resident ensemble. They will present new commissions from two rising stars, artist Sarah Hughes and composer/conductor Jack Sheen, and rarely heard work by two cult experimentalists Robert Ashley and Chris Newman.
Three nights are dedicated to the idea of the New Intimacy, excavating the sensual, erotic and haptic in music, art and film. This will include a screening of The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop, a forgotten feminist porn film scored by Pauline Oliveros, work by artists Carolee Schneemann and Kajsa Magnarsson, music by the Wandelweiser collective and their allies and a performance from Fluxus legend Philip Corner and his partner, Judson Church-choreographer Phoebe Neville.
From our seven-hour opener by Ragnar Kjartansson to our intense live sets from Pan Daijing and Moor Mother, from the premiere of Yasunao Tone's latest explosive noise work to an excavation of Wild Pop, LCMF 2017 promises to be a bold and broad look at new music today.
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