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		<title>LCMF 2026: Hot with Excess</title>
				
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LCMF 2026Hot with Excess3–22 Dec

180 Studios 
Ormside Projects &#124;&#38;nbsp;Tate Modern &#124; Wigmore Hall
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Lina Lapelytė / Morton Feldman / David Wojnarowicz / Marginal Consort / Lydia Ourahmane &#38;amp; Sophia Al-Maria / Michael Finnissy / Gelitin / Pat Thomas / Tony Conrad /  Foodman / Aaron Dilloway / Rebecca Saunders / Tarek Atoui / James Richards &#38;amp; Ora Clementi /&#38;nbsp;Anthony Braxton /  Cally Spooner / Robert Ashley / angelicism01 /  Anne Bean / Dana Dawud / Reg Bloor / Jessica Ekomane / Prison Religion / Vaiva Grainytė /&#38;nbsp; Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė /&#38;nbsp;Petronn Sphene / Laurie Tompkins / Laura Steenberge /  Carola Bauckholt / Wonderful Cringe /  Reona / Angharad Davies / Rhys Chatham / Dominic Lash / Phil Minton / Elaine Mitchener / Maggie Nicols / Glenn Branca / Ben Neill / Theodora Laird / Don Yallech / Saadet Türköz / Elvin Brandhi / Ian Pace / Dylan Nyoukis / Milan Knížák / Ken Jacobs /&#38;nbsp;Jack Sheen /  Ensemble Nikel / Plus-Minus Ensemble / Apartment House / The Flautadors / LCMF Orchestra</description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 11:59:50 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>About</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>

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― Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption (1949)
Saturation, spontaneity, the Icarian drive, paeans to polyphony, illegibility and the fever dream: the 2026 iteration of the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) will be Hot with Excess. Embracing the overlaps between music, opera, the visual arts, performance and the moving image, this 11th edition of the festival will deliberately – and gloriously – burst its banks over 14 events and four venues. 

Renouncing austerity, scarcity and aesthetic coolness, we uncover the radical possibility of surplus. In contrast to capitalist efficiency, each night embraces restlessness as a way for imagination, dissent, hope and failure, to be created for its own sake.&#38;nbsp;
Using the Gesamtkunstwerk as a starting point and framing mechanism, LCMF 2026 features its signature mix of restagings and new commissions of trans-disciplinary performance, showcasing the most forward-thinking musicians, visual artists and filmmakers working today.Exploring the operatic turn in art, orchestral maximalism, CoreCore cinema, the music of New Complexity, a focus on Japan’s wildest improvisers, and the liberation of long-duration: expect a challenge to the audience’s collective limit-experience. In offering abundance, we offer the expansive possibility to do more, think more, imagine more.
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The London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF)&#38;nbsp;was founded in 2013 to provide a home for the promiscuous music lover. Since then we’ve presented 10 critically-acclaimed multidisciplinary festivals and premiered over 100 works. Artists who we have commissioned and hosted, or whose works we’ve premiered, include: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Eliane Radigue, Julius Eastman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, Mica Levi, Lina Lapelyte, Tony Conrad, Klein, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jennifer Walshe, Yvonne Rainer, Charlemagne Palestine, Elaine Mitchener, EVOL, Rebecca Saunders, Glenn Branca, Moor Mother, Ed Atkins, Annea Lockwood, John Giorno, Laraaji, Timothy Morton, Amalia Ulman, Bhanu Kapil, Toby Jones, Nkisi, Gábor Lázár, Maryanne Amacher, Laurence Crane, Cassandra Miller, CA Conrad, Christian Marclay, Joan La Barbara, Fatima Al Qadiri, Morton Subotnick, Maggie Nicols, Gerald Barry, Katalin Ladik, Rashad Becker, Tyshawn Sorey, James Ferraro, Anne Bean, Ragnar Kjartansson, Pan Daijing, Robert Ashley, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sophia Al-Maria, Michael Finnissy, Mark Leckey.&#38;nbsp;
In 2016 we curated the world’s first retrospective dedicated to the work of composer Julius Eastman. In 2018 we founded the LCMF Orchestra, dedicated to commissioning work by composers who’d never written for the orchestra before, to those whose work rarely gets heard in Britain and to ambitious, spatialised orchestral pieces. In 2022 we became a charity and a biennial.&#38;nbsp;In 2025, at the Wigmore Hall, we presented one concert, exploring the pre-history of AI-adjacent music.&#38;nbsp;
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LCMF is run by writer/curator Igor Toronyi-Lalic and composer/conductor Jack Sheen and Antonia Blocker, the Artistic Director, Exhibitions (Maternity Cover) at Ikon Gallery. Our board of trustees are: 

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		<title>180 Box at 180 Studios</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:00:47 +0000</pubDate>

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180 Box at 180 Studios

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Address180 Box,
 180 Strand,
Surrey St,&#38;nbsp;
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WC2R 1EA

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180studios.com/The venue is entirely accessible.
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		<title>The Underground Cinema at 180 Studios</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:46:59 +0000</pubDate>

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The Underground Cinema at 180 Studios

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 180 Strand,
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		<title>3 Dec: American Gothic</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:25:30 +0000</pubDate>

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LCMF 2026
Hot with Excess3 December
American Gothic180 Box at 180 Studios

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BOOK TICKETSFirst release: £15/£25/£65/£115
Second release: £18/£28/£80/£130
On the door: £22/£32


Doors: 7pmMusic starts: 7.30pm

David Wojnarowicz / Ben NeillITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) (1989)
Anthony BraxtonComposition No. 9: 
For Four Amplified Shovels and A Pile of Coal (1969)(world premiere)Selection of work for double-bodied harmonics guitar and solo electric guitar by Reg Bloor and Glenn Branca


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Plus-Minus Ensemble (Braxton)
Reg Bloor electric guitarBen Neill Mutantrumpet/electronics (Wojnarowicz/Neill)
Don Yallech percussion/electronics (Wojnarowicz/Neill)


‘My mind cannot contain all that I see. I keep experiencing this sensation that my skin is too tight; civilization is expanding inside of me. Do you have a room with a better view?’
— David WojnarowiczFor our opening night, we present&#38;nbsp;David Wojnarowicz and Ben Neill’s Gesamtkunstwerk&#38;nbsp;In the Shadow of Forward Motion (ITSOFOMO), a visual and auditory onslaught, embodying the artist’s rage at America’s ineffectual reaction to the AIDS crisis. Performed by the composer&#38;nbsp;Ben Neill and original percussionist&#38;nbsp;Don Yallech, ITSOFOMO, one of the few live works by Wojnarowicz, premiered at The Kitchen in New York in 1989, shortly before he died from HIV/AIDS-related illness at the age of 37.

‘A formal, poetic meditation on acceleration... inspired by Paul Virilio's arguments regarding speed, violence, capital and technology in Pure War’ (Jennifer Doyle),&#38;nbsp;ITSOFOMO remains vital and urgent, a terrifying mirror to the USA’s contemporary crisis, where marginalised bodies are undervalued, policed and threatened.
Alongside this, we present work by two other American visionaries. Plus-Minus Ensemble gives the world premiere of a work from 1969 by one of the great avant-gardists, African-American composer Anthony Braxton. Four performers enter the space, dressed in dark boilersuits, hard-hats and mining lamps. A dumpster offloads a heap of coal and they shovel, action and sound transmuted into an electronic hellscape. 
And we welcome back composer and electric guitarist&#38;nbsp;Reg Bloor, lead guitarist in the Glenn Branca Ensemble, who performed in our first festival in 2013. She will present a selection of startling work for double-bodied harmonics guitar, an instrument invented by her late partner, the composer Glenn Branca.
 Image: Courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P·P·O·W, New York. Copyright Estate of David Wojnarowicz.</description>
		
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		<title>4 Dec: Things Fall Apart</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:38:03 +0000</pubDate>

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LCMF 2026
Hot with Excess4 December
Things Fall Apart180 Box at 180 Studios


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BOOK TICKETSFirst release: £15/£25/£65/£115Second release: £18/£28/£80/£130On the door: £22/£32
Doors: 7pmMusic starts: 7.30pm
Aaron DillowayLive
Cally SpoonerNew work (2026)(world premiere, LCMF commission)
Carola Bauckholt
Talking Minerals (2026)(world premiere, LCMF commission)
Jessica Ekomane
Manifolds (2022)(UK premiere)
Reona 
LiveDana Dawud
Palcorecore (2024)

Performers
The Flautadors recorders&#38;nbsp;(Bauckholt)Aaron Dilloway electronics
Jessica Ekomane live diffusionReona metal percussion
Excess is unstable and lossy. Therein lies its power and its beauty. It reaches for the heavens. The Icarian drive.On our second night we explore artists, forms and instruments that revel in this ambitious instability.&#38;nbsp;
Take the recorder: one of the most reviled members of the woodwind family yet one of the most enchanting, subtle – microtonal, fragile, the sound of breath itself. 
One of Germany’s great mavericks, composer Carola Baukcholt, presents her new commission Talking Minerals, overloading the ensemble&#38;nbsp;The Flautadors with over 20 recorders, of different shapes and sizes, in a wheezy, bendy anti-tour-de-force.&#38;nbsp;The genesis of Cally Spooner’s new Gesamtkunstwerk lies in her grandmother endlessly rearranging furniture; Mike Kelley unmaking a performance; a landslide. A relentless restlessness results, an un-optimisable choreographic intelligence that lets ideas move. 

The miked-up environments that cult noise virtuoso Aaron Dilloway sets up are always startling – the tiny movements of a chair might become a monstrous mountain range of electrostatic sound. We welcome the Michigan legend for a rare new live performance.No other form allows the artist to manipulate the possibilities of sonic collapse better than musique concrète. French composer&#38;nbsp;Jessica Ekomane presents the UK premiere of a live version of Manifolds&#38;nbsp;(2022), one of this century’s most outstanding acousmatic works.The festival’s focus on contemporary Japanese improvisation begins with tap dancer and metal percussionist Reona. She will play an orchestra of detritus, lovingly acquired from junk shops: an American stainless steel bowl from Yokosuka, an old transport-company billboard from Iwamizawa, a Taiwanese oil pot, South Indian meal plates, basins, chains, nets, a toy drum, a loudspeaker, plus two signboards from Okinawa: ‘one handed to her by a man who told her, please step on it; the other used during unexploded bomb disposal. "It accelerated my metallization.”’
We also present Palcorecore (2024), a classic of internet cinema by Palestinian artist Dana Dawud, which seems to demand that things fall apart in order that a people might live. A portrait of that white-hot desire for freedom and the possibility to imagine and play to our heart’s content.
 


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		<title>5 Dec: Music with Roots in the Aether, Parts 1-3</title>
				
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Hot with Excess5 December
Music with Roots in the Aether,Parts 1-3The Underground Cinema, 180 Studios

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The screening of Parts 4-7 will be on Saturday 12 DecemberDoors: 12.30pmScreenings start: 1pm

Robert AshleyMusic with Roots in the Aether (1976)&#38;nbsp;
(UK premiere)
1pm:
1. David Behrman
3pm:

2. Philip Glass
5pm:
3. Alvin Lucier 
 
Few composers stretched the possibilities of what an opera could be more than the American composer Robert Ashley. Seven years before his video-opera masterwork Perfect Lives, he made&#38;nbsp;Music with Roots in the Aether (1976), arguably an even more radical interpretation of what a Gesamtkunstwerk might look like.&#38;nbsp;Ostensibly a set of portraits of seven of the most important post-serial/post-Cage composers working in America at the time, Ashley called the work ‘a music-theater piece in color video’, seeing the interviews an act of theatre, and pairing these playful, hour-long head-to-heads with an hour-long film of each composer’s music:
‘The style of the video presentation comes from the need I felt to find a new way to show music being performed. The idea of the visual style of Music with Roots in the Aether is plain: to watch as closely as possible the action of the performers and to not "cut" the seen material in any way – that is, to not editorialize on the time domain of the music through arbitrary space-time substitutions.
‘The visual style for showing the music being made became the "theater" (the stage) for the interviews, and the portraits of the composers were designed to happen in that style.’ (Robert Ashley)Parts 1-3, featuring composers David Behrman, Philip Glass and Alvin Lucier, will receive their UK premiere public presentation on Saturday 5 December, 1pm. Parts 4-7, featuring composers Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley and Ashley himself, will receive their UK premiere on Saturday 12 December, 11am.</description>
		
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		<title>5 Dec: The Great Surplus</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:38:22 +0000</pubDate>

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Hot with Excess5 December
The Great Surplus180 Box at 180 Studios

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BOOK TICKETSFirst release: £15/£25/£65/£115Second release: £18/£28/£80/£130On the door: £22/£32Doors: 7pmMusic starts: 7.30pm
Pat Thomas
We shall Overcome Piano Concerto Number 1 (2026)
(world premiere, LCMF Orchestra commission)GelitinNew work (2026)(world premiere, LCMF Orchestra commission)
Laura SteenbergePerseus and the Rescue of Andromeda (chained melody) (2026)(world premiere, LCMF Orchestra commission)Laurie TompkinsThe Music (2026)(world premiere, LCMF Orchestra commission)
Anne Bean
Fever (2026)
(world premiere, LCMF commission)

Ken Jacobs
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street (2010)
Wonderful CringeIS THIS CRINGE? (or just the inexplicable sensation of being online) (2023)Foodman
Live


 Performers
LCMF Orchestra (Thomas, Tompkins, Steenberge, Gelitin)
Jack Sheen conductor

Pat Thomas piano
Anne BeanWolfgang Gantner, Florian Reither, Ali Janka and Tobias Urban (aka Gelitin)Takahide Higuchi (aka Foodman)

The orchestra is the vehicle for some of the most transcendent – and unhinged – attempts to harness the possibilities of excess. Our very own experiment with abundance, the LCMF Orchestra, returns with commissions from three former LCMF artists who have always thought in the most formally expansive, aesthetically restless ways. 
Pianist and improviser Pat Thomas wields Butch Morris’s&#38;nbsp; improvisatory method of conducting, Conduction®, to create&#38;nbsp;We shall Overcome Piano Concerto Number 1 featuring himself as the soloist. Experimental composer Laurie Tompkins gives us The Music, in which he sets himself up as a deranged crooner adrift from his band. Following on from&#38;nbsp;Perseus Slays the Gorgon Medusa and&#38;nbsp;I Only Have Eye For You,&#38;nbsp;Laura Steenberge’s Perseus and the Rescue of Andromeda (chained melody) completes a triptych of works that explore ancient mythology through the most carefully constructed rituals – a symphony for objects, movement, space and sound. And cult Viennese art collective&#38;nbsp;Gelitin will give the premiere of an ‘embarrassing and colourful’ spectacle that will implicate the orchestra and envelop the audience.

Continuing our focus on radical Japanese experimentation, footwork cubist Foodman (aka Takahide Higuchi)&#38;nbsp;returns to London with more wild electronic improvisation, following the release of his acclaimed new album HIKARIGASASHIKOMU on Hyperdub.

But we open with a screening of&#38;nbsp;The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street (2010) by legendary experimentalist filmmaker Ken Jacobs&#38;nbsp;that harnesses found footage of peddlers in New York's Lower East Side to create a transcendental paean to the worker. Artist Anne Bean returns to the festival with a new performance work, Fever, looking back at her fantastically fidgety performance practice. And we offer another hypnotic corecore short:&#38;nbsp;IS THIS CRINGE? (or just the inexplicable sensation of being online) (2023) by Wonderful Cringe (aka Nicholas Sanchez), which proves that more really is more.
Many thanks to the Austrian Cultural Forum – who celebrate their 70th anniversary this year – for supporting Gelitin’s visit and new commission
This concert is presented in association with Markson Pianos

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