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    LCMF 2014: The Music of Bernard Parmegiani

    by 5:4 March 24, 2014 • 15:31
    March 24, 2014 • 15:31

    Festivals acquire a significant part of their character from geographical context, and London Contemporary Music Festival could hardly have picked a better location for their three-day exploration of the music of Bernard Parmegiani. Second Home, a new performance space in Shoreditch, is just off the road—and thereby infused with the…

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    The Start of an Era: Bristol New Music 2014

    by 5:4 February 24, 2014 • 23:56
    February 24, 2014 • 23:56

    Ordinarily, finding yourself traipsing along cold, dark, damp streets from concert to concert of cutting edge music, you’d expect the time to be late autumn and the place to be Huddersfield. Except this time it was the streets and venues of Bristol that were the focus of attention, for the…

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    An acousmatic revelation: BEAST – Pioneers of Sound, Birmingham

    by 5:4 February 3, 2014 • 21:28
    February 3, 2014 • 21:28

    Last weekend Birmingham was treated to what will surely be regarded as one of the highlights of the 2014 electronic music calendar. Presented by Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), Pioneers of Sound was a 3-day festival primarily exploring works by three of the central figures of acousmatic music, François Bayle,…

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    HCMF 2013: John Zorn day

    by 5:4 November 22, 2013 • 23:59
    November 22, 2013 • 23:59

    How do you solve a problem like John Zorn? How do you reconcile the disparate works of a composer equally at home in the worlds of (among others) free jazz, avant garde experimentalism, choral, noise rock, easy listening and hardcore, and whose music moves freely, even wilfully, between these worlds…

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    HCMF 2013: n s m b l

    by 5:4 November 21, 2013 • 19:51
    November 21, 2013 • 19:51

    All good noise reduction filters have an option to invert their output, effectively delivering only the removed audio information, mainly hiss and microscopic blurps, along with thin slivers of the primary audio material, little more than the most anaemic of glimpses, hinting at what lies on the other side. These…

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    HCMF 2013: Quatuor Diotima / edges ensemble

    by 5:4 November 20, 2013 • 14:21
    November 20, 2013 • 14:21

    St Paul’s Hall saw the UK première of no less than two major works last night: one, a large-scale cycle, the other, a full-blown epic. i want to discuss them together, not because they are in any way connected, but because hearing them one after the other brought about interesting…

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    HCMF 2013: Séverine Ballon

    by 5:4 November 19, 2013 • 16:30
    November 19, 2013 • 16:30

    Today’s first concert was given by French cellist Séverine Ballon. Her recital comprised UK premières by Hèctor Parra and Mauro Lanza and a world première by Rebecca Saunders, together with a classic of the repertoire, James Dillon‘s Parjanya-Vata, composed in 1981. It was especially good to hear this again; it’s…

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    HCMF 2013: Shorts

    by 5:4 November 19, 2013 • 10:38
    November 19, 2013 • 10:38

    There’s a curious phenomenon that seems to strike people the longer they spend at HCMF: a cross between regret and guilt at the events they’re not attending. i periodically suffer from it myself, and never more so than on their annual ‘Shorts’ day, which took place yesterday. Fifteen small- and…

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    HCMF 2013: Quatuor Diotima

    by 5:4 November 18, 2013 • 01:05
    November 18, 2013 • 01:05

    This morning saw Brian Ferneyhough back at St Paul’s Hall, his music this time being performed by the outstanding Quatuor Diotima, alongside works by Gérard Pesson, Miroslav Srnka and György Ligeti. Ligeti’s 1968 String Quartet No. 2 came last in the concert, but i mention it first because—as Ligeti’s music always…

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    HCMF 2013: Ensemble Linea + Irvine Arditti

    by 5:4 November 17, 2013 • 20:56
    November 17, 2013 • 20:56

    The final concert yesterday took place, once again, in St Paul’s Hall, featuring Ensemble Linea, conducted by Jean-Philippe Wurtz. It featured three new works, by Brian Ferneyhough, Raphaël Cendo and James Clarke. Ferneyhough and Clarke appear at first to come from different points of origin; Ferneyhough states that he cannot…

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    HCMF 2013: London Sinfonietta

    by 5:4 November 16, 2013 • 23:03
    November 16, 2013 • 23:03

    Truth be told, it isn’t often i find myself lost for words. About 40 minutes ago, the London Sinfonietta finished their performance of the UK première of Georg Friedrich Haas‘ in vain, and i’m still trying to force some coherence about the experience. A few weeks back, i procured a…

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    HCMF 2013: BBC Singers

    by 5:4 November 16, 2013 • 19:50
    November 16, 2013 • 19:50

    Today’s second concert was back in St Paul’s Hall, featuring the BBC Singers conducted by Nicholas Kok, performing works by Charlotte Seither, Bent Sørensen and Cecilie Ore. Surprisingly, it’s an entire decade since the BBC Singers last appeared at HCMF; on the strength of this concert, one hopes they’ll be…

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    HCMF 2013: Red Note Ensemble

    by 5:4 November 16, 2013 • 19:06
    November 16, 2013 • 19:06

    This year’s pilgrimage to HCMF began, as it always seems to, at St Paul’s Hall, for a concert given this afternoon by Scotland’s Red Note Ensemble, directed by Garry Walker. They performed three works, something old(-ish), something new(-ish) and something entirely new. It was the entirely new piece, David Fennessy‘s…

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    Ny lydkunst i Bergen

    by 5:4 July 28, 2013 • 18:03
    July 28, 2013 • 18:03

    My recent travels in Norway – focused in and around the environs of second city Bergen – yielded plenty of jaw-droppingly splendorous landscape, but nothing in the way of contemporary music. Neither of the city’s CD stores betray any knowledge of the existence of Arne Nordheim, Maja Ratke and the…

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    HCMF 2012: Cikada Ensemble

    by 5:4 November 26, 2012 • 17:43
    November 26, 2012 • 17:43

    The last concert i attended in my weekend at HCMF 2012 took place back in Bates Mill, in the company of Norway’s remarkable Cikada Ensemble, whom i’ve been fortunate to hear on a number of occasions. More than most, Cikada tend to give off an air of almost aggressive fearlessness,…

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    HCMF 2012: Arditti Quartet

    by 5:4 November 24, 2012 • 11:57
    November 24, 2012 • 11:57

    The second day of my HCMF experience began once again in St Paul’s Hall, confronted by the understated marvel that is the Arditti Quartet. Despite the palpable excitement that pervaded the previous day’s concerts, the atmosphere in the hall on this occasion was that unique kind of highly-charged tension that…

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    HCMF 2012: Ensemble Resonanz

    by 5:4 November 22, 2012 • 22:14
    November 22, 2012 • 22:14

    The first day of my weekend at HCMF ended back where it had begun, in St Paul’s Hall, for a late-night concert by Ensemble Resonanz, conducted by Peter Rundel. The concert was broadcast live on Radio 3 and comprised just three pieces, all focusing on strings, two of which featured…

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    HCMF 2012: Oslo Sinfonietta

    by 5:4 November 18, 2012 • 20:35
    November 18, 2012 • 20:35

    Following a collection of strangers down a bleak back street to a gloomy factory and then passing through a makeshift entrance labelled ‘The Blending Shed’ might sound like the makings of a nightmare, but this was the way in which i found myself at Bates Mill, for yesterday evening’s concert…

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    HCMF 2012: Heather Roche

    by 5:4 November 18, 2012 • 11:19
    November 18, 2012 • 11:19

    Yesterday the evening began with clarinettist Heather Roche, of whom multiple friends have spoken warmly but i had never heard play. The recital took place deep in the bowels of the University’s temple-like Creative Arts building, and comprised a selection of pieces incorporating electronics. Quite a few of them—Aaron Einbond’s…

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    HCMF 2012: Nicolas Hodges

    by 5:4 November 17, 2012 • 19:22
    November 17, 2012 • 19:22

    My HCMF 2012 experience began at midday today in St Paul’s Hall, with Nicolas Hodges’ lunchtime recital featuring piano music by Jean Barraqué. It’s rare, but marvellous, when a concert can be genuinely eye-opening, and everything about this recital was just that. Before the concert, i knew very little of…

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