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    HCMF 2017: Ensemble Grizzana

    by 5:4 November 29, 2017 • 17:49
    November 29, 2017 • 17:49

    Consider some of the qualities we might associate with the classical notion of holiness: vulnerable but resolute; at odds with easy, quick and cheap enticements in favour of a focus on that which is intangible and transcendent; superficially boring or stupid or quaint yet holding and exhibiting an absolute, unshakeable…

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    HCMF 2017: Laura Cannell, ICE + Distractfold + Fritz Hauser + Anne Bourne, Mix Tape

    by 5:4 November 28, 2017 • 17:24
    November 28, 2017 • 17:24

    As i’ve indicated previously, the non-partisan diversity of HCMF is impressively broad these days, and one of the concerts that best exemplified this took place in Bates Mill Photographic Studio on Saturday morning, in the company of Laura Cannell. To describe her as a composer and performer of folk music…

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    HCMF 2017: TAPE, The Riot Ensemble, Ensemble PHACE + Laura Bowler

    by 5:4 November 27, 2017 • 15:58
    November 27, 2017 • 15:58

    Having heard Thomas Lehn’s live rendition of Bogusław Schaeffer’s 1964 Symphony last thing on Thursday night, it couldn’t have been more perfect to have started Friday in the company of four more Polish electronic works, dating from around a decade later. Eugeniusz Rudnik‘s Ready Made (1977) took a collage approach to found sounds,…

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    HCMF 2017: Explore Ensemble, Polwechsel + John Butcher + Klaus Lang, Thomas Lehn

    by 5:4 November 25, 2017 • 11:25
    November 25, 2017 • 11:25

    One of last year’s exciting new discoveries at HCMF was the London-based Explore Ensemble, whose performance of Gérard Grisey’s Talea on ‘shorts’ day was easily among its most memorable events. Fittingly, this year Explore was invited back to give a full concert, which only reinforced that first impression from 2016. The…

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    HCMF 2017: We Spoke, London Sinfonietta + Irvine Arditti, GGR Betong

    by 5:4 November 23, 2017 • 23:57
    November 23, 2017 • 23:57

    Yesterday at HCMF was decidedly mixed. Contemporary music-making aiming to be radical, at the cutting edge, obviously involves risk. That risk in turn requires a considerable amount of trust: from commissioners and investors, stumping up the cash; from performers, committing to learn and perfect the material; from concert organisers, providing…

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    HCMF 2017: Gęba Vocal Ensemble, Zwerm

    by 5:4 November 22, 2017 • 13:51
    November 22, 2017 • 13:51

    A few days ago, in relation to the (non-)performance at HCMF of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, i considered the question of what noise might be the opposite of, as a means to help defining what noise can actually be. But noise doesn’t have to be regarded as an opposite,…

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    HCMF 2017: Shorts

    by 5:4 November 21, 2017 • 13:35
    November 21, 2017 • 13:35

    i’ve been starting to wonder in recent years whether HCMF’s annual ‘Shorts’ day – on Monday, filled with free concerts lasting either 20 or 40 minutes – is actually one of the festival’s main highlights, rivalling the flagship events on the two weekends. It’s certainly an opportunity for musical experiences…

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    HCMF 2017: Polish Radio Choir, Karin Hellqvist

    by 5:4 November 20, 2017 • 16:26
    November 20, 2017 • 16:26

    For the first twenty minutes of the concert given by the Polish Radio Choir in Huddersfield Town Hall yesterday, i was forming the view that, though what we’d heard seemed at odds with his description, Dai Fujikura had nonetheless composed not only two of his best ever works, but better than…

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    HCMF 2017: The Otheroom, Ensemble Modern + Arditti Quartet, zeitkratzer perform Kraftwerk

    by 5:4 November 19, 2017 • 18:52
    November 19, 2017 • 18:52

    Yesterday at HCMF was unusual, personally speaking, as for the most part it involved hearing music not for the first time. In the evening at St Paul’s Hall, Ensemble Modern and the Arditti Quartet gave the first UK performances of Carola Bauckholt‘s Laufwerk, Christopher Trapani‘s PolychROME and Brian Ferneyhough‘s 45-minute…

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    HCMF 2017: Red Note Ensemble, Metal Machine Music, Aeolian

    by 5:4 November 18, 2017 • 13:39
    November 18, 2017 • 13:39

    Here we go again (deep breath)… The opening concert of the 40th edition of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival immediately gave one pause for thought. What it wasn’t was a conventional wallop, a smack around the ears to wake us up out of our complacency, such as the one given…

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    HCMF 2017: complete programme

    by 5:4 July 28, 2017 • 10:11
    July 28, 2017 • 10:11

    Here it is at last, announced in the last few minutes is the complete programme for this year’s 40 edition of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, which begins in a little under four months’ time, running from Friday 17–Sunday 26 November. In addition to the highlights i’ve previously mentioned, there’s…

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    HCMF 2017: looking forward

    by 5:4 July 19, 2017 • 11:47
    July 19, 2017 • 11:47

    i’ve just returned from a few days in Poland, and before i get started on catch-up reviews of Cheltenham and the Proms, at a press conference in Warsaw a couple of days ago a slew of new announcements were made about this year’s 40th edition of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music…

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