The London Sinfonietta presents TURNING POINTS: SOUND UNWRAPPED featuring new music by Ailís Ní Ríain and David Fennessy
Hall One, Kings Place
The London Sinfonietta explores the boundary between sound and music for TURNING POINTS: SOUND UNWRAPPED, a programme of electro-acoustic music and manipulated sound featuring music by CMC Composers Ailís Ní Ríain and David Fennessy.
London Sinfonietta’s Sound Unwrapped is part of an award-winning concert series at Kings Place which explores manipulated sound in music. It is preceded by a pre-concert performance and talk about Artificial Intelligence in music and followed by a late-night performance of electronic tape pieces in Soundscape.
The schedule for the evening:
6.30pm, Kings Place Hall 2: Artificial Intelligence in Music
Explore the complex and exciting relationship between Artificial Intelligence and electronic music with composer and Professor in Computer Music, Eduardo Miranda. Miranda is a leading musical innovator whose recent projects delve into the field of human-machine interfaces, where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands. Tonight’s pre-concert event will feature a new piece by Miranda, which traverses the advent of AI and pushes music beyond conventional bounds. This exciting premiere will be followed by a discussion between Miranda and other experts working with AI.
Eduardo Miranda Qubism (world premiere)
7.30pm, Kings Place Hall 1: main concert
The London Sinfonietta performs a range of contemporary pieces which explore the boundary between sound and music, contrasting the virtuosity of acoustic instruments with the huge variety of sound made possible by electronics.
Jonathan Harvey - Ricercare una melodia
Kaija Saariaho - NoaNoa
Luciano Berio - Naturale
David Fennessy - The Room is the Resonator
Dai Fujikura - K's Ocean
Ailís Ní Ríain - doomed, done for, damned, and still (London Sinfonietta commission, world premiere)
Christian Mason - I wandered for a while
9.15pm, Kings Place Hall 1: Late-night Tapes
A performance of two 20th-century electronic icons: Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge, arguably the first real masterpiece of electronic music, and Varèse’s Poème électronique, scattered with sounds not usually considered ‘musical’ to create a sense of liberation between sounds. These classic tape pieces will be reimagined using Kings Place’s brand new cutting-edge spatialisation systems and followed by a new electro-acoustic work.
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
Edgard Varès - Poème électronique
Jonathan Berman - conductor
London Sinfonietta:
Karen Jones - flute
Peter Moore - trombone
Jonathan Morton - violin
Paul Silverthorne - viola
Sally Pendlebury - cello
Joe Richards - percussion
Clíodna Shanahan - piano
Jonathan Green - sound design
Please note: the pre-concert and post-concert events are free to ticket holders of the Turning Points: Sound Unwrapped concert.
Produced by the London Sinfonietta
The work of the London Sinfonietta is supported by Arts Council England and the John Ellerman Foundation, and with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
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