Due to a large cloud of volcanic ash, the Sun
Ra Arkestra have been grounded in London. As a result they've
decided to add an extra night of their residency at Cafe Oto, tix
are £10, but get them asap as the previous 3 nights sold out fast.
Doors at 8pm
Update: Advance tickets are now sold out, but there will be
some available on the door tonight.
Our Chinese correspondent Steve Barker writes
with news of an amazing sounding gig way out East. If you can't get
there, hey, just check out the amazing flyer:
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Exclusive footage of Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde's collaborative
work, Birds And Traces . The composition was created during
a week long residency at Aldeburgh Music as part of
Faster Than Sound , a
series of residencies set up to promote crossover between classical
composers and artists working with electronic media. Inspired by
the themes of bird migration, the season of Spring and climate
change, Birds And Traces involved school children
local to the Snape area reinterpreting Norwegian songs about birds
and Spring along with making origami birds and mapping out
migration routes.
Alongside the resulting composition, the artists created two
installations which included research materials produced during
their residency and a multimedia film sculpture. The performance
featured Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli. Parallel Voices was
curated by The Wire .
Also performing at Parallel Lives was Marina Rosenfeld,
watch exclusive footage of her installation and performance
here.
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Footage of Marina Rosenfeld's composition Cannons ,
created specifically for the space at Aldeburgh Music's Hoffman
Building at Snape, Suffolk during a one week residency leading up
to the performance on 20 March 2010. Cannons features
a custom built sound system comprised of four large resonating
'bass cannons' made out of steel pipes fitted with subwoofers,
along with two steel horns, all created in collaboration with the
sound engineer Paul Geluso and the Suffolk metalwork firm JT Pegg
& Sons in Aldeburgh.
The work was made with Paul Geluso and players from the London
Contemporary Orchestra: Robert Ames (viola), Lucy Railton (cello)
and Sarah Cresswell (percussion) and was curated by The
Wire .