nonclassical

IMPORT/EXPORT ALBUM
LAUNCH PARTY

POWERPLANT///

Joby Burgess
(percussion/electronics)
Kathy Hinde
(visuals)

Swedish Composers Exchange///

The Horse & Groom
28 Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3NZ

THIS MONTH Nonclassical launches the much anticipated new release from Powerplant – the multimedia group led by young genre-trashing percussionist, Joby Burgess with visuals from Kathy Hinde performing  selections from their groundbreaking commission ‘Import/Export: suite for global junk’ by Gabriel Prokofiev.   In addition we have new works from the experimental music camp New Music Incubator.

POWERPLANT / G.PROKOFIEV:IMPORT / EXPORT: SUITE FOR GLOBAL JUNK.

From solo Fanta bottle to voyages through common junk objects (a wooden pallet, plastic bags, an oil drum and soda bottles), G Prokofiev’s Import/Export is a piece that brings light to today’s environmental issues without preaching. Joby Burgess and Gabriel Prokofiev began exchanging ideas for collaboration since 2006, through the process of composing, workshopping and finding a way to write for the loop-driven system that Joby set up giving brith to Import/Export.

Despite ‘Import/Export’ taking inspiration from Electroacoustic, Musique concrete, Sonic Art pioneers and beyond from Schaeffer, Stockhasen, Cage and Varese to Babaton bendi and Zawose, Burgess performs found sounds LIVE. Doing so firmly buckles erstwhile reliance on backing tracks, DAT machines and/or laptops to perform Found/Alternative sounds as ‘live music’, thereby successfully acheiving performances that are musically dynamic and truly expressive. Import/Export proves too that traditional compositional form and development can prevail using found sounds without resorting to a cut-and-paste loop-fest generated in a studio by countless mouse clicks & edits.

Swedish Exchange: artists from New Music Incubator

Endorsing the dissolving distinctions between genres of ‘high and low’ art, with two successful projects in Sweden so far, New Music Incubator provides an international creative exchange lab for performers, composers, improvisers and sound artists to explore each other’s practice and continue to develop their own through workshop environments that encourage risk-taking and opportunity to experiment with new processes and techniques. Nonclassical tonight, presents Swedish performers and composers fresh from the NMI’s most recent gathering European gathering.

More info: http://www.natverkslager.se/

Live performances from 9pm and DJ sets from resident DJs Gabriel Prokofiev and Richard Lannoy throughout the night mixing contemporary classical, genre-busting remixes from the Nonclassical label and beyond.