16TH JUNE: CONSORTIUM5 @ THE WILDING FESTIVAL

CONSORTIUM5

@ WILDING FESTIVAL /

16TH JUNE / 2PM / ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY /

Nonclassical album artists Consortium5 perform at a festival to celebrate the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Premiering 3 new commissions by Roxanna Panufnik, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Litha and Effy Efthymiou supported by the PRSF Women Make Music scheme and the RVW Trust.

Exploring both the life and death of this passionate suffragette, C5 will contrast new works from female composers of the present day with that of female composers in the Renaissance period including works by Raphaela Aleotta, a nun from the San Vito convent in Italy, Maddalena Casulana, an Italian lutenist and one of the the first female composer to have music printed and last but not least the infamous Anne Boleyn.

Tickets: £10 Here

http://www.thewildingfestival.co.uk

CELLO MULTITRACKS @ CLASSICAL NEXT

We're attending this year's Classical Next festival, held in Vienna from 29th May to 1st June. And we're happy to announce that for the closing event at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts we'll have DJ sets from Gabriel Prokofiev and Nwando Ebizie, plus a performance by Tom Bayman of Gabriel Prokofiev's 'Cello Multitracks'. Excited for our first label appearance in Austria! >>> Classical Next festival

>>> Gabriel Prokofiev 'Jerk Driver' video

With kind support from the PRS Foundation: http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk

18.05.13: Nonclassical @ Northern Chords

We're looking forward to making our North East debut next month, as we host a late night event at the Sage Gateshead as part of the Northern Chords festival. The live programme spans a broad range of contemporary music, while our DJ sets will as usual be threading electronics beats and textures into these avant garde sound worlds. And to top it all off, entry is free!

Full programme:

Steve Reich: Cello Counterpoint Magnus Lindberg: Piano Trio (3rd movement) George Crumb: Movement from Solo Cello Sonata Gabriel Prokofiev: Cello Multitracks Arvo Part: Fratres for String Quartet Bela Bartok: Fuga from Sonata for Solo Violin

10:30 PM | Sage Gateshead Concourse

thesagegateshead.org northernchords.com thelateshows.org.uk

Here's a special Podcast featuring music from the night and Beyond.

1.05.13: WAGNER'S BICENTENARY @ THE MACBETH

Pleased to announce that our monthly residency at The Macbeth is again in collaboration with the brilliant Lore Lixenberg, who's bringing along a selection of special guests to mark 200 years of everyone's favourite megalomaniac composer / professional lunatic, Richard Wagner. We'll be revisiting some of Richard's best known masterpieces such as Tristan and Isolde and the epic Ring cycle, as well as lesser known gems and modern mashups.

*** NEW ADDITIONS ***

- Acclaimed soprano Alison Pearce will be singing 'Dich teure Halle' from Wagner's opera Tannhauser.

- Gijs Kramers and soloists from the Philharmonia orchestra present new arrangements of Wagner material. The performers are:

Vicky Wright, clarinet Jan Regulski, Mark Derudder, Adrián Varela, violin Sam Burstin, Gijs Kramers, viola Eric Villeminey, Maria Zachariadou, cello

Join us as we celebrate Wagner's epic and ground-breaking oeuvre in irreverent fashion. With resident DJs Gabriel Prokofiev & Nwando, and guest DJ Joel Cahen (New Toy).

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Sat. 13th April: Nonclassical @ Barbican (LSO Futures)

We're delighted to be collaborating with LSO Aftershock once again in April,  as we host a free post-concert event featuring new music by composers and composer/performers from the LSO's Soundhub scheme: Jason Yarde / Andrew McCormack / Edmund Finnis / Raymond Yiu / Tom Coult / Philip Venables / Elspeth Brooke / Darren Bloom / Matthew Kaner / Cevanne Horrock-Hopayian

LSO Soundhub composer/performers: Jason Yarde (saxophone) / Andrew McCormack (piano) / Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian (vocals)

LSO performers: Lorenzo Iosco (bass clarinet), Jessica Lee (bass clarinet), Tom Norris (violin), Laurent Quenelle (violin), David Worswick (violin), Malcolm Johnston (viola), Paul Silverthorne (viola), Jani Pensola (double bass)

Plus DJ sets from Richard Lannoy spanning all manner of contemporary acoustic and electronic sounds.

The event is part of LSO Futures, a brilliant series of events profiling young composers with orchestral and chamber concerts, workshops, and more, running from 9th - 13th April.

SATURDAY 13th APRIL, 8.45pm BARBICAN LEVEL -1 FOYER FREE ENTRY

23.03.13 Cello Multitracks Live in Edinburgh

Gabriel Prokofiev & Peter Gregson

The Queens Hall, 85 Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG

>>> Full details and tickets

This Saturday Gabriel Prokofiev's 'Cello Multtiracks' gets its first Scottish performance at Edinburgh's stunning Queens Hall.Following recent performances in Berlin and at France's Nemo festival, Peter Gregson will again perform the suite's solo cello line along with eight pre-recorded tracks.

We released Cello Multitracks as an album last year to critical acclaim from The Times, The Independent, and Gramophone among other sources. More recently we followed this up with a remix contest for 'Float Dance', the results of which you can stream here.

For the night at The Queens Hall Gabriel & Peter will perform a newly developed version of the piece incorporating elements from the remixes included on the album, by the likes of DJ Spooky, Tim Exile, and others.

About the Music

‘Cello Multitracks’ continues Prokofiev’s interest in reconnecting concert music with a sense of what is contemporary and tangible: “Classical music has a long history of using dance forms that are popular at the time, a very exciting approach that has been largely neglected recently.”As the performer, Gregson comments that Prokofiev’s vocabulary of sounds is “pulled from a wider net than anything else I've worked on before. It wasn't just about learning the notes and rhythms (although this was a big thing, too!) - the most important thing was to be able to recreate sounds from electronica and dance music acoustically.” In this context, Peter Gregson’s own contribution was invaluable: “the fact that Peter makes his own electronic music and has a lot of studio experience, meant that he 'got' the music straight away and we were on the same wavelength immediately.”

03.04.13 Nonclassical @ The Macbeth ft. Thomas Gould + Music off Canvas

For April's Nonclassical we're back at Hoxton's favourite 'haggard old party pub' for a night in association with our good friends Platform33. Following the sonic mayhem of our recent Pioneers of Electronic Music series, it'll be nice to return to more acoustic territory with a headline performance from the celebrated violinist Thomas Gould, described by The Sunday Times as a 'soloist of rare refinement'. A very rare chance to see this acclaimed performer in such intimate surroundings, and he's put together the following killer programme:

Ewan Campbell - Everything, all at once (premiere)

Benjamin Ellin - Three States

Graham Williams - Mr. Punch (premiere)

John Hawkins - BoBop

Aziza Sadikova - La Baroque Nico Muhly - A Long Line Mark Bowden - Lines written a few miles below

Also performing on 3rd April is Music Off Canvas, a new group led by Hannah Grayson (flute) and Vanessa Howells (oboe) that collaborates with diverse arts specialists and includes LIVE PAINTING. They've already been sought out by venues such as the Southbank Centre and the Saatchi Gallery and this will be seriously good. More details coming soon!

Wednesday 3rd April, 8pm The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street N1 6LP (directions) £5 advance / £6 on the door

THE SAME TRADE AS MOZART: Documentary Evening

Sunday 17th March, 7:30 PM

Hackney Attic (at Hackney Picturehouse), 270 Mare Street E8 1HE

£7, concessions available

For the final event in our Pioneers of Electronic Music series, we present three  documentaries exploring very different aspects of early British electronic music, accompanied by two presentations and a rare performance:

Practical Electronica (Ian Helliwell, 2011) A boldly experimental film surveying the innovative tape-based work of British pioneer FC Judd. >>>Trailer

The Same Trade as Mozart (BBC, 1969) An earlier look at electronic music with contributions from Stockhausen, Daphne Oram, Tristram Cary and others.

The Delian Mode (Kara Blake, 2009) Award winning short documentary on the iconic British sound pioneer Delia Derbyshire. >>> Trailer

Plus:

- Simon Emmerson: ‘Changing scenes’ The celebrated electroacoustic composer and writer looks back at how electronic music in the UK has developed in the last 50 years or so. How so many ‘scenes’ – such as experimental, electroacoustic, electronica, soundscape, improvisation, radiophonic, installation – have emerged, evolved and interacted.

- Ian Helliwell: Tristram Cary’s Trios. A rare performance of Cary's music from the director of Practical Electronica (with reel-to-reel tape, slide projections, and CD players).

Aisha Orazbayeva & Peter Zinovieff: Perfomance and Q+A

>>> £5 Advance tickets (Wegottickets) >>> Find this event on Facebook

Saturday 9th March, 7pm | St. Margaret's House Settlement, 21 Old Ford Road E2 9PL

Part of our Pioneers of Electronic Music festival.

We're delighted to announce a special joint performance by pioneering innovator of electronic music Peter Zinovieff and acclaimed violinist Aisha Orazbayeva. The pair will be performing their collaborative work OUR, for violin and computer, which appears on Aisha's album Outside.

Zinovieff, who co-founded the Electronic Music Studios in 1969 and developed the iconic VCS3 synthesiser, will also be giving a Q+A, discussing his involvement in the field and giving his thoughts on wider issues in electronic music.

To be accompanied by a screening of the documentary What the Future Sounded Like (2008), an award winning short documentary focusing on the work of Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and others affiliated with EMS during the 1970s.

Electronic Music On Screen: Double Bill at The Rio

In the 1950s electronic music entered dramatically into the public consciousness for the first time, largely thanks to its growing use in film and television. Among the seminal moments were these two classics of Hollywood science fiction, which will be screened back to back with introductory talks from Dr Miguel Mera, a renowned film music expert at City University.

>>> £9.50 Advance tickets - concessions available

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Sunday 10th March, 1pm | The Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, E8 2PB

Part of our Pioneers of Electronic Music festival.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Landmark sci-fi and a classic Cold War allegory in which a Christ-like alien Klaatu ('Mr. Carpenter' is the name he adopts) comes to Earth preaching a message of salvation for mankind: stop fighting or be destroyed. The appearance of now legendary giant robot Gort and the much used phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" have ensured the film's continued cult status, but it also features one of composer Bernard Herrmann's most admired scores, featuring the theremin and other electronic instruments, all of which must certainly have seemed out of this world in 1951.

Forbidden Planet (1955)

The planet Altair-4, the setting for this first out of this world adaptation of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', is indeed an isle full of strange noises. It is home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby but also to a mysterious terror. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to discover what exactly is going on there. A landmark all-electronic musical soundscape score devised by Louis and Bebe Barron is as memorable as the set design and pioneering special effects.

6th March | Nonclassical @ The Macbeth: Perspectives on Daphne Oram

Audiovisual instruments inspired by the life and work of Daphne Oram. Daphne Oram created the Oramics machine in order to make her own unique experimental art – a sound unlike anyone else.

We're exploring some of Daphne's ideas specifically during the concert - most notably, Tom Richards is performing using a new device he has been developing based on Daphne's mini-oramics system, which is being built using components that would have been available to her at the time.

Chris Weaver will also be exploring photophonic systems (the use of photocells in sound). Bruno Zamborlin is presenting gesture-based systems derived from analogue signals. Ryo Ikeshiro, Chris Kiefer and Mick Grierson are presenting audiovisual synthesis systems.

The night is part of Nonclassical’s monthly series, also featuring resident DJs Gabriel Prokofiev, Richard Lannoy, and Nwando. This event is in association with Goldsmiths EAVI Research Group.

>>> £5 Advance tickets (Wegottickets)

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Part of our Pioneers of Electronic Music festival.

PIONEERS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC at XOYO

£6 Early Bird

>>> £8 Limited Advance (Wegottickets)

Part of our Pioneers of Electronic Music festival.

Nonclassical / Gabriel Prokofiev in Canada

We're excited to announce three upcoming dates in Canada later this month, where Gabriel Prokofiev will be DJing and presenting some of his compositions. It's our first time in Canada for a while, hope to see some of you there!

Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd February GABRIEL PROKOFIEV w/ ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE Enwave Theatre, Toronto

Featuring Gabriel Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 1 and 'Outta Pulsor' from his Cello Multitracks album, and music by Gavin Bryars and Jonathan Goldsmith. Art of Time is a critically acclaimed Toronto-based ensemble founded by Andrew Burashko.

>>> More information

Sunday 24th February NONCLASSICAL IN QUEBEC l'Agitée, 251, rue Dorchester, Québec

In collaboration with Quebec based artist Daniel Deslauriers, our first Nonclassical night in Quebec.

Featuring live 'conducted improvisation' sets from Fred Lebrasseur and guests from the Quebec Symphony Orchestra: Fred Lebrasseur = chef d'orchestre en improvisation Etienne Lepine-Lafrance = contre-basse Pierre Langevin = clarinette basse Stéphane Fontaine = clarinette Inti Manzi = violon Yana Ouellet = basson Raphael Guay = percussions Alexis Basque = trompette Sarah Bérubé Lalancette = trombone Isabelle Fortier = harpe Marianne Trudel = accordéon

Plus Étienne Nadeau Plamondon (new work for piano and electronics), and a special live remix project from Devil Dandy. With DJ sets from Gabriel Prokofiev between live acts.

>>> More information

Pioneers of Electronic Music

Time Out 'Critic's Choice' / interview

Wednesday 6th March, 8pm: Nonclassical - monthly club-night The Macbeth, Hoxton Street N1 6LP Audiovisual instruments inspired by the life and work of Daphne Oram. Daphne Oram created the Oramics machine in order to make her own unique experimental art - a sound unlike anyone else. Each act in this programme presents a new tool for audiovisual performance and interaction, designed to create new sounds and images to reflect their specific character and approach. The night is part of Nonclassical's monthly series, also featuring resident DJs Richard Lannoy and Nwando. This event is in association with Goldsmiths EAVI Research Group.

Tickets: £5 in advance / £6 on the door >>> More details / Book from Wegottickets

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Saturday 9th March, 1pm: Dirty Electronics Synth Lab St. Margaret's House Settlement, 21 Old Ford Road E2 9PL

Professor and regular Wire contributor John Richards leads a 'synth lab' in which participants learn to build their own synthesiser. This approach to building a synth makes for a truly hands-on, practical experience, allowing anybody to take part.  All participants will be invited to perform at the XOYO Club Night.

* MORE PLACES ADDED* - email nwando@nonclassical.co.uk for more information

7pm: Peter Zinovieff and Aisha Orazbayeva Following the workshop, a performance and Q+A with legendary electronic innovator Peter Zinovieff and violinist Aisha Orazbayeva. The pair will be performing some of their recent collaborative work including extracts from OUR, a concerto for violin and computer.

Also featuring a screening of the documentary What The Future Sounded Like, with contributions from Zinovieff among others.

Tickets: £5 advance >>> More details / Book from Wegottickets

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Sunday 10th March, 1pm: Cinema Double Bill: The Day The Earth Stood Still / Forbidden Planet Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, E8 2PB

We present a double bill at Dalston's Rio Cinema, celebrating two 1950s classics whose use of forward thinking electronic music opened up new worlds of sound: The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), scored by Bernard Herrmann, and Forbidden Planet (1956), scored by Louis and Bebe Barron.

These films will be preceded by introductory talks from Dr. Miguel Mera, a renowned film music expert at City University.

Tickets: £9.50 (concessions available; includes admission to both screenings) >>> More details / Book tickets from the Rio website / tel. 020 7241 9410

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Tuesday 12th March, 7:30 pm: 'Deconstructing Dad' Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street  E8 1HE

We're honoured to present the first London screening of Stan Warnow's critically acclaimed documentary Deconstructing Dad, on the life and times of the great American composer and innovator Raymond Scott.

Tickets: £5 / 7 >>> Book tickets from the Hackney Picturehouse website / tel: 0871 902 5734

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Thursday 14th March, 8pm: Pioneers of Electronic Music XOYO, Cowper Street EC2A 4AP

At the centre of the festival, we return to XOYO following two hugely popular nights in 2012. A programme celebrating the often unrecognised connections that bridge the pioneers of the 1950s to today's most forward thinking producers:

Raymond Scott's legendary Manhattan Research Project. Scored and arranged by Leon Michener for an ensemble of rare vintage synthesisers. Performed by Michener and guests.

Messiaen | Oraison (1937). Performed on ondes Martenot and 5 mono synths. Performed by Augustin Viard, Matthew Schellhorn, and guests. Stockhausen | Kontakte (1958, version for percussion, piano & electronics). Performed by George Barton and Siwan Mair Rhys Varese | Poeme Electronique (1958) With original film by Le Corbusier.

Dirty Electronics: A 30-piece all electronic ensemble led by John Richards, performing works inspired by Andrew Bentley, Hugh Davis and Richard Orton.

Plus new arrangements and versions of music by Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, and Tristram Cary.

*** Headline DJ set: ALEX PATERSON (THE ORB) *** A very special set traversing the history of cutting edge electronic sound, from one of modern dance music's pioneers.

Tickets: £6 Limited Early Bird / £8 advance >>> More details / Book from Wegottickets

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Sunday 17th March, 7:30 pm: The Same Trade As Mozart - Documentary Evening Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street  E8 1HE

A selection of films exploring the lives and works of some of the great figures of electronic music, plus performances and presentations.

Films to include:

Practical Electronica (Ian Helliwell, 2011), a boldly experimental film surveying the innovative tape-based work of British pioneer FC Judd. The Same Trade as Mozart (BBC, 1969), an earlier look at electronic music with contributions from Stockhausen, Daphne Oram, Tristram Cary and others. The Delian Mode (Kara Blake, 2009), award winning short documentary on the iconic British sound pioneer Delia Derbyshire.

Plus:

- A presentation from celebrated electroacoustic composer and writer Simon Emmerson, whose career spans five decades at the forefront of new electronic music.

- A rare performance of Tristram Cary's Trios by Ian Helliwell (with reel-to-reel tape, slide projections, and CD players).

Tickets £5 / 7 >>> Book from the Hackney Picturehouse website / tel. 0871 902 5734