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Chihiro Ono visited the RNCM Centre for Practice and Research in Science and Music (PRiSM) earlier this week to meet the team and facilities she’ll be collaborating with as part of her upcoming commission, premiering at Associate Composer Simon Knighton’s curated Nonclassical event in September.
Breakfast, storytelling and a dinosaur playing the piano – we had a blast at IKLECTIK for Associate Composer Elischa Kaminer’s curated event: To paint over and to make sense.
Meet the artists involved in our upcoming two-day festival African Classical, in partnership with The African Concert Series.
Learn more about our upcoming event at IKLECTIK on Saturday 9 April, curated by Associate Composer Elischa Kaminer.
Meet the artists involved in our upcoming event at IKLECTIK on Saturday 9 April, curated by Associate Composer Elischa Kaminer.
On Sunday 20 February we took over the Barbican with live performances, DJ sets and more for our curated event listening to place. The day was centred around artists responses to location-based sound and field recordings.
As we prepare to take over the Barbican on Sunday 20 February, our marketing assistant Meg looks at the significance of listening to place in reconnecting with our surroundings.
After a year off thanks to you-know-what, it was great to kick off 2022 with our Battle of the Bands competition at MOTH Club.
Meet the artists performing at our upcoming event on Thursday 14 October, Blasio Kavuma: Jungle.
We kicked off our live programme with an event curated by Associate Composer Yfat Soul Zisso.
Music, sound art and public sculpture meld together with Dominic Murcott’s The Harmonic Canon, his British Composer Award winning composition featuring one half-tonne double bell, an array of unusual metal percussion and two virtuosic percussionists.
Our December Monthly Club Night will mark the launch of our Nonclassical Associate Composers, where four vibrant young classical composers will be offered mentoring, performance and commissioning opportunities.
Nonclassical are heading to northern Europe for two very special concerts in Latvia and Lithuania.
Friday 13th June// Baltais Fligelis, Riga, Latvia
Main concert:
Concerto Pour Vibraphone et Orchestre à Cordes (by Emmanuel Sejourné)
Spheres – G Prokofiev
Concerto for Bass Drum – G Prokofiev
Howl - G Prokofiev
Club:
DJs Gabriel Prokofiev, Nwando Ebizie
Cello Multitracks + remixes
Joby Burgess – percussion set featuring:
Temazcal, Javier Alvarez
Until My Blood Is Pure, Max de Wardener
Fanta®, Gabriel Prokofiev
Electric Counterpoint, Steve Reich
The Boom and The Bap, Matthew Fairclough
Saturday 14th June// Lithuania
DJs Gabriel Prokofiev, Nwando Ebizie
Cello Multitracks + remixes
Joby Burgess – percussion set featuring:
Temazcal, Javier Alvarez
Until My Blood Is Pure, Max de Wardener
Fanta®, Gabriel Prokofiev
Electric Counterpoint, Steve Reich
The Boom and The Bap, Matthew Fairclough
Cornelius Cardew, Treatise
In the 1950s and 60s, composers such as Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew experimented with new forms of notation, giving birth to the concept of the graphic score. Using visual symbols to represent sounds in an immediate and expressive way, they created striking visual compositions of breathtaking aesthetic power. These works that ranged from simple elegance to baffling complexity blurred the lines between art and music, and radically opened up performance opportunities to non-formally trained musicians.
For our next night, The Hermes Experiment will perform a free improvisation set inspired by John Cage’s iconic graphic score Variations IV. Ahead of this, make your own graphic score for The Hermes Experiment. Our Battle of the Bands co-winner, Hermes is a new quartet with big ideas and a big sound, plus a unique set of instruments (soprano, clarinet, double bass, and harp). Unapologetically adventurous and fearless, these new kids on the block are shaking up the contemporary classical world through their lively performances and diehard commitment to new music.
For tickets and more info about the 5 June concert, click here
To start your graphic score, it’s simple - just imagine the musical sounds you’d like and start drawing them using any type of visual representation. Squiggles, lines, shapes, words are all welcome - the possibilities are endless.
Once completed, just take a picture of it and share with us over Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram using #graphit. Winning selections will be played on video by Hermes on Nonclassical's Instagram profile - so get your creative juices flowing, paper and pencil ready, and draw out some new sounds...
UPDATE! The Hermes Experiment have now filmed three of the submitted graphic scores (instagram.com/nonclsscl), but you can still submit yours on Twitter or Instragram to be in with a chance of them performing it live on June 5th.
"SPILLIGAN" by Christie O'Regan
On Saturday 17th May Nonclassical presents an exciting night of contemporary classical music in Vienna as part of Classical Next. There will be a live performance of the critically acclaimed work ‘Cello Multitracks’ a suite of contrasting movements for nine layered cello parts composed by Gabriel Prokofiev, performed by Lithuanian cellist Gleb Pyšniak. Renowned German composer Moritz Eggert will play outtakes from his piano oeuvre, in which eccentricity meets "Gemuetlichkeit" and ironic sincerity. There will also be new music from the talented students of the Austrian University for Music and Performing Arts. In true Nonclassical style DJ Nwando Ebizie will be spinning the most stimulating new sounds in experimental, electronica, and contemporary classical music with remixes from the Nonclassical label.
Line-up: Gabriel Prokofiev (UK), Composer & DJ // Moritz Eggert (D), Piano // Gleb Pyšniak (LT/AT), Cello // Students of the MDW University for Music & Performing Arts Vienna + DJ sets by Gabriel Prokofiev and resident DJ Nwando Ebizie (UK)
Saturday 17th May 2014, 8.30pm @ Porgy & Bess
£5 adv / £6 Door (wegottickets)
8.00pm, The Shacklewell Arms
This month Nonclassical travels to the extreme boundaries of ensemble and solo playing, presenting emerging young artists who have exploded onto the contemporary classical scene. We welcome the bold voices of our 2014 Battle of the Bands co-winners The Hermes Experiment, along with adventurous clarinetist Max Welford.
The Hermes Experiment, a newly formed quartet with unique instrumentation (soprano, clarinet, double bass, harp), is on an ambitious mission to shake-up the contemporary classical world, regularly commissioning new works, playing creative rearrangements, and diving into free improvisation. They will give the world premiere of Black Sea by Ed Scolding, an emerging London composer who won Nonclassical’s composition competition last year. The ensemble will also perform selections from the iconic graphic score Variations IV by John Cage, Scenes from the Garden of Love by Jonathan Woolgar (2010 BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition Winner), and new arrangements of Bernstein and Gershwin. We are also running our own experiment called Graphit! you can submit your own graphic score for The Hermes Experiment to perform on video, and one will be performed live on June 5th - click here for more information.
Also appearing on the night is emerging clarinetist Max Welford (2014 Park Lane Group Young Artist), who is making major waves in the classical music world. His thoughtful virtuosity and artistry has been praised as “oozing class” (The Guardian) and exuding “rhythmic bite” (The Times). Welford brings his electric energy, gutsy interpretations, and nuanced colours to challenging works for solo clarinet by Bach, Berio, Stravinsky, Jorg Widmann and Tiberiu Olah.
As always Nonclassical resident DJs will be mixing the best in contemporary classical, experimental electronica, and more.
To submit your own graphic score and get it performed by Hermes click here
Join Nonclassical artist Klavikon and DJ Nwando for an evening of beats and blips as they explore groundbreaking electronic repertoire by rule-breakers and mavericks from the 60s to the present day at the Science Museum Lates. A meeting of underground East London club culture, contemporary classical and electronics. You’ll also get a last chance to see the spectacular exhibition, Collider.
Wednesday 30th April 2014 18.45–22.00, Free Entry Science Museum. Exhibition Road, South Kensington London, SW7 2DD
For more info on the Science Museum Lates click here.
When traditional record company models no longer work, what next?
It's a question Nonclassical founder Gabriel Prokofiev has been addressing for the past ten years, and on 16th May will be discussing on a panel at Classical Next in Vienna.
Moderated by Gramophone magazine’s James Jolly, Gabriel and fellow innovative music entrepreneurs John Anderson of Odradek Records and Marc Tritschler of the record co-operative Testklang, will discuss topics including peer review-led A&R decision-making, co-operative funding, the recording environment and philosophy, and working with partners to get the message across.
Info:
Friday, 16 May 2014 | 15:00 - 15:45 | Lecture Hall
http://www.classicalnext.com/program/conference/conference_schedule/session_20
We're very excited to be taking part in this years York Spring Festival of New Music, a genre defying weekend (9-11th May) of musical discovery and creativity across the whole City of York.
On Sunday 11th May Nonclassical DJ Nwando Ebizie will be spinning the most stimulating new sounds in experimental, electronica, and contemporary classical music with remixes from the Nonclassical label. There will also be a live performance of the critically acclaimed work ‘Cello Multitracks’ a suite of contrasting movements for nine layered cello parts composed by Gabriel Prokofiev, by a cellist and composer described as "working at the forefront of the new music scene" (The New Yorker), Peter Gregson.
Links
Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=UNIOFYORK&organ_val=org_id&pid=7698589
May-Day
7.30pm, Gillett Square
LouisAndriessen- Workers Union
8pm, The Shacklewell Arms
FredericRzewski - Coming Together & Attica LuigiNono - Non Consumiamo Marx CorneliusCardew - Treatise (re-interpreted by Neil Luck) MAAPCollective - Music from White Haired Boy (new opera on Boris Johnson) AudreyChen - Free improvisation with cello & voice
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On May Day, Nonclassical uncovers the political voice of classical music and raises it to dangerous decibels. It’s a march on Dalston championing both iconic and new works charged with sociopolitical consciousness - get ready to take contemporary classical to the streets and lift a sonically defiant finger to the establishment.
The night opens with a free, symbolic outdoor performance in Gillett Square of Louis Andriessen’s punchy Workers Union performed by The Riot Ensemble, a collective of top emerging musicians. The march on Dalston then continues at The Shacklewell Arms, exploring iconic works of powerful revolutionary fervor, featuring Luigi Nono’s electroacoustic Non Consumiamo Marx on the 1968 student protests and culminating with Frederic Rzewski’s poignant masterpieces Coming Together and Attica, written in response to the tragic Attica prison riots.
Paired with these established works will be fresh new music that address politics today: composer/performer Neil Luck creatively reinterprets Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise with a modern day twist, The Broom Brigade performs White Haired Boy a new irreverent satirical opera on Boris Johnson by the MAAP Collective, and renowned experimental musician Audrey Chen expressively improvises with voice and cello on the May Day theme.
Between live performances, Nonclassical DJs will be spinning unique politically-themed sets, featuring music from Hans Eisler to Dead Prez.
Artist PagesThe Riot Ensemble // Neil Luck // Audrey Chen // Maja Rivić
