http://www.fasterthansound.com/ en Copyright 2010 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:30:51 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Title: Faster Than Sound Latitude Showcase Programme: Simon Fisher Turner mayday and cold cold cold (new commission) Larry Goves + Mira Calix Pedotin (new commission), John Woolrich Ulysses Awakes, Claude Vivier Zipangu, John Adams Shaker Loops, Emily Hall new songs Quayola + Mira Calix with Oliver Coates Natures Performers: London Contemporary Orchestra, Hugh Brunt (conductor), Mara Carlyle (singer), Simon Fisher Turner (electronics), Mira Calix (electronics), Quayola (multimedia), Oliver Coates (cello), John Reid (Piano) Date: Friday 16 July, 3.30 till 6.30pm Film and Music Stage Venue: Henham Park, Southwold, Sunrise Coast Tickets: SOLD OUT Box Office: www.latitudefestival.co.uk http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/fts_at_latitude_festival_1.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/fts_at_latitude_festival_1.html upcoming events Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:30:51 +0000 Tickets To buy tickets for Faster than Sound events, please call the Aldeburgh Music Box Office on +44 (0)1728 687110 or email boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/fts_at_latitude_festival.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/fts_at_latitude_festival.html diary Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:26:51 +0000 This Friday FTS will take over the Film and Music Stage between 3.30 and 6.30pm for a unique showcase. For this year's Latitude, we have put together a special showcase which presents FTS pioneering work on the festival stage, featuring some of the most exciting talent in contemporary classical and electronic music. Expect classic contemporary pieces and exclusive world premiers. The London Contemporary Orchestra draws together London's brightest young talent to explore and promote contemporary music to an increasingly wide audience, making them the perfect choice for this special festival programme. At Latitude they will join forces with acclaimed composer Simon Fisher Turner, renowned for his work with Derek Jarman, to perform a 20 minute set created for strings and electronics. Simon Fisher Turner’s piece sits within a special score-based set which will form the centerpiece of the showcase, including works by John Woolrich (Associate Director, Aldeburgh Festival), Claude Vivier and John Adams, performed by the LCO conducted by Hugh Brunt. The ensemble will also premiere two new Faster Than Sound co-commissioned works by composers Mira Calix and Larry Goves as part of their “exchange and return” project, which develops electronic artists’ skills in orchestration in collaboration with composers. A set of lyrical love songs by Emily Hall and long-time collaborator and writer Toby Litt, recently premiered in May, provides the final set, performed by the LCO featuring acclaimed singer-songwriter Mara Carlyle with John Reid and Oliver Coates. Also being screened is 2008 FTS comissioned collaboration between visual artist Quayola and Mira Calix with Oliver Coates. http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/latitude_festival_is_coming.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/latitude_festival_is_coming.html news Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:09:54 +0000 The London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) make their Faster Than Sound debut in a programme of new music from some of the UK’s most engaging young voices, plus Faster Than Sound showcase is confirmed for Latitude festival. The LCO draws together London's brightest young talent to explore and promote contemporary music to an increasingly wide audience. A set of lyrical love songs by Emily Hall and long-time collaborator and writer Toby Litt forms the centrepiece of the programme performed by the LCO featuring acclaimed singer-songwriter Mara Carlyle and other special guests. The evening also showcases new works by Jonathan Cole and Tristan Brookes, plus a performance of Jonny Greenwood’s beautifully creepy smear, scored for ensemble and two ondes martenot featuring Cynthia Millar. An immersive audio visual installation inspired by Aldeburgh will be presented in the Jerwood Kiln throughout the evening produced by Birmingham based Juneau Projects. LCO’s aim is to stimulate and enlighten through its fresh approach and dynamic performances, championing the work of young, UK-based composers. Formed in 2008, the ensemble has worked alongside distinguished artists such as Matmos, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Biosphere, Sound Intermedia, choreographer Darren Johnston, Mark-Anthony Turnage and United Visual Artists, and commissioned music from emerging composers, Emily Hall, Shiva Feshareki and Anna Meredith. Recent highlights include sellout performances at the Roundhouse and Village Underground. Award winning composer Emily Hall and writer Toby Litt began working together in 2007. Together they create lyrical and direct songs inspired by the tradition of the art song performed by non-classically trained voices. For Faster Than Sound, they will create a new set of songs in collaboration with acclaimed singer-songwriter Mara Carlyle, pianist John Reid, and cellist Oliver Coates with supporting electronics from David Sheppard from Sound Intermedia. burburbabbar za by Jonathan Cole will be reworked especially for the space of the Britten Studio, with the musicians surrounding the audience, and environmental sounds incorporated into the musical fabric of the work. Tristan Brooke’s piece, Ur, features an ensemble of nine players and live-relayed sounds. To complement the performances in the Britten Studio, Juneau Projects will construct a bold and immersive music and video installation in the Jerwood Kiln Studio, incorporating custom-made sculptural instruments and sound reactive visuals inspired by the Aldeburgh area. http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/london_contemporary_orchestra_at_faster_than_sound_1.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/london_contemporary_orchestra_at_faster_than_sound_1.html news Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:22:13 +0000 Title: London Contemporary Orchestra Artists: London Contemporary Orchestra, Mara Carlyle, Jonathan Cole, Cynthia Millar Date: Saturday 15 May, 8pm, pre-event talk 4pm Venue: Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, IP17 1SP Tickets: £10 (concert, 7pm), Free but booking required (pre-event talk) Box Office: 01728 687110 and www.aldeburgh.co.uk Web: www.aldeburgh.co.uk and www.fasterthansound.com http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/london_contemporary_orchestra_at_faster_than_sound.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/london_contemporary_orchestra_at_faster_than_sound.html upcoming events Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:07:37 +0000 Aldeburgh Music’s Faster Than Sound featuring Mira Calix, Larry Goves, Simon Fisher Turner and the London Contemporary Orchestra. Faster Than Sound continues a long tradition at Aldeburgh of giving artists the space and opportunity to experiment and work in new ways. It explores possibilities for forging innovative collaborations between the worlds of classical and electronic music, players and composers and new technologies. For Latitude Faster Than Sound have put together a unique showcase with some of the most exciting talent in contemporary classical and electronic music. London Contemporary Orchestra will collaborate with Simon Fisher Turner, a self-confessed ‘extreme sound freak’ and acclaimed composer. The set will also premiere two Faster Than Sound co-commissioned works written in collaboration by composers Mira Calix and Larry Goves as part of their “exchange and return” project performed by players from LCO. A unique score-based programme including John Woolrich, Claude Vivier and John Adams performed by the LCO conducted by Hugh Brunt will form the centerpiece of this performance. The groundbreaking 2008 commissioned AV piece “Natures” by Quayola and Mira Calix will be screened throughout the event. http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/faster_than_sound_at_latitude_festival.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/faster_than_sound_at_latitude_festival.html news Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:57:12 +0000 Series: Faster Than Sound Title: Parallel Lives + Hush House Artists: Maja Ratkje, Kathy Hinde, Marina Rosenfeld (Parallel Lives) + Kathrine Sandys (Hush House) Date: Saturday 20 March, 7pm, pre-event talk 4pm (Parallel Lives), 12-5pm (Hush House) Venue: Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, IP17 1SP (Parallel Lives) RAF Bentwaters, Nr Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 2TW (Hush House) Tickets: £10 (Parallel Lives, 7pm), Free (Hush House + pre-event talk) Shuttle: £5 for a courtesy bus to Ipswich (leaving 9.45pm, for the last London service at 10.42pm). Must be booked in advance. Box Office: 01728 687110 and www.aldeburgh.co.uk http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/parallel_lives_1.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/parallel_lives_1.html upcoming events Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:59:33 +0000 Marina Rosenfeld’s Cannons continues her investigation of forms of public address, amplification, and the social architecture of performance. Deploying both live players and customized resonating objects, including bass cannons and horns, Rosenfeld’s new work will be developed in situ at Aldeburgh and will bring her composition and live turntablism into confrontation with classical players from the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde’s piece Birds and Traces draws on the long and borderless migration of birds as inspiration. Using themes of spring, birds and the effects of climate change, their residency will involve local children re-interpreting Norwegian songs and featuring in the piece on many levels. The resulting work will be presented as a concert performance including acclaimed Norwegian accordionist Frøde Haltli, three installation rooms as well as facts on bird migration.
Kathrine Sandys Hush House captures the ghostly and invisible past of the Cold War in the UK through a compelling site specific sound installation. The journey to and across the site sets the scene for audiences experiencing the work and, upon entering the Hush House, there will be no ‘object’ to experience. Instead what will fill the space is a set of low sound frequencies selected from those that would have been generated by the jets originally tested in the space, creating a ghostly trace of the presence of technology. On the way out, in the original Control Room, a series of images, text and drawings outline the work and the site will be presented along with the opportunity for informal discussion. What Kathrine hopes the audience takes with them is a combination of a limited introduction to the history of the site, their own concept of Cold War military sites and technology and a sense of experiencing something – an ambiguous something. ]]> http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/parallel_lives.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/parallel_lives.html news Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:48:05 +0000 Iain Sinclair / Alan Moore / Shirley Collins / Susan Stenger / F. M. Einheit / Graham Dolphin 30 January, 8pm, Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings, Tickets £10 Box Office 01728 687110 and www.aldeburgh.co.uk http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/an_english_journey_reimagined_1.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/upcoming_events/an_english_journey_reimagined_1.html upcoming events Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:31:17 +0000 An English Journey Re-Imagined. Iain Sinclair / Alan Moore / Shirley Collins / Susan Stenger / F. M. Einheit / Graham Dolphin Authors and psycho-geographers Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore re-imagine J.B. Priestley’s timeless classic An English Journey and undertake their own journeys across England in a first time collaboration. The project starts at Faster Than Sound in Aldeburgh with a collaboration between Sinclair, Moore and song collector Shirley Collins, composer/musician Susan Stenger and F. M. Einheit and visual artist Graham Dolphin, to communicate a special journey through the Suffolk countryside. An English Journey Re-Imagined brings together this esteemed collection of artists from across disciplines to collaborate on a highly distinctive project which will present a mapping of place in the here and now, electronic graffiti, folk music and unique writing styles intertwining with voices set in a haunted filmic soundscape. Faster Than Sound is the first chapter in this imaginative, yet to be written book, with other chapters taking place at Newcastle’s AV festival and beyond. http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/an_english_journey_reimagined.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/an_english_journey_reimagined.html news Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:22:34 +0000 Russell Haswell. Bernie Krause, Chris Watson, Russell Haswell, Tony Myatt. Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings, Saturday 7 November, 8pm - midnight Tickets: £10 Box OfficeL 01728 687110 and www.aldeburgh.co.uk For this pioneering Faster Than Sound project, leading UK multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell brings together two of the world’s most acclaimed wildlife sound recordist and electronic music pioneers, UK’s Chris Watson and America’s Bernie Krause. They will join Haswell and surround sound researcher Dr Tony Myatt in a week long residency that will include talks, local field recording and culminate in a four hour three dimensional audio performance. The performance will integrate rarely experienced soundscapes from across the globe and electronic sound, presented over a bespoke three-dimensional sound system as a promenade performance. We have all heard the work of Watson and Krause, either through the soundtracks of David Attenborough’s wildlife documentaries or in epic films like Apocalypse Now. These two extraordinary talents also have a shared history as pioneers of electronic music, but have never previously met. Krause is also known for bringing the Moog synthesiser to Europe (introducing it to The Beatles and Stones. Chris Watson, prior to his work on BBC’s natural history programmes such as Spring Watch, was a member of Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafer Trio integrating experimental recording techniques and sound manipulations. Both artists have been powerfully influential on the development of electronic music. For the Faster Than Sound residency Haswell has also invited Ambisonics and surround sound researcher Dr Tony Myatt, Director of the University of York Music Research Centre. Tony will work with the artists to experiment with the latest 360 degree soundfield recording technology, and will develop a new third order ambisonic sound system for the event, combining octagonal and cubic loudspeaker arrays, to provide a three-dimensional canvas for sound projection in the Aldeburgh Music’s Britten Studio. The audience will be able to experience a fully immersive acoustic habitat that combines some of the most incredible sounds from the natural world plus experimental and electronic recordings. The residency was conceived and curated by Russell Haswell, who has previously curated for PS1/MOMA in New York, All Tomorrows Parties and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Russell also releases computer generated sound recordings on such prestigious labels as Mego, WARP and Warner Classical. The event is produced by Aldeburgh Music with Joana Seguro. Faster Than Sound continues a long tradition at Aldeburgh of giving artists the space and opportunity to experiment and work in new ways. After three years staging Faster Than Sound at Bentwaters Airbase, as part of the Aldeburgh Festival, the possibilities for forging innovative collaborations between the worlds of classical and electronic music, players and composers and new technologies became apparent. What was needed however was more time to really make these partnerships flourish. Thanks to funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Faster Than Sound now takes the form of five week- long residencies a year which bring composers, players, technology and the natural environment together to create new work that is then premiered in Aldeburgh Music’s new workspace facilities at Snape, the recently converted industrial spaces known as the Hoffmann Building.]]> http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/listen_1.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/listen_1.html news Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:55:59 +0000 boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk]]> http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/diary_contacts/diary_contacts.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/diary_contacts/diary_contacts.html diary contacts Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:28:39 +0000 Aldeburgh Music website. www.aldeburgh.co.uk also features a ticket booking service, along with travel and accommodation information. ]]> http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/diary.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/diary/diary.html diary Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:16:37 +0000 www.aldeburgh.co.uk]]> http://www.fasterthansound.com/about/aldeburgh/aldeburgh_music.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/about/aldeburgh/aldeburgh_music.html aldeburgh Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:30:50 +0000 Scenographer and creator of the robots was born in Hannover, Germany. He has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1986. Formally trained as a concert violinist and naval constructor, he has worked extensively in theatre and opera, as well as for sound and movement installations. His work has a technical sophistication most uncommon in visual art and theatre. He was a Maat Collective Member together with Franc Aleu and Pere Tantiñá. His work focuses on the creation of impossible artefacts. He has collaborated in multiple scenography from the Barcelona Olympic games in 92, to collaborations with Bigas Luna, Jaume Plensa, Alfred Arribas, Enric Miralles and Xavier Mariscal, amongst others. He has designed many main pieces for La Fura dels Baus and Marcel·lí Antúnez. He developed and directed the chamber opera Orlando Furioso for 5 music robots and soprano with music by Michael Gross. He designed the thematic Pavillon OIKOS for EXPO 2008 in Zaragoza and is realising the 4 operas by Richard Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelung, together with Carlos Padrisa and Franc Aleu. Currently he is preparing an automatic puppet theatre situated in a container with music by Kats Chernin. http://www.fasterthansound.com/artists/roland_olbeter.html http://www.fasterthansound.com/artists/roland_olbeter.html artists Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:35:55 +0000