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.