Date
Thursday 9 June 2011 at 7:30pm
Location
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road,
London,
SE1 8XX,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44.(0)20 7960 4200
Web: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall
Link
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/classical/tickets/electronica-iii-58989
Description
Graham Fitkin: Excerpts from Kaplan
Pulp: This is hard core arr. Anne Dudley
Javier Alvarez: Overture
Javier Alvarez: Pyramid
Nico Muhly: Seeing is believing (Concerto for 6-string electric violin & chamber orchestra)
Patrick Nunn: Fata morgana for cello, ensemble & live electronics
Aphex Twin: Nannou arr. Patrick Nunn
Eduardo Miranda: Sacra conversazione
Andrew Poppy: Revolution number eight: airport for Joseph Beuys
Edward Williams: Suite from Life on Earth
BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood conductor
Jarvis Cocker presenter
Hearing is believing - Jarvis is your host, and plays Pulp's This Is Hard Core with the BBC Concert Orchestra...
Hearing is an illusion - Andrew Poppy's Revolution No. 8 Airport for Joseph Beuys wires the orchestra inside a box of electric delights designed to scatter sound to the outer limits. Patrick Nunn connects an electric cello into shape shifting electronics that manipulate instrumental sounds into shimmering reflections in his Fata Morgana and gives Aphex Twin's Nannou an acoustic-twist. From South America, Eduardo Mirando and Javier Álvarez demonstrate the alchemy of transmuting acoustic tones into electric gold...
Hearing is not believing what you see - Graham Fitkin's Kaplan reminds us of the menacing antihero of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North By Northwest, a man who definitely doesn't want you to know who he is. Also hiding in the acoustic undergrowth is Edward Williams' music conceived for David Attenborough's Life on Earth.
And Seeing is Believing, the title of young New York superstar composer Nico Muhly's concerto for electric six-string violin and orchestra - electronica evoking celestial clouds and telescopic, foraging insects...
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