Diary

Piano Circus 20in09 Festival Shuffle

notes inégales are one of Europe's most innovative ensembles, known for the vivacity of their performances, the sheer liveness and unpredictability, and for the range of their work , from tight and funky to chaotic and wild. Peter Wiegold conducts and directs improvisation from the keyboard. Into the mix tonight; Matt Rogers and Larry Goves, Richard Barrett, Andrew Poppy and more...

La Belle Epoque by Peter Wieogold for keyboard and piano
Re-Mixed by duoDorT with Grohs

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2.15-3pm: Shuffle I: notes inégales Six Sound and Music shortlist composers submit musical ‘postcards’ and films around the theme of ‘shuffle’ or ‘swing’. Starting with soloists from notes inégales, (Torbjorn Hultmark, trumpet, Melinda Maxwell, oboe, Martin Butler, piano, Christophe Fellay, percussion) building back to the full group. The Sound and Music postcards will be score and audio based, including samples/live electronics and will be developed in collaboration with Peter Wiegold. Composers, composer/performers may join the improvisation.

Shuffle II: Christian Marclay notes inégales perform Christian Marclay’s ‘Shuffle’. Marclay photographed the appearance of musical notation in everyday places --finding examples on shop awnings, chocolate tins, T-shirts, underwear and other unexpected places. He then presented the 75 images in a box of oversized playing cards, creating a chance -based visual experience, that is also the basis for a spontaneous musical score.

Earth & Stars: notes inégales Earth and Stars (UK Premiere) – Peter Wiegold The piece was inspired by a poem written by Mozart ‘Here rests a dear fool’, and was commissioned by ensemble xxj Vienna, for Mozart’s 250th anniversary. The piece is for a requiem for Mozart, and for the ‘fin-de-siècle’ of Vienna. It is performed by an unusual ensemble: piccolo, cor anglais, contra bassoon, viola, double bass, piano, percussion and 4 harmonicas. Dark, earthy and a little incomplete, like some archaic funeral band that has been dug up from the soil, and no one can quite remember how to play the instruments and the music.