notes inégales presents

A three-part event on Sunday 6 September 2009:

Three performances by Peter Wiegold's innovative ensemble notes inégales with special guests, including new works for improvising ensemble by Sound and Music's shortlist composers, Christian Marclay's Shuffle, and the UK premiere of Wiegold's tribute to Mozart, Earth and Stars.

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.

3.45-4.30pm: 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.

5-5.45pm: 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.

two nights at the ICA..

10 leading contemporary composers provide fragments, loops, samples & recompositions derived from Miles Davis, to go into the live 'brew' of notes inégales improvisation..

8/9th May 2008 7.30pm
Tickets £12/£10

Box Office: 020 7930 3647
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ICA
The Mall
London
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composers: Richard Barrett: Martin Butler: Philip Cashian: Tansy Davis: John Lunn: Claudia Molitor: Charlie Piper: Andrew Poppy: Colin Riley: Peter Wiegold. players: Joel Bell: Martin Butler: Christophe Fellay: Christian Forshaw: Torbjörn Hultmark: Graham Lee: John Lunn: Oren Marshall: Melinda Maxwell: Duncan Prescott: Peter Wiegold.