The Kammer Klang String Quartet will be playing GAVIN BRYARS' string quartet no 2, and PURCELL three part Fantasies as a support set for NICO MUHLY at one of London's most beautiful venues...THE UNION CHAPEL,

We will also be playing a few things with Nico in his set, lots of stuff about him below, this will be a magical gig, please come!

KAMMER KLANG FRIENDS GET A DISCOUNT!!!!!!!

Tickets are normally £10, but can get them for £6 by emailing your name to ....... ben@jointhecircle.net

SO HERE'S NICO:

If you enjoy the music of Peter Broderick, Sylvain Chaveau, Max Richter, Arvo Part, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman or Johann Johannsson you will enjoy the music of Nico Muhly. The composer of the score to the (Oscar winning) Kate Winslett film - The Reader and much, much more...

Nico Muhly and Guests (Sam Amidon + Doveman)
with Kammer Klang String Quartet

Nico Muhly attended Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where he studied composition under Christopher Rouse and John Corigliano. Before graduating from college, Muhly began working for Philip Glass, conducting and making demos for his film scores. Since then, Muhly's works have been premiered by the Chicago Symphony, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra, the Boston Pops, Clare College Choir, New York's Saint Thomas Church Choir, and the Paris Opera, among others, and he has written film scores for Choking Man (2006), Joshua (2007), Margaret (2009) and the Acadamy Award nominated film, The Reader (2008). He is also a skilled performer, arranger, and conductor to such musicians as Björk, Rufus Wainwright and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. Both of his albums, Speaks Volumes (2007), Mothertongue (2008) and live shows have received high acclaim in the international press. Upcoming commissions include an opera developed by the Metropolitan Opera and the English National Opera and a dance with choreographer, Stephen Petronio. He currently lives in New York City.

http://www.myspace.com/muhly
http://www.myspace.com/samamidon
http://www.myspace.com/doveman

Sounds and looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB46mn8Exd8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdc2BYdVhTg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axVLPk-U6ps

Tickets:
http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/events.php/120/nico_muhly_and_guests_sam_amidon_doveman

THIS MONTHS KAMMER KLANG - 28TH APRIL, CHARLIE WRIGHT'S, 8PM..........

MIRA CALIX & OLIVER COATES

Mira Calix (electronics) and Oliver Coates (cello) perform and write together as a duo, and have released on Warp Records and Touchin Bass. Live they improvise and rework tracks from Skimskitta, Eyes set against the Sun. They have performed at festivals in Singapore, Milan, Paris and in the uk at Latitude, Loop, Ether at the South Bank, Aldeburgh and at the Barbican. See/hear: www.miracalix.com, www.olivercoates.com

ANNA MEREDITH - Solo Electronics

Composer Anna Meredith will be performin' and exploring some of her solo electronic material including her beat-based remix of Scotland the Brave and excerpts from her recent opera -Tarantula in Petrol Blue. Expect some four to the floor action.
www.annameredith.com

HENRY PURCELL - Three part Fantasias, KK String Trio

These beautiful short pieces (a selection of fantasias) written between 1670-80 mark an end to Purcell's compositions for consorts. Although written in a style which was then regarded as very backward-looking and unfashionable, the Fantasias are an example of some of his most exquisite contrapuntal writing for string instruments.

EDGAR VARESE - Poème électronique

Poeme electronique needs little introduction - a multi-media installation piece written for the Brussels World Fair in 1958, it involved some 400 speakers, placed within Le Corbusier's (and Xenakis's) Philips Pavilion. Then, the music was played alongside visual projections created by the architect, but Kammer Klang will endeavour to provide an ear tickling representation of the original recorded tape, albeit with fewer speakers and straighter walls.
More about the piece here: www.music.columbia.edu/masterpieces/notes/varese/index.html
Listen to Poeme Electronique with visuals by someone random www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1AT8rI_A8M&feature=related


AH! YOU SITTING, COMFORTABLY- Cowboy George by Adam de la Cour

Ah! you, sitting comfortably?' are Peter Willcock (baritone/actor) and Vicky Wright (clarinet). They are committed story tellers - but words can become music, actions can become narrative, narrative may tell a story.... or may be its undoing. Written for them and premiered last year, Adam de la Cour's Verschärfte Vernehmung/Cowboy George takes its title from the Gestapo term for 'enhanced interrogation' and stars Cowboy George - someone who is violent and impulsive, who behaves in a hot- headed and rash manner, named George.
See/hear:www.ahyousittingcomfortably.com



Charlie Wright's International Bar
45 Pitfield Street
Nearest tube OLD STREET
N1 6DA
£5
8pm
As always - Great Thai food & Beer

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/index.php/Magazine-Write-Stuff/Write-Stuff/Kammer-Klang-at-Charlie-Wright-s.html

10/02/09
Kammer Klang’s objective, to explore the “ever blurring boundaries at the edge of contemporary classical music” seeks to challenge existing musical forms with a progressive intention. Their success lay in the delivery as much as the product.

Scott Lygate’s performance of Harald Genzmer’s bass clarinet solo sonata communicated the vitality and inexhaustible imagination of its composer. Lygate expressed Genzmer’s distinctive representation of elegance touched by an illustrative compassion.

Steve Riech’s Grammy Award winning composition, Different Trains, received a penetrating recital by the Kammer Klang string quartet. Reich’s distinctive looped tape recording bore hypnotically into the audience’s consciousness as train whistles, pistons, screaming breaks and human dialogue combined to intense and harrowing effect. The melodic lines, though sharp, tangential and leaden with harmonic tension, were executed with sensitivity to the emotional undercurrents woven into the composition.

An animated score designed by the enigmatic Leafcutter John, projected onto a blank canvas, provided the structural platform for in-performance composition by the Kammer Klang quartet. Four lines colour coded to each musician respectively, warped over time in size, shape and position, which the musicians interpreted by variations in volume, pitch, attack and decay. The absence of rhythmic, harmonic and melodic structure entailed that the music emanated directly from each musician’s emotional centre. Despite the freedom afforded by this method of musical expression there was an evident coherence to the group’s performance.

An arresting improvised solo set by Leafcutter John of his pioneering ‘folktronica’ concluded the evening. A multi-layered, multi-textured electronic soundscape instantaneously engaged the audience. The acoustic fabrics of guitar, accordion and voice interacted with electronic sound swarms and distortions as each effect seemingly consumed its predecessor.

The musical and intellectual density of the evening matched its engaging and accessible nature: a fine combination for such progressive music.

Review: Joseph Kassman-Tod

Every fourth Tuesday of the month Kämmer Klang will host a night of music disintegrating ever blurring boundaries at the edge of contemporary classical music in collaboration with London electronic musicians, improvisers and visual artists. Members of Kämmer Klang perform works by living composers, Matthew Shlomowitz and Anna Meredith and a string trio by the modern giant, György Kurtág, an electronic set from Isambard Khroustaliov with film by Alice Scott, and improvisations from Alex Bonney on piccolo trumpet complete this exciting new night at Charlie Wright's.

Kämmer Klang Members

Ed Brenton - Violin
Rob Ames - Viola
Lucy Railton - Cello
Sarah Cresswell - Metallic Percussion

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH

£5 on the door, great beer and Thai Food, nearest Tube Old Street, 45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA, starts 8.30pm.

www.icarus.nu / www.annameredith.com / www.shlom.com / www.squintopera.com

From my lovely friends at SKIP THEATRE! Footage of our night at the Amersham Arms, Alice in Wonderland theme, heavily supported by FEEDBACK - an improv thing to the choreography of SKIP THEATRE. some craaazzzy shit to see here on the youtube link.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er3WM88Izlo

Hosted By: Lucy Railton
When: 14 Aug 2008, 20:00
Where Cafe OTO
18-20 Ashwin Street, Dalston
London, London and South East|66 E83DL
United Kingdom
Description:
Lucy Railton

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