[Microsound-announce] Cut and Splice: Acousmonium

[Richard Whitelaw]

Sonic Arts Network, BBC Radio 3 and the ICA present

CUT AND SPLICE 2006: ACOUSMONIUM
5 -7 May, 2006
 
Cut and Splice brings the multi-loudspeaker orchestra, the Acousmonium, to
London for the first time in its 30 year history. Sonic Arts Network, BBC
Radio 3 and the ICA provide a rare chance for audiences and artists alike to
experience this performance machine first hand. The festival presents some
of the leading international names in current experimental electronic music
­ including Hans-Joachim Roedelius, John Wall, Zbigniew Karkowski, Eliane
Radigue and Florian Hecker - performing alongside the great figures of the
Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), François Bayle, Michel Chion and
Christian Zanési.
  
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
 
Friday 5 May, 7.30pm doors, 8pm start
 
Christian Zanési
Recent work from this principal contemporary GRM figure and exponent of the
French acousmatic.
 
John Wall
An exclusive and ultra-rare live performance from this celebrated British
electroacoustic composer. ŒThe listening ear is kept at a pitch of
alertness¹ (The Wire)
 
ICA Bar: Cut and Splice teams up with Touch Records for a celebration of
their 25 year anniversary and an audio-visual performance by Phil Jeck.
 
Saturday 6 May, 5pm doors, 5.30pm start
 
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Swedish sound conceptualist considered one of the foremost figures in the
field of radical sound performance and minimal electronics. ŒDefinitely for
the intrepid¹ (BBC)

Zbigniew Karkowski ­ Field (world premiere)
ŒBrilliant chamber group¹ Apartment House deliver a new extended work for
amplified string quartet and multichannel sound from this master of sonic
extremes. ŒUnrelenting intensity that falls between the totalitarian
critiques of Laibach and the sonic bloodletting of Hermann Nitsch¹
 
Michel Chion - Requiem
A classic extended piece of 1970s cinemagraphic electroacoustic music from
this renowned composer and leading theoretician of the acousmatic and
audio-visual arts. ŒMusique concrète at its purest and leanest, perhaps at
its most profound.¹

Florian Hecker ­ new work
A performance developed for the Acousmonium by established Mego sonic artist
and post-Xenakis purveyor of dynamic, volatile sound-objects. ŒMore
complicated, viscous and vicious than just about anything out on the free
market.¹
 
ICA Bar: Cut and Splice DJ set from leading UK sound surgeon Russell
Haswell. ŒWhat a sound, a large, abrasive worm and it¹s burrowing down your
auditory canal!¹

Sunday 7 May, 5pm doors, 5.30pm start
 
Hans-Joachim Roedelius ­ Recognition (world premiere)

New Œphilosophy in sound¹ for the Cut and Splice festival from this
self-taught Krautrock pioneer and heralded former Cluster member. ŒSerenity
without the sugar of New Age¹ (New York Times).
 
Eliane Radigue ­ Elemental
Laptop supergroup The Lappetites (Kaffe Matthews, AGF, Ryoko Kuwajima)
perform the music of this respected and highly individual Parisian figure.
ŒOne of the most important and under-recognised composers working todayŠher
music is extraordinarily evocative.¹
                   
François Bayle - L¹Expérience Acoustique
Cut and Splice climaxes with this celebrated hero of French musique concrète
presenting his visionary two-hour journey through the listening experience
and the sounding world, an epic work, unrivalled in scope and ambition.
ŒBeauty is priceless and unattainableŠ and here it is, relentlessly and
without effort.¹
 
ICA Bar: post-festival listening hosted by ReR records, one of the UK¹s
leading and longest standing experimental music labels.

Tickets:
 
Weekend pass: £25
Friday: £10
Saturday: £12
Sunday: £12
 
Box Office & Information:
 
ICA, The Mall, London SW1
Tickets & Box Office Information: 020 7930 3647
Buy online at www.ica.org.uk

Nearest tubes: Charing Cross / Piccadilly Circus
 
Broadcasts:
Catch Cut and Splice performances and exclusive artist interviews on BBC
Radio 3¹s Hear and Now, 90-93 FM, 13 and 20 May, 11.00pm

Listen to the shows online at
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow
 
ŒArtistically inspiredŠCut and Splice awed¹ The Wire
 
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