Presentation-discussion chaired by Nicholas Brown, with Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, & Conor Kelly.
Saturday 10 May, 2.00pm. National Film Theatre 3, BFI Southbank, London.
Presented by SPNM in association with the British Film Institute.
A day focusing on the relationship between composers and performers, including a panel discussion on the subject of collaboration chaired by Philip Flood, with David Alberman, Peter Wiegold and Nicholas Brown.
Saturday 5 April, 2008 at LSO St Lukes, Old Street, London.
THE MAGDALEN SERVICE (1995)
Evensong (5.00pm) at St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Two, related works will feature in this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. One is a transdisciplinary performance for concert-style presentation, the other is a domestic installation with ‘micro-performances’ that examines the demands of the former.
THE SOUL FINDS REST IN UNITY (2007) is an installation-performance in a domestic environment, in which violinist, Monica Germino, will reside for the duration of her stay in Huddersfield. Through video, sound, documents, drawings & micro-performances, this live installation theatricalizes the process of encountering my transdisciplinary work, THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN (2006-7), in terms of implications for the physical body and the violin-as-prosthesis. On 17 November, at 4 pm, Monica will give the UK première of this new work in her solo concert, PLUGGED & UNPLUGGED.
Information about these two events is available on the HCMF website.
The WRITING section is finally online. There are 5 texts about fairly recent works up at the moment. More to follow, including some theoretical pieces.
The courtyard of the Said Business School, Oxford is the location for AN AUDIENCE WITH THE TREES. The installation runs from 11-13th June and can be visited between 5.30 & 7.00pm.
On June 11, 2007, I’ll be making an installation and giving a live performance for OCM (Oxford Contemporary Music) at The Jam Factory, Oxford.
The installation will be AN AUDIENCE WITH THE TREES (2005). Using six, musical birdboxes, this work transforms Vivaldi’s Four Seasons into birdsong, via my violin concerto of 2003, Vivaldi’s Menagerie.
I’ll also be performing my 1999 pianowork, THE RAINBOW BOOK, for which I’ve recently made a series of short videoworks. Each video is designed to be controlled by the live performance of each piece of music. Overall, the work addresses the physiological effect of colour on the human eye, according to Goethe’s Theory of Colours.
For event information on the OCM website, click here.
Information about Monica Germino’s forthcoming performances of THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN in Canada next month can be found here.
The work is a transdisciplinary paean to musical performance that compares the act of practising the violin to the Egyptian legend of Isis & Osiris. As Isis reunited the dismembered parts of Osiris’s body, so the violinist seeks to reassemble fragmented phrases from a sonata by JS Bach. THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN comprises sung and spoken text, video, choreographed movement, electronics and live violin. It is the latest in my series of works that explores that nature of musical experience using both musical and non-musical media.
THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN features as part of Monica’s new solo programme, PLUGGED & UNPLUGGED, for violin, electric violin & voice with soundtrack, effects, samples, film, movement and installations. The programme includes pieces written especially for Monica, such as Louis Andriessen ’s XENIA, Heiner Goebbels’s BAGATELLEN FUR VIOLINE as well as a version of Michael Gordon’s INDUSTRY for adapted violin and Philip Glass’s STRUNG OUT.