Nicholas Brown will give a talk entitled, ‘Practising Every Day: Musical Acts in our Daily Lives‘ as part of the current exhibition, The Artist’s Studio at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.
Thursday 20 May, 13.15 | Gallery Reception | Admission Free
AS I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE returns to London in April for a performance at the Louise Blouin Foundation, London W11. Thursday 15 April. Doors 6.30pm. Performance 7pmTickets £12 full /£8 concessions/£5 members
Ticket price includes a glass of champagne. To order tickets please contact the Louise Blouin Foundation on 020 7985 9600. Tickets can be purchased at the door subject to availability.
www.ltbfoundation.org
The tour of performances of AS I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE continues…
School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Monday 15 March, 19:30
13-14 AUGUST | 10pm | Riverside Studios, London | Tickets £6 (£4)
Following the sell-out performance of AS I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE (2008) at Kings Place in February, Riverside Studios in London will host two performances during the Tête à Tête festival of opera. Linda Hirst leads the cast, with Natasha Lohan, Nicholas Brown and Timothy Connor.
For information and tickets on the Riverside web site, click here
What is it in the activity of making music that gives us access to our past? How does music find clarity in the muddiness of memory? AS I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE (2008), investigates the psychology of singing through the relationship between a singing teacher (Linda Hirst) and her pupil (Natasha Lohan). The performers build an installation-set during the show by suspending polythene walls from the ceiling and transforming the space into a nexus of rooms. The pupil assembles a bird chamber to make an aviary for a quartet of ‘birds’ that ’sings’ eighteenth-century music. The audience is invited to wander through the installation while the performers decode musical notation with mirrors and trace salt-patterns in red paint. Halfway through the show, one performer leaves the space and begins her own, satellite performance…
Nicholas Brown’s installation, BIRD CHAMBER (2008) will be on show for the duration of the inaugural, Greenwich International String Quartet Festival (April 17-19, 2009). Recently seen at Kings Place, London, in the context of his installation-performance, AS I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE, the installation will be situated in the Loggia of Trinity College of Music at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. For further details, on the festival web site, click here.
MIMOMANIAC will present THE MEANING BETWEEN US at Kings Place, London on Feburary 10th, 2009. Promoted by Sound & Music, the show comprises an anthology of live installations, films and micro-performances that frames Nicholas Brown’s new, transdisciplinary work on the psychology of singing, AS I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE (featuring guest vocalist, Linda Hirst). The show begins online: please visit www.mimomaniac.com to find out more and choose a pathway through the evening’s events…
MIMOMANIAC is a new performance group that returns contemporary music to its roots in the movements of the body. The group creates theatrical installation-performances & interactive events that take a highly visual approach to new musical performance. Click here to visit the portal for the group’s forthcoming show at King’s Place, London.
THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN will be performed/screened in New York and Alkmaar (NL) during Monica Germino’s forthcoming tour of her ‘Plugged & Unplugged’ programme.
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.