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.
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.
