Voiceworks 2013 Free Performance at Wigmore Hall
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The culmination of the Voiceworks 2013 programme will be performed live at Wigmore Hall on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at 17.30.
The performance is free and open to all, though tickets need to be booked in advance by calling +44 (0)20 7935 2141.
Click here for further information about Wigmore Hall.
This digital project, led from the CPRC Birkbeck with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC.
This is the seventh year of this unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, and composers, singers and instrumentalists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. New works for voice are created from a long process of exchange, improvisation and practice between October-May, and the resulting songs are a sign of the vibrancy and creative potential of a new generation of work. Many previous participants have gone on to collaborate on projects in Britain and internationally, or have developed their practice in new directions because of their Voiceworks experience, and it’s a chance to encounter their work first, here.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre welcomes Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte.
A presentation:
Poems for the Millennium: Volume Four
The University of California Book of North African Literature
Followed by Domopoetics: Personal & Shared Artistic Practices
A Multimedia performance that meanders dialogically between Pierre Joris’ poems, translations & thinking, & Nicole Peyrafitte’s drawings & videos, voice- & textual work.
Tuesday 14 May, from 7pm
Room 253
Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, London WC1
Electronic Voice Phenomena is an experimental literature, performance and music show that takes its inspiration from Konstantin Raudive’s notorious ‘Breakthrough’ experiments of the 1970s, where he claimed to capture voices-from-beyond in electronic noise.
Featuring new work by Hannah Silva, Ross Sutherland, SJ Fowler and Outfit.
Dates:
10 May 2013 The Sage, Gateshead
15 May 2013 St George's Hall, Liverpool
17 May 2013 The Basement, Brighton
18 May 2013 Rich Mix, London
19 May 2013 The Cube, Bristol
22 May 2013 Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
23 May 2013 Arc Stockton
25 May 2013 Norwich Arts Centre
Thursday 9 May 2013
In the last POLYply until the autumn, Emma Conway presents new material from her serial project 'bodies of work'; Ian Davidson reads new poems on geographic and social mobility; Juha Virtanen (and friends) re-encounter Allen Fisher's early 1970s work Blood Bone Brain; Jennifer Walshe presents a process-oriented performance.
Free entry, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Friday 16 November 2012
A one-day symposium and evening performance bringing together scientists, artists, researchers, musicians and poets around the common topic of the voice, organised by James Wilkes. Evening performances include a reprise of In Air (Bennett, Barnett-McIntosh, and Crockatt), and work by Holly Pester, Emma Bennett, James Wilkes, Carol Watts and Will Montgomery among others.
The Science Museum’s Dana Centre
165 Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HD
See Wilkes's VoxLab project at http://thevoxlab.org/
Monday 12 November 2012
This event is an exploration of the intersection of composition, text and field recording. American composer Michael Pisaro, a member of the Wandelweiser collective, will talk about his recent CDs July Mountain (the score of which develops from a poem by Wallace Stevens) and Crosshatches, a collaboration with Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda. A panel of respondents will comment on the work presented: architect Paul Bavister (UCL/ Bartlett) and poet-critics Carol Watts (Birkbeck) and Drew Milne (Cambridge).
Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1, 7pm.
Presented by the Royal Holloway Poetics Centre
Wed 01 August 2012
Veer Books will launch a new series of variously named publications featuring work by younger innovative writers, four at a time, called 'VierSomes' (or '4somes' or 'Quartets' ...)
This event will launch the series with readings from some of the featured authors:
Becky Cremin, Amy Evans, Edmund Hardy, Danny Hayward, Frances Kruk, slmendoza, Nat Raha
Date: 01 August 2012, 8:00pm
Venue: Poetry Library, Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London SE1 8XX
Admission: FREE but to book a place guests must email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk
(once these places have been filled, there may be spaces available on the night)
VierSome # 0 Edmund Hardy, Danny Hayward, slmendoza, Samuel Solomon
VierSome # 1 Becky Cremin, Amy Evans, Nat Raha, Frances Kruk
Thursday 02 August 2012
Temple de Port-Royal Quartier Latin, Port-Royal 18, boulevard Arago - 75013 Paris, 7pm
Leçons de ténèbres : Première Leçon
François Couperin 1668 – 1733
Deuxième Concert Royal
François Couperin 1668 – 1733
II motet a voix seule pour le S. Sacrament : O Sacrum Convivium
André Campra 1660 – 1744
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Leçons de ténèbres : Deuxième Leçon
Troisième : Concert Royal
François Couperin 1668 – 1733
Dixit Dominus : Tecum principium
George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
Performers:
Iria Perestrelo – soprano
George Clifford – violin
Donald Bennet – viol
Alex McCartney – theorbo
Joseph Chesshyre - harpsichord
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died. Here he is rehearsing Schubert's Winterreise in 1979.
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Voiceworks 2012 Performance
The culmination of the Voiceworks 2012 programme will be performed live at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 23 May 2012 at 17.30.
The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support.
The performance is free to attend, but tickets need to be booked in advance (this is very simple to do, and costs nothing).
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/voiceworks-29988
A recording of the Voiceworks 2012 concert will be subsequently published on the voiceworks.org.uk website.
This digital project, led from the CPRC Birkbeck with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC.
Voiceworks is supported by
