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Tectonics Glasgow 2019

Tectonics 2019. The 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 annual festival of new and experimental music featuring music by Christian Wolff, Jennifer Walshe and Luc Ferrari.

Highlights from Tectonics 2019, the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 annual festival of new and experimental music, presented by Kate Molleson.

Andrew Hamilton: c (UK Premiere)
Jennifer Walshe: The Site Of An Investigation (UK Premiere)
Christian Wolff: Old Shoe, New Shoe (World Premiere)

Joey Baron (jazz drums)
Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion)
Jennifer Walshe (singer)
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Luc Ferrari: Programme commun for harpsichord and tape
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

plus a report on Lucie Vitkova's live performance installation, Makeup Scores: Environmental Music.

Christian Wolff鈥檚 麻豆社 commission, Old Shoe, New Shoe was inspired by a large painting by Philip Guston, and the result is a sonic landscape of some scale. Two solo percussionists interweave with the orchestra, constantly changing performing situations: moving from leader, to follower; from written notes to free improvisation.
Jennifer Walshe's The Site of An Investigation ranges wildly over our contemporary predicament, taking in microplastics, Facebook likes, grief, precarity, interplanetary colonisation, artificial intelligence and loss. The work is coloured by shifts between raw emotion and the blackest humour.

Festival co-curator Ilan Volkov says, 鈥淭ectonics Glasgow Festival is the highlight of my year. The festival of course keeps changing but its main strength is really showing a diverse range of new music from classical composers using notation, improvisers without any notation, to electronic music, sound art and performance art as well.鈥

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 11 May 2019 22:00

Music Played

  • Christian Wolff

    Burdocks

    Performer: Joey Baron. Performer: Robyn Shulkowsky. Performer: Jennifer Walshe. Performer: Juliana Hodkinson. Performer: Angharad Davies.
  • Andrew Hamilton

    C

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
  • Jennifer Walshe

    The Site Of An Investigation

    Performer: Jennifer Walshe. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
  • Lucie V铆tkov谩

    Makeup Scores: Environmental Music

    Performer: Lucie V铆tkov谩. Performer: Maya Verlaak. Performer: Suze Whites. Performer: Jorge Boehringer.
  • Luc Ferrari

    Programme commun pour clavecin amplif茅 et bande magn茅tique

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
  • Julia Reidy

    One Way Mirror

    Performer: Julia Reidy.
    • Slip.
  • Christian Wolff

    Old Shoe, New Shoe

    Performer: Joey Baron. Performer: Robyn Schulkowsky. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 May 2019 22:00

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