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Tom Service introduces Simon Steen-Andersen's new work grosso, for amplified quartet, Leslie loudspeakers and orchestra, in the sensational premiere performance at last October's Donaueschingen festival in Germany. Also from Donaueschingen, George Lewis's concerto for symphonic orchestra, improvising human soloist, and improvising AI-pianist: The Reincarnation of Blind Tom was inspired by the extraordinary life of the enslaved nineteenth century pianist and composer Thomas Wiggins, who is, as George Lewis says, "Metaphorically reincarnated as Tom using Artificial Intelligence and his own Voyager interactive "virtual improvisor".
Along with these blockbusters, there's a short work for Conch Shell by Wan Ying and the Colin Currie and his Percussion Quartet play David Horne's Pulse for solo marimba and Aileen Sweeney's Starburst, a work she says "inspired by the astrophysical process of a starburst in which stars are born at a particularly fast rate and also by a well-known brand of fruit-flavoured chewy sweets which I was often partial to on trips to the corner shop as a kid."

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