THE EMBALMER INCLUDED IN...MIRA CALIX CURATES FOR WARP EARTH CATALOGUE
WARP EARTH ISSUE 6 - WARP RECORDS
GUEST CURATOR ON TAFELMUSIK NOV 1ST AT 3PM
EPISODE IS NOW UP ON NTS - LISTEN HERE
FIRST AIRED SUNDAY 1ST NOV AT 3PM ON @nts_radio WITH @ilfroz (AKA FRANCESCO FUSARO)
A FOCUS ON LIVING COMPOSERS WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN (CIS/TRANS), AND OTHER MARGINALISED GENDER IDENTITIES
THE SWIMMING POOL - FILM SCORE
The Swimming Pool, By Carmen Dusmet Carrasco
The work emerges after a 2-year, domestic-ethnographic research. In an attempt to find proof of what it means to practice care, Carmen develops an obsession to observe and capture her mother’s journey towards a precarious retirement. What began as a socio-economic study of female poverty in Spain, led to an intimate negotiation of a mother-daughter relationship. The work unapologetically submerges the viewer on a raw, personal journey about the cyclic aspect of life and the desperate qualities of love.
Find the Director Carmen Dusmet Carrasco on instagram
VAGUS is online!
(Premiere September 16th 2020)
[LAND] & OTHER HAZARDS Premiered on BBC Radio NEW MUSIC SHOW
Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including music from the recent Witten New Music Days, new solo works commissioned by Riot Ensemble, a major Proms premiere from Michael Finnissy and electronic music by Bérangère Maximin and Lee Fraser.
Listen back HERE (available until September 22nd 2020)
66 Days // Lola de la Mata x Britta Thie work-in-progress // Nonclassical x City of London commission
Painting “streams” by Britta Thie
Get an exclusive look at the inspirations and processes behind our multimedia commissions in partnership with the City of London. Marking 400 years since the Mayflower sailed to America, each of our four Associate Composers have been working alongside collaborators to create audio-visual works exploring the themes of journeys, migration and cultural identity.
Take a look at some of the initial ideas from Nonclassical Associate Composer Lola de la Mata and her chosen collaborator, director, artist, actor and model Britta Thie – their work is centred around the concept of migration and travelling through technology. This virtual scrapbook includes quotes, audio experiments, and images which will feed into the final piece, to be premiered alongside the other commissions via our YouTube channel on Wed 16 Sep.
Journal of Music x BBC Radio 3 Feature
https://journalofmusic.com/news-uk/music-will-always-find-its-way-bbc-radio-3-premiere-new-series-contemporary-commissions
Six contemporary classical composers have been commissioned to create new works as part of a collaborative project between PRS for Music, new music collective the Riot Ensemble and conceptual project, Zeitgeist. BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show with Kate Molleson and Tom Service is premiering the new works, three of which were broadcast last week.
Tune into BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show at 10pm on 22 August to listen to the rest of the new commissions.
To listen back to the previous programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lsz1
City of London Festival x Nonclassical presents: 66 Days
After a long wait to announce this mega trendy collab ;)
Nonclassical x City of London Festival got together to support Britta Thie (unbelievably cool Berlin based filmmaker, actor and model) and I to collaborate around themes of migration, marking 400 years since the Mayflower sailed to America.
This is just a short intro to us fumbling about at the beginning of our project:
https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/engage-1/2020/7/23/lola-britta
also check out Britta's work here: http://brittathie.tv/
Other collabs from Yfat Soul Zisso Blasio Kavuma Daniel Potter
Lockdown interview with NONCLASSICAL
This Saturday we were supposed to hear a world premiere from Associate Composer Lola de la Mata at QEH, performed by Southbank Sinfonia and conducted by Jessica Cottis. With the concert postponed like many others, we caught up with Lola about her experience of lockdown.
Queens of The Drag on charity album for #sisters uncut
released 26th May 2020
Riot Ensemble announces 2020 solo commissions
The Riot Ensemble have today announced six solo commissions as part of their ongoing Zeitgeist project.
In November last year, PRS for Music announced that it was joining forces with Riot Ensemble and award-winning artist and composer Mira Calix to offer composers the chance to take part in development and recording workshops.
With COVID-19 social distancing measures still in place, plans have been transformed to focus on solo works, online workshops and individual coaching and mentoring sessions.
Over the next few weeks, the pieces will be recorded by Riot Ensemble musicians at home.
The composers and musicians are as follows:
Joe Bates – Marianne Schofield (double bass)
Oliver Brignall – Ruth Rosales (bassoon)
Carmen Ho – Claudia Racovicean (piano)
Zoë Martlew – Ruth Rosales (bassoon)
Lola de la Mata – Ausias Garrigos (bass clarinet)
Aidan Teplitzky – Sam Wilson (percussion)
Read more about the collaborations here:
https://www.prsformusic.com/m-magazine/news/riot-ensemble-reveal-2020-solo-commissions/
RESONANCE EXTRA - Interview with Colliding Lines
Interview and broadcast of 3 compositions written for 1920s German experimental films from Colliding Lines Gig in March. Also featuring Ingrid Plum !
hear from me @ 1hr 11min
recorded Live on 05/03/20
I will be collaborating with a volunteer ‘feminist choir’, to develop a sound installation to celebrate difference and raise awareness on the diversity of voices who are often labelled as ‘other’ and silenced - to make audible and visible women (cis/trans) and non-binary voices.
Open Call Artist - Spitalfields Music X Rich Mix
'The Embalmer' - Track Release / nonclassical - February 28th
More Info + LISTEN here: https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/news/2020/3/2/outside-the-lines-vol-3
NEXT PERFORMANCE - March 5th @ New River Studio
I will be re-scoring 3 German 1920s abstract black & white films.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/693313554400585/
Poster Design by Angharad Hengyu Owen
JUNE 6th / Commission / World Premiere
In partnership with Nonclassical, this year Southbank Sinfonia perform world premieres from their four Associate Composers, providing a platform to the next generation of exciting composers:
https://www.southbanksinfonia.co.uk/events-item/11726/the-seven-deadly-sins/
November 2019 - THE GAZE - in collaboration with nonclassical
The Gaze – a term describing the act of seeing and being seen. Our event on Thursday 21 November explores identity, gender and The Gaze, bringing together female, non-binary and queer artists for an evening of performance art and new collaborations. Read on to learn about our artists, our curator Lola de la Mata and what you can expect from the evening.
https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/news/2019/10/29/meet-the-artists
Riccardo T. performing ‘Q-Hubris’, and Olivia Norris in the film ‘Sissy Fatigue’ @ IKLECTIK
MUSICITYXLOWLINE
JUNE 4th 2019 PERFORMANCE @UNDERDOG GALLERY 5PM TILL LATE
Musicity x Low Line London Architecture
Musicity, launched by Nick Luscombe, presenter of BBC Radio 3’s greatly-loved Late Junction music show, is collaborating with the Low Line in the latest instalment of a project which gives buildings and spaces their own new soundtrack and invites musicians and recording artists to compose tracks for cities around the world.
Fifteen musicians and recording artists have created fifteen audio tracks responding to fifteen locations in and around the railways arches which form the Low Line. Each composition can be streamed and downloaded free of charge but only by visiting each location with a smartphone. Once there, people can listen to the new music on musicityglobal.comwhile taking in the architecture and neighbourhood that inspired it.
William Doyle – The Shard
Gestalt – Vinegar Yard
Chihiro Ono – Bermondsey Street Tunnel
Tom Szirtes – Holyrood Street
Erland Cooper – Underdog Gallery
James Alec Hardy – Druid Street Wildflower Meadow
Frog Morris – Blue Bermondsey
Cunning Folk – Biscuit Factory
Full list of artists and their chosen Low Line locations:
Lola de la Mata – Old Union Yard Arches
Thomas Stone – Ewer Street
Szjerdene – Wardens Grove
The Memory Band – Flat Iron Square
Nabihah Iqbal aka Throwing Shade – Borough Market
Lossy – Southwark Cathedral
Suitman Jungle – London Bridge Station