Its good to be back working with the London Sinfonietta, we have a really exciting project we are currently working on with the London Sinfonietta but before we start with the new work, Id like to show you some photos from 'The Buildings are Alive...' event in the summer!
Inspired by the London Sinfonietta repertoire and 'Psycho Buildings' exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 2008, you can see more about this exhibition here http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-exhibitions/psycho-buildings
The 16th Aug event with Culture Collective, Street Genius and London Sinfonietta was a great day and we had really positive feedback from the audience members who came to see us! On the day we had live performances by the London Sinfonietta players including pianist John Constable playing Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano by John Cage, cellist Tim Gill playing Eternal Escape by Dai Fujikura and percussionist Sam Walton playing Dark Ground by Tansy Davies.
We also had an animation film by Will Crook, a Culture Collective member, created to original compositions by Culture Collective Jordan Hunt, Tom-Olaf Urb and Antoine Francoise and Benji Fox and Street Genius AJ.
These were projected onto five screens placed in and around the musicians on the Clore Ballroom. You can see all the animation films and compositions on the London Sinfonietta youtube site at this address http://uk.youtube.com/user/LondonSinfonietta
The projections also had a film with interviews from the composers and the musicians playing live music, giving their thoughts about the works and their feelings as musicians playing them.
The audience were given headphones which gave them the option of listening to the live performances, and the films being shown which included the animation and interviews.
The audience were encouraged to walk around the space and interact with the installations of the performance. The installation that Benji created was a pre-repaired piano (cic.) that was a piano he constructed out of wood with keys that trigger sound bites. This was a fascinating piece and many adults and children really enjoyed playing with this installation to explore the music.
As well as live music performances, films and installations inside the Clore Ballroom there was also live dance and music performances happening outside, by the Royal Festival Hall, the Southbank and Hayward Gallery.
Here are the dancers in the piece, Masumi Saito, Nick Lawson, Katie Keeble and Jade Yung.
and playing with us is Jordan Hunt, Culture Collectice, on Violin and Sam Walton, London Sinfonietta with percussion.
We performed the piece three times outside and also once inside as a finale to the event on the Clore Ballroom together with Sam Walton playing Dark Ground by Tansy Davies and Tim Gill playing Eternal Escape by Dai Fuikura.
The Street Genius team from all the 22 organisations from the Southbank Cultural Quater also came down to the Royal Festival Hall for 'The Buildings are Alive...' event, it was great to see them all together from all the different art forms they are working with.
The scheme is funded by SOWF Some Other Way Forward, aiming to reach a new audience for young people in Southwark and Lambeth.With AJ and Emrul ensuring everyone was happy and ready to go! they were flyering during the whole event and talking with the public along the Southbank area getting audience members to come and see what we are doing inside and outside the Royal Festival Hall.
All the photographs from 'The Buildings are Alive...' event are by photographer Justin Pipergev, 2008.
We had a great day on Aug 16th and now we are getting ready for our next event that is being held at the Royal Festival Hall Spirit Level, Southbank Centre on 13th Dec 2008 for London Sinfonietta's 40th Birthday! We'll keep you updated with the process and news about the event and see you there!
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