Creative Sessions . . .

Hi everyone,

  

Our last two creative sessions went really quickly and very productive, with Mira Calix conducting us and getting our 40 Balloons idea off the ground ! we finished our compositions of Pop Music for the Radio broadcast and live concert performance :)

With electronic sounds by Mira, and David Powell from the London Sinfonietta playing Tuba, the sounds from each piece increased in their intensity, from the very low Walking Bass with David, to the Dirge and Memories with Mira playing electronics. 

From the relationship between the sound and movement Katie has choreographed three dance pieces based on the themes of Memory, Dirge and Outerspace connected in the structure to the music compositions. 

Rachel and Mira are programming the Yellow and Blue room from 9 - 10.30pm, inbetween live performances. The pieces they are programming include Dr Samuel J Hoffman Deep Purples, Raymond Scott Ciny Electromium, BBC Radiophonic Workshop Dr Who, Bernard Parmegiani En Phase/Hors Parase, Paul Lansky Smalltalk, Luciano Berio (Sinfonia) II O King, and many more . . . 

We are also working with lighting designer Huw Llewlyn, from the Southbank Centre, for the event. Our three rooms for the night have themes created for their colour, the Yellow Room,  the Blue Room, and the foyer! 

  

In each room we have Balloons floating in the space, and comfy seats to rest while listening to the concert for the 40th Birthday celebrations!

Come and join us for lots of fun at the Spirit Level, RFH 13th dec . . .

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hi everyone,

On Tuesday 2nd dec, London Sinfonietta had the first part to their 40th Birthday Anniversay at the Queen Elizebeth Hall, Southbank. With performances by Harrison Birtwistle, Christian Mason, Lorry Grove and John Adams as well as a live DJ performance by Mira Calix after the concert and an animation installation in collaboration with Kingston University Animation students in the QEH foyer.

Will Crook of the Culture Collective also painted the 40th Birthday Logo onto the wall in the foyer at QEH, and the animation students created a wall for messages which the audience were able to write and draw their thoughts...

Amah Asomani, Street Genius has taken many beautiful photographs of the rehearsals for the concert on Tuesday. Here are just a few of the photos, showing the London Sinfonietta musicians rehearsing Cortege by Harrison Birtwistle.

The photographs by Amah of the rehearsal, together with archive photographs of the London Sinfonietta's musicians and composers over the 40 years from the ensembles opening in 1968, are being projected as part of the London Sinfonietta's 40th Birthday event on 13th dec.

Some members of the Culture Collective and Street Genius also performed with Harmonicas and percussion in a new composition by Christian Mason, In the Midst of the Sonorous Island, commisioned especially for the London Sinfonietta's 40th Birthday concert.

Here we are in the rehearsals earlier in the day, 36 musicians and non-musicians took part and performed from the audience in the piece.

More blogs to come . . .