24 October, 2.30pm
Barbican Centre, Silk Street Music Hall, London EC2Y 8DT
Tikur, a work for cello and electronics composed by Ivan Liuzzo
ICI London supports the particpation of composer Ivan Liuzzo to the Festival Always Already There, the first UK edition of George Lewis’s Afrodiasporic Incubator project, presented by the Barbican Centre and Guildhall School of Music & Drama: an international gathering composers and performers from all over the Afrodiaspora on contemporary new music, including public performances and discussions and talks. Ivan will be represented by his work Tikur for cello and electronics, and he will be invited to join discussions with other Afrodiasporic composers and performers.
An ear-opening celebration of the engagement by Afrodiasporic composers past and present with the interaction between live instrumental and electronic music, featuring four exciting soloists.
This concert invites us to listen and engage with works that exemplify Black radical tradition and ‘sounds (that) seek out a worlding between human and nonhuman entities through an endless capacity for reconfiguration, reorganization to materialize worlds outside the locked grooves of anti-Black violence and environmental destruction.’ (Henry Ivry)
Featuring leading clarinettist Heather Roche and cellist Elliott Bailey, flautist Lara Aisha Ali and Norwegian-based violist Laura M. B. Kumwenda performing five UK premieres of work by electronic music pioneers, from Moroccan composer Ahmed Essyad and Olly Wilson (US) alongside works by Ivan Liuzzo, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Pamela Z, Allison Loggins-Hull and Marcos Balter.
Always, Already There is the first UK edition of George Lewis’s Afrodiasporic Incubator project. Curated by vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener, in partnership with Guildhall School of Music & Drama. It explores the radical, varied and richly experimental work of Afrodiasporic composers, past and present.
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