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Hugh Shrapnel and Sarah Walker piano duet

Hugh Shrapnel sends us news that Chris Hobbs and Dave Smith aren’t the only piano duos doing their thing this week:

PIANO DUET BROADCAST FRIDAY 21st JUNE 2013; 2.00 PM ‘SOUND OUT’ – RESONANCE FM (104.4 FM)

New pieces for piano duet performed by Sarah Walker & Hugh Shrapnel

Hugh Shrapnel: ‘Tales of the South East’: Lewisham Market – Ladywell Station – La Chasse (dedicated to the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign).

Sarah Walker: Deioneus Inferno Sketch.

Martin Pyne: Bliss

We’ll be listening!

Hobbs on Soundcloud

Here’s a link to a soundcloud file of a concert by the Nottingham Wind Orchestra and Contempo New Music Ensemble. The first entry on the page (marked ‘Chris Hobs’) is No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again, Hobbs’ setting of the book of the same name edited by Sarah Simons, and published by the amazing Los Angeles Institution, the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

https://soundcloud.com/bitz1234567890

We think it’s rather neat playing by the students. Let us know what you think!

Fizzling while Rome burns

Mike is deeply committed to Fizzle (and our best on your nupts!):

Hi, Just to let you know about the Fizzle special this Thursday.
I’m sure that this gig will be incredible, so sure in fact that I’m taking a day out of my own stag do just to be there!

Paul Dunmall – saxes
Paul Rogers – 7 string bass
Mark Sanders – drums/percussion

30th May at The Lamp Tavern, Barford St, B5 6AH.
9pm, £8/6

The previous gigs with a similar line up have been full so arrive early to get a good seat!

Thanks,
Mike

We always knew that there would be Kööks at Fizzle!

The very nice Mike Hurley sends us Fizzling with köökies:

Fizzle this Tuesday 21st May at The Lamp Tavern, Barford St, Birmingham, B5 6AH.

8:30pm, £5/3. more info at www.blambirmingham.co.uk

kÖök:
Jørn Erik Ahlsen – guitar/Live electronics
Stian Larsen – guitar/electronics
Norwegian duo playing improvised, animated, ambient music.
www.kookmusic.co.nr

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Mike Hurley – piano. www.mikeyhurley.co.uk
Colin Webster – sax. http://colin-webster.blogspot.co.uk/

Don’t forget Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Mark Sanders on Thursday 30th May!

Hobbs and Smith play piano four hands and piano duo music

Christopher Hobbs and Dave Smith will appear in a lecture-recital, ‘British minimalist and postminimalist music for piano duet and two pianos’, at the Institute for Musical Research conference, With Four Hands: Music for Two Pianists on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 at 3.15 pm. This will be preceded by a paper by Virginia Anderson, ‘Remorseless lambs: Piano duets in British minimalism and postminimalism’, at 2.15 pm. Included in the lecture-recital will be works by Hobbs, Smith, John White, Michael Parsons, Howard Skempton, and others, representing some of the greatest works in the British minimalist and systems repertoire. This is going to be a historic concert, uniting two of the best-known systems piano duos of the 1970s (Hobbs of the Hobbs-White Duo, Smith of the Smith-Lewis Duo), with some pieces (such as an excerpt of Hobbs’ The Remorseless Lamb) in a rare performance or the first performance since the 1970s and 80s.

The event will occur at Senate House, Chancellor’s Hall, University of London (Malet Street London WC1E 7HU), and represents one session of the conference, with Anderson’s 20 minute paper and Hobbs and Smith’s 45 minute recital.

You can see the information here:

http://music.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences

and the entire programme here:

http://music.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/With%20four%20hands%20Schedule%2010may13-MDD.pdf

Two points:

1. Note that Anderson’s paper has been moved from the later time on this programme.

2. Also note that the prices for attending are for the entire day or the entire conference, so this might be financially viable for those of you with university research support. We are trying to find a venue with two matched pianos so that Hobbs and Smith can perform this as a concert (and include the whole of Remorseless Lamb). Do get in touch if you have/know about such a venue.

 

They’re ba-a-ack!

Fizzle with weird instruments:

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Shaw/Perez/Harling

Tuesday 7th May, 2013, 8:30pm

The Lamp Tavern, Barford St, B5 6AH.
£5 (£3 Concessions)
Walt Shaw – percussion and amplified objects
Herve Perez – saxes
Matt Harling – saxes and home-built instrumentsDont forget to put Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Mark Sanders gig in your diary for Thursday 30th May!
more info at www.blambirmingham.co.uk

Thanks,
Mike

Get a Michael Parsons piece — FREE!

Michael Parsons has given — yes, GIVEN — us a couple of his pieces from the late 1990s, with the idea that they should be taken up by as many people as possible. The first piece we’ve got is a pdf of a verbal piece called Pentachordal Melody. It’s really cool: the score reminds us of some of the pieces in Samuel Beckett’s systemic novel Watt.

For those of you who don’t know Michael Parsons, he’s one of the three founders of the Scratch Orchestra, and a major force in British experimental music.

To get this piece, go here — http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk/emc/Freebies.html — and follow the instructions. It will be emailed to you.

And even better yet, we’ve got another one coming as well….

Fizzle goes German!

This looks like a zippy concert:

Fizzle this Tuesday 2nd April at The Lamp Tavern, Barford St, B5 6AH.
8:30pm. £5/3

Matthias Müller (trombone)
Frank Paul Schubert (sax)
John Edwards (double bass)
Mark Sanders (drums)

German musicians Müller and Schubert’s Foils Duo is expanded with the UK’s finest bass and drums partnership. A rare treat to see such talented and experienced players in such an intimate setting for only five quid!

Hopefully see you there,
Mike