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Alpenglow
Friday 24 September — Sunday 26 September
The Vortex & Cafe Oto
London Alpenglow is an international improvised music summit mixing leading players from Styria in Austria with a wide range of top-draw musicians from the UK.
Embracing a true spirit of experimentation, this extended weekend of performance will mix many artists who, until now, have never shared a stage together, to create unexpected and unpredictable results.
Emerging from late 60s US and European free jazz and contemporary classical music scenes, freely improvised music has at its disposal the full spectrum of sonic experience from total noise to near absolute silence, from frenetic activity to glacial stillness and from focused solo performance to large group freakout.
Just as in relationships between groups and individuals there is the potential for danger and conflict as well as for concord and harmony. First time encounters can be particularly unpredictable.
Alpenglow is conceived as a volatile experiment and as a meeting of players speaking many musical tongues, those sounding with Apollonian poise, and those convulsing in Dionysian ecstasy.
It sets forth with the ecumenical verve of an interstellar missionary collaboration between the Society of Friends and the Ranters. The fate of this expedition will be resolved before the public gaze.
As well as suckling comedy politician and seven time Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger, Styria, a state of Austria surrounding its capital Graz, has produced a dynamic and, as yet, unknown in UK circles, breed of experimental musicians.
Alpenglow will bring these players en mass to London for a head-to-head with the best of our free improvisers. This event celebrates the common bonds this band of players share through the creation of spontaneous music.
Alpenglow takes place at Café Oto, and The Vortex.
British pianist and composer Veryan Weston and Austrian vocalist Annette Giesriegl, two of the leading figures in improvised music in their respective countries, have selected the artists performing over the weekend.
The event will bring together 30 players drawn from across the spectrum of current approaches to improvised music performance in small group contexts and a large improvising orchestra lead by the celebrated UK musician Steve Beresford.
Artists performing at Alpenglow:
Annette Giesriegl, Steve Beresford, Allison Blunt, Gail Brand, Angharad Davies, Jane Dickson, James Dunn, Elisabeth Harnik, Seppo Gründler, Josef Klammer, Katherina Klement, Caroline Kraabel, Peter Lackner, Klaus Lang, Hannah Marshall, Hugh Metcalfe, Maggie Nicols, Lee Patterson, Michael Pinter-Koschell, Armin Pokorn, Heimo Puschnigg, John Russell, Henrik Sande, Chuang Se-Lien, Manfred Stern, Rowland Sutherland, Christian Tschinkel, Gernot Tutner, Mark Wastell, Andreas Weixler, Veryan Weston, Mia Zabelka, Martin Zrost.
Tickets
Individual days £5 advance, £6 on the door
Early bird Alpenglow 3-night passes (£12) are on sale now here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86589
See the soundandmusic website at http://www.soundandmusic.org/activities/events/a
Alpenglow is supported by Arts Council England and The Austrian Cultural Forum London
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