BBC Radio 3 Open Ear: EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, We Spoke & Gwen Rouger LSO St Luke's, London

Simon Løffler's b presents to its audience an immediate question: where are the instruments? Three players sit on straight-backed chairs, joined by a daisy-chain of cables and guitar stomp boxes. The score directs a choreography of foot switching, demanding extraordinary pedal dexterity. Sounds...

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Published inTempo Vol. 72; no. 286; pp. 81 - 82
Main Author Barry, Robert
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.10.2018
Subjects
Barker, Clive (1952- )
FIRST PERFORMANCES
Kawalerowicz, Jerzy
Keyboards
Live performance
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Sexton, Anne
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:Simon Løffler's b presents to its audience an immediate question: where are the instruments? Three players sit on straight-backed chairs, joined by a daisy-chain of cables and guitar stomp boxes. The score directs a choreography of foot switching, demanding extraordinary pedal dexterity. Sounds pass down the line, modulated by distortion and equaliser effects, before bursting out of the PA in a series of abrupt electrical barks. But at the other end of the line there is nothing but an unplugged jack, held aloft, inserted nowhere but the open air.
ISSN:0040-2982
1478-2286
DOI:10.1017/S0040298218000426