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2016-01-17 18:10:57
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2015-09-24 08:05:00
He makes sweet music out of shrieking lorries, screaming drills and even leaf-blowers. Now composer Iain Chambers is using the sound of Tower Bridge in a new work performed below the Thames in its cavernous Bascule ChambersThe bascule chambers of Tower Bridge are two of London’s great unknown spaces: the caverns that contain the counterweights of the bridge when it’s raised. Sitting beneath the water line of the Thames, they’re brick amphitheatres, steps rising ever more steeply from the ground like stalls for a theatre that’s never used.Until this week at least, when the Docklands Sinfonia brass ensemble and mezzo-soprano Catherine Carter will perform works specially composed for the space by Iain Chambers. “It’s got the acoustics of a small cathedral,” he says. “You feel like you’re travelling back to Arthur Conan Doyle’s era when you go down there.” Continue reading...
2014-10-10 09:38:53
Epic Persia composers competition -Winner announced + Performance, London Docklands Sinfonia announc
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