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2024-02-19 08:51:00
As it enters its second decade, Tectonics Glasgow is still blurring boundaries of new and experimental music
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Tectonics Glasgow festival, co-curators Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell, is entering is second decade with the 2024 festival on 4 and 5 May 2024. This year's festival continues to blur boundaries between musical genres with artists including vocal and movement artist Elaine Mitchener reflecting and responding to the circumstances which gave birth to the centuries-old hymn Amazing Grace and its contemporary resonances; Koichi Makigami, leader of a Japanese experimental rock band, performing with the legendary drummer Roger Turner; New York based vocalist Ka Baird combining their live performance within minimalistic, visceral composition and Japanese improviser, recorder player Eiko Yamada. Sarah-Jane Summers (fiddle) and Juhani Silvola (guitar) will interweave Scottish traditional music with Scandinavian influences alongside the BBC SSO strings; and Edinburgh-based artists Euan Currie and Marlo De Lara present a live improvisation drawing on voices, electronics and field recordings.Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in […]
2023-08-09 07:00:00
Everything falls under the law of change
Everything falls under the law of change, Like a dream, a phantom, a bubble, a shadow, Like dew or a flash of lightning; You should contemplate like this. - Conclusion of The Diamond SutraRecent listening and reading:Body Mandala, Jonathan Harvey - BBCSO, Ilan Volkov & Stefan SolyomMuse, Odalisque, Handmaiden - Rose SimpsonToru Takemitsu, Complete Works for Solo Piano - Paul CrossleyMonolithic Undertow, In Search of Sonic Oblivion - Harry SwordOn the Threshold of a Dream - Moody BluesMoroccan Atlas, The Trekking Guide - Alan PalmerZones, Drones & Atmospheres - Steve RoachAn Ugly Truth, Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination - Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang
2023-08-06 06:48:00
....towards a Pure Land
....towards a Pure Land for small string ensemble and orchestra by Jonathan Harvey describes, in the words of the composer, "a state of mind beyond suffering where there is no grasping... a model of the world to which we can aspire". In the photo above I am interviewing Jonathan Harvey in August 2010. When the interview was finished I drove down from his house on the Sussex Downs and ate alone in a restaurant in Lewes. During my meal I listened to the interview again on headphones, and as I listened it became apparent that something rather special had been captured. This was confirmed when the interview was subsequently broadcast on Future Radio: how many contemporary composers have made the news - not arts - sections of the Guardian and the Telegraph in the same week? Very sadly, the interview was made even more special by Jonathan's untimely death two years […]
2023-03-16 23:31:08
On March 11, the violist Lawrence Power and the Brussels Philharmonic, under the direction of Ilan Volkov, gave the world première of Cassandra Miller's I cannot love without trembling, as part of the Klarafestival in Belgium. A stream is temporarily...
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