Part of This is Tuesday at Kings Place
Curated by Society for the Promotion of New Music www.spnm.org.uk
Music meets machinery in EWA7. This concert-length work by Annie Gosfield melds sampled machine noise with percussion played on found metal and effected electric guitar. The piece was originally composed for a site–specific performance in a factory in Nuremberg, Germany. The factory’s name? EWA7. Gosfield has been hailed as ‘a star of the downtown scene’ by the New Yorker magazine. Her compositions often explore the inherent beauty of non-musical sounds. Here, driving rhythms suggest shifting industrial environments, from the delicate whir of motors to the big beat of a driving human machine. It’s a startling environment: an insistent, industrial new music.
The night theme continues with a performance from Halal Kebab Hut – Agorithmic Junkestra. HKH use a vast array of quite extraordinary objects not normally associated with such a ‘serious’ task as music-making. Meanwhile, Music Orbit introduce emerging artists and two films explore poetic destruction in the mechanical world: Fresh Kills, directed by Gordon Matta-Clark and Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York' , directed by Robert Breer.
‘All electric, all noisy, but all symphonic and done by one of downtown's suavest musical thinkers.’ – Village Voice on Annie Gosfield
HOMAGE TO JEAN TINGUELY'S HOMAGE TO NEW YORK
Robert Breer, USA, 1968, 10min, sound
Measuring 27 by 30 feet and made entirely out of scrap metal from a Newark dump, Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York' was a self destroying sculpture that obliterated itself in MoMA's Sculpture Garden over the course of half an hour. Made during the work's construction and destruction, Breer's film uses superimposition to create a vivid kinetic portrait of its simultaneous life and death.
FRESH KILL
Gordon Matta-Clark, USA, 1972, 13min, sound
A brutal battle to the death in which renegade artist Gordon Matta-Clark's truck, Herman Meydag is crippled and destroyed by two bulldozers at the Fresh Kills garbage dump on Staten Island, New York.
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Date: Tuesday 9 December
Time: 20:00
Venue: Hall Two
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