
DING, DONG, DARLING! - joy reclaimed!
Tom Service presents premieres from Donaueschinger Music Days of works by Franck Bedrossian and Sara Glojnaric plus Leevi Räsänen's 'the two childhoods', from Nordic Music Days.
Tom Service presents the latest new music in performance including premieres from the recent Donaueschinger and Nordic Music Days. From Donaueschinger comes Franck Bedrossian's Feu sur moi for 24-part choir and electronics, a hair-raising descent into Hell to a text by Arthur Rimbaud. Also from this major German festival, we have Sara Glojnaric's glitteringly subversive DING, DONG, DARLING! for orchestra and fixed media, “A piece about queer joy. … about chasing that moment of joy, hope, and a sense of lightness triggered by another person’s display of unabashed queer joy … It challenges the dominant narrative that being queer is exclusively rooted in pain or trauma and instead recognizes the resilience, resistance, and creativity of LGBTQ+ people.... it's a work filled with references and memories, embracing non normativity, pathos, hyper-pop, camp, glitter, youth, and sexuality in all its aspects and, most importantly, reclaiming joy as an integral part of my artistic practice”.
And, from Glasgow's Nordic Music Days, the Chaos Quartet plays Leevi Räsänen's 'the two childhoods.' A work which emerges from the Finnish composer's "Personal need to heal: "Those who have experienced school violence know the profound and long-term consequences of when just simple words become weapons. Having thought for a long time, that the bullying I experienced during my childhood would’ve made me stronger … I realized that I had survived it by repressing almost all memories altogether. This piece aims to address that memory-mush … "
And, in a show packed with thoroughbreds, comes Thomas van Dun's Rocailles de l'après vie.., the work which won the prestigious International Rostrum of Composers prize for composers under 30 in the Netherlands. The rocailles referring to those ornamental flourishes and flurries that define the gorgeous excesses of rococo churches. “The purpose of these visual stimuli is to delight people”, Thomas says: “In Rocailles de l’après-vie… these become intertwined flutters and runs...Everything moves and through this overstimulation I want to put the listener in a state of trance.”
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Jasper Vanpaemel
ABC for three small slideflutes
Performer: Tomma Wessel. Performer: Ines Rasbach. Performer: Katelijne Lanneau. -
Thomas van Dun
Rocailles de l'après vie
Ensemble: Asko|Schönberg. Conductor: Clark Rundell. -
Šarūnas Nakas
Cenotaph
Performer: Mira Benjamin. Performer: Anton Lukoszevieze. Performer: Kerry Young. -
Diane Barbé
Le grand jardin de coupigny
Performer: Diane Barbé.- musiques tourbes.
- forms of minutiae.
- 5.
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Franck Bedrossian
Feu sur moi for 24-part choir and electronics
Performer: Maurice Oeser. Performer: Thomas Hummel. Performer: Daniel Miska. Ensemble: SWR Experimentalstudio. Conductor: Yuval Weinberg. -
Leevi Räsänen
The Two Childhoods
Ensemble: Chaos Quartet. -
Sara Glojnarić
DING, DONG, DARLING! for orchestra and fixed media
Orchestra: SWR Symphonieorchester. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni. -
Feedback Orchestra
8 electric guitars and feedback
Ensemble: Feedback Orchestra.- Live at Zwingli-Kirche.
- Edition Telemark / MirrorWorldMusic.
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Iain Chambers
Slithering Fatberg
Performer: Iain Chambers.- The Persistence of Sound Collection.
- Persistence of Sound.
- 77.
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Pancrace
Melville
Ensemble: Pancrace.- Pancrace – Papotier.
- Penultimate Press.
- 6.
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Joseph Phibbs
Night Paths
Performer: Huw Wiggin. Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
Broadcast
- Sat 9 Nov 2024 22:30ѿý Radio 3