Sunday 15 January 2023, 8pm
FR/UK U! presents an Anglo/French programme of four composers of experimental electronic music for voice and 8 channels. The composers involved are the French ,Karl Szucka award-winning composer, Frederic Acquaviva & Denis Dufour, and two UK, the titan pioneer of electronica Trevor Wishart, and Lore Lixenberg. All the pieces in the programme use the voice of Loré Lixenberg.
With support from:
SUNDAY 15 JANUARY
1. Loré Lixenberg - theVoicePartyOperaBotFarm[myMuseIsMyFury] (2021), 54'
with the voice of Loré Lixenberg, bots and electronics
2. Denis Dufour - Accordéon (2012), 3'24" + Missa Pro Pueris, 45'
with the voice of Loré Lixenberg and fixed electronics
Lore Lixenberg has evolved a practice based on voice, that has three major features. Firstly, exploring extended vocal techniques and hyper-extensions of the voice (‘BIRD’ and ‘THE BIRD STUDIES’, pieces, that explore language and syntax through birdsong) Secondly, drawing on socially engaged practices (PRET A CHANTER, THE VOICE PARTY) and thirdly, exploring digital technologies and apps for their operatic dramatic potential creating a new form - the APP-ERA, (SINGLR, VOXCOIN, IDENTITY THEFT). Incorporating comedy into her compositions applying bel canto singing into physical theatre, comedy and free-improvisation she works with Simon Munnery, Richard Thomas, Stewart Lee and Complicite (McBurney). She has performed internationally on concert platforms and galleries, opera houses, in operas and has collaborated on experimental installations and vocal performances with experimental composers visual and sound artists like Acquaviva, STELARC, Bruce Mclean, ORLAN, Georgina Starr, Imogen Sidworthy and David Toop. Her stuff has been shown at at The Hamburger Bahnhof , Galerie Nord Berlin, Ikon Gallery UK, The Armory NY, Emily Harvey Foundation NY among others. She published an artist book ‚Memory Maps’, monographic CD ‘The afternoon of a phone’ (£@B). She started THE VOICE PARTY standing in British election of 2019 and will satnd again in 2024. Her vinyl release NANCARROW KARAOKE, a record of Nancarrow piano rolls she transcribed for her own voice multi-tracked is on the De Player label.
Denis Dufour is an instrumental and electroacoustic composer, teacher, researcher, organiser of concerts and festivals, adviser. He is also the founder of instrumental ensembles and composition classes in various cities, which stimulate musical lives in France and abroad.
