Friday 26 April 2024, 7.30pm
Excellent double-bill featuring legendary Argentinian electro-acoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra alongside Langham Research Centre, who make experimental music using resources and ideas that were previously considered obsolete. Extremely rare opportunity to see Beatriz Ferreyra live in London for the first time since 2020.
Ferreyra will be performing live with Cafe OTO’s multi-speaker setup, whilst LRC showcase their combinations of location recordings and electronic sounds, including analogue devices and a variety of sound-making objects.
The concert celebrates the launch of EP Tape Reworks, Vol. 2 (Nonclassical 2024, 7” and DL), featuring remixes by Ferreyra and Kara-Lis Coverdale. Ferreyra’s ‘Nachholbedürfnis’ is her first ever remix, whilst Coverdale’s ‘Movable Fields’ evokes the feel of a field recording from a strange planet. These works join LRC’s three previous releases on Nonclassical, which include Tape Reworks, Vol. 1, featuring remixes by the acclaimed Jim O’Rourke and Group A. The new 7” will be available at the discounted price of £8 for the concert, alongside tapes, vinyl, and CD copies of LRC’s other releases.
Langham Research Centre came together in 2003 with the purpose of using a studio as their instrument: a studio with microphones and also, crucially, several ¼” tape machines. From the start they were interested in manipulating sound on tape and on focusing on one sound source, or a small number of sounds.
Their inspiration and enthusiasm are driven by the soundworlds produced by maverick composers working in the middle of the 20th century. Like an early music group’s use of historic instruments, LRC continue to work with obsolete equipment including tape recorders, gramophone cartridges and sine wave oscillators, to perform authentic versions of 20th century classic electronic repertoire by John Cage, Alvin Lucier and others.
https://langhamresearchcentre.bandcamp.com/
A member of the original Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Beatriz Ferreyra moved from her native Argentina to study with Nadia Boulanger and Edgardo Cantón in Paris in 1962. Ferreyra contributed to Pierre Schaeffer’s book ‘Traité des Objets Musicaux’ (1966), collaborated on the realisation of Schaeffer’s ‘Solfège de l’Objet Sonore’ (1967), and went on to take composition lessons with Earl Brown and György Ligeti at Darmstadt. As an independent composer, Ferreyra has received major international commissions, also composing for film and ballet. In 2014 she was elected as an Honorary Member of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music.
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