Monday 10 January 2022, 8pm
Delighted to welcome back vocalist Loré Lixenberg, presenting her NANCARROWKARAOKE project of vocal interpretations of US composer, Conlon Nancarrow's work.
"The decision to transcribe and vocalise the player piano rolls of Nancarrow was obvious,ridiculous, audacious, scary and irresistible in equal measure, and the project began in 2015...
There are so many vocal influences in the music of Nancarrow that flicker and flitter in and out of focus as the music plays out its complex structure. The piano rolls have often been transcribed for various ensembles such as ‘Bang on a Can All Stars’ and London Sinfonietta, but have never been performed by voices...
When you perform the music of any composer you are trying on their subjectivity. In the case of Nancarrow, it felt as though I was also entering the subjectivity of the player piano and I was attracted to the impossibility of it." – Loré Lixenberg
PROGRAMME
No 31
No 2
No 3c
No 6
No 20
No 14,
No 26
No 33
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.
