Monday 3 March 2025, 7.30pm
An evening of live performance with discarded and unremarkable objects over four acts. This concert focuses on three practitioners exploring detritus, junk percussion and garbage. It will feature four sets: solos by Matt Atkins and Beibei Wang, a duo set by Rubbish Music, and a collaborative performance by Rubbish Music and Beibei Wang. In her solo work, Beibei Wang has expanded the instrumental palette available to classical percussion, notably in her use of water and found objects as instruments. In their trio performance Rubbish Music and Wang will explore the meeting point between live foley, experimental percussion and musique concrète transformation
Rubbish Music is the duo of Kate Carr and Iain Chambers. We use sound to investigate the journeys, transformations and impacts of our discarded objects. With a practice centred on improvisation and the amplification of objects we seek to imagine new possibilities for rubbish with our orchestra of dirty oven grills, plastic wrappers, old toilet plungers, wine bottles, nasal spray and cardboard boxes,
Matt Atkins is an improvising percussionist and sound/visual artist who uses electronics, objects and tape loops in his work. He has released music on labels such as Falt, Rusted Tone Recordings, Invisible City, Whitelab Recs, tsss tapes, Coherent States, Steep Gloss, Flaming Pines, Wabi Sabi Tapes, Dasa Tapes and Chocolate Monk, among others. Since 2006 he has run the label MRM recordings. In 2020 he began curating and presenting a show for CAMP radio called Auricular Shelter.
In 2022 he had his first solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, 'Eoliths' at London's Hundred Years Gallery.
With a background in both Classical and traditional Chinese percussion, Beibei Wang brings characteristic flair and dynamism to her performances, presenting repertoire as diverse as contemporary classical to free improvisation with equal elegance. Beibei has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as BBC Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra dell’ Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and lead the BBC Concert Orchestra on their 2018 China tour. She has appeared as soloist on some of the world’s most prestigious stages including the Barbican Centre, Elbphilharmonie, Grafenegg Festival, and Southbank Centre.
http://beibeimusic.com/
