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Choral composition: Voice Images
Swiss Church London
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OICE IMAGES
Choral composition by artist Louisa Fairclough and composer Richard Glover
Performed by the Dieci Voices
Friday 24 November, 9pm-12am
Admission free
You are warmly invited to the debut performance of a new choral composition by Bristol-based artist Louisa Fairclough and Birmingham-based composer Richard Glover. Devised for an ensemble of six singers, it incorporates three distinct compositions or ‘voice-images’; sonic representations of delirium. Each ‘voice-image’ is designed to be modular — in conversation harmonically and timbrally with one another — and plays with a different cluster of words which sound alike yet shift in meaning with the change of a vowel or consonant. During the performance up to three compositions will occur simultaneously: from the incisive sonority of two singers performing a duet to the polyphonic harmonies of several compositions occurring at one time. The intensity and audible perceptibility of these pieces will transform throughout, altered by the singers’ movement and proximity to each other within the space. For further information please visit the website or Facebook event.
VOICE IMAGES is part of Being and Appearing; a programme of contemporary art curated for the Swiss Church in London by Kirsty White - beingandappearing.org.uk.
Kindly supported by the Swiss Church in London, University of Wolverhampton and Arts Council England.
Image: A Gloucester Cathedral chorister sings for Absolute Pitch by Louisa Fairclough & Richard Glover commissioned by Whitstable Biennale 2014. Photo by Milo Newman.
VOICE IMAGES
Choral composition by artist Louisa Fairclough and composer Richard Glover
Performed by the Dieci Voices
Friday 24 November, 9pm-12am
Admission free
You are warmly invited to the debut performance of a new choral composition by Bristol-based artist Louisa Fairclough and Birmingham-based composer Richard Glover. Devised for an ensemble of six singers, it incorporates three distinct compositions or ‘voice-images’; sonic representations of delirium. Each ‘voice-image’ is designed to be modular — in conversation harmonically and timbrally with one another — and plays with a different cluster of words which sound alike yet shift in meaning with the change of a vowel or consonant. During the performance up to three compositions will occur simultaneously: from the incisive sonority of two singers performing a duet to the polyphonic harmonies of several compositions occurring at one time. The intensity and audible perceptibility of these pieces will transform throughout, altered by the singers’ movement and proximity to each other within the space. For further information please visit the website or Facebook event.
VOICE IMAGES is part of Being and Appearing; a programme of contemporary art curated for the Swiss Church in London by Kirsty White - beingandappearing.org.uk.
Kindly supported by the Swiss Church in London, University of Wolverhampton and Arts Council England.
Image: A Gloucester Cathedral chorister sings for Absolute Pitch by Louisa Fairclough & Richard Glover commissioned by Whitstable Biennale 2014. Photo by Milo Newman.
