Upset The Rhythm & SA Recordings present…
LEA BERTUCCI -
‘Acoustic Shadows’ release party!
RHODRI DAVIES
Tuesday 14 April
Ecology Pavilion, Mile End Park, off Haverfield Rd, Grove
Rd, Mile End, London, E3 5TW
7pm-10pm | £6 | https://link.dice.fm/Fhp4Z4xdd4
LEA BERTUCCI is
an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between
acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental
practice, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet), her work often incorporates
multi-channel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, extended instrumental
technique and tape collage. Deeply experimental, her work is unafraid to
subvert musical expectation. Her discography includes a number of solo and
collaborative releases on independent labels and last year she released the
critically acclaimed 'Metal Aether' on NNA tapes, as well as a commission for
percussion ensemble Tigue and a second edition of her much anticipated graphic
score book, 'The Tonebook', on Inpatient Press. She has performed extensively
across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Kitchen, PS1 MoMA, Blank
Forms, The Walker Museum, Roulette, ESS Chicago, Sound of Stockholm Festival,
and the Le Guess Who Festival. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition
and a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence.
To celebrate the release of Lea Bertucci’s forthcoming LP
and Sample Library 'Acoustic Shadows’, London label SA Recordings are teaming
up with Upset the Rhythm to host a record release party at The Ecology Pavilion
- a curved, glass-walled space set amid lakes and reed beds in Mile End Park.
’Acoustic Shadows I-III’ was a series of site-specific musical performances and
a sound installation that took place in the enclosed hollow body of the Deutzer
bridge in Koln, Germany, 2018. Spanning approximately 440 meters across the
Rhine river, the extraordinary acoustics and rich existing aural architecture
of this site became crucial components of the installation and musical
compositions. ’Acoustic Shadows’ the album utilises the “natural processing of
sound”, direct audio sources provided by Bertucci and percussionists, tram
noise from the bridge and voices of visitors to the installation coalesce with
the space’s own reverberations and resonances, creating two sonically opulent
compositions. “The LP is best listened to at loud volumes and on good speakers
in order to feel the mesmeric power of sound in space”, suggests Bertucci.
RHODRI DAVIES was
born in 1971 and lives in Swansea, South Wales. He plays harp, electric harp,
live-electronics and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp
installations. He has released four solo albums: Trem, Over Shadows, Wound
Response and An Air Swept Clean of All Distance. His regular groups include:
HEN OGLEDD, Cranc, a duo with John Butcher, The Sealed Knot, Common Objects and
a trio with John Tilbury and Michael Duch. He has worked with the following
artists: David Sylvian, Jenny Hval, Derek Bailey, Mark Fell, Kahimi Karie,
Laura Cannell, Lina Lapelyte, Sachiko M, Bill Orcutt, Jim O’Rourke, Christian
Marclay and David Toop. In 2008 he collaborated with the visual artist Gustav
Metzger on ‘Self-cancellation’, a large-scale audio-visual collaboration in
London and Glasgow. New pieces for solo harp have been composed for him by:
Eliane Radigue, Philip Corner, Phill Niblock, Ben Patterson, Christian Wolff,
Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi and Yasunao Tone. In 2012 he was the recipient of
the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists Award, since 2016 he is
a Chapter Associate Artist and in 2017 he received a Creative Wales Award.
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