New Mira Calix live project "Alexander's Annexe"
January 11, 2006
As a direct result of the groundbreaking collaboration between the London Sinfonietta and Warp Records, Mira Calix, Sarah Nicolls and David Sheppard have come together to form the core of a new performing and writing group. Their professional experience encompasses a wide area of music bringing different approaches to the creative possibilities that contemporary instrumental techniques, live-electronic manipulation and compiled electronic sound can bring. Once formed, the group initially found support from the Britten-Pears Programme with an invitation to undertake a residency. This allowed the musicians to work in true collaboration exploring and developing every element of new ideas together, with individual space to speak through their own instruments. The resulting work, ‘Push Door To Exit’, was premiered at the 2005 Aldeburgh Festival and then developed with the addition of interactive elements for audience, for the Ravello Festival 2005, Italy.
The success of this first work has resulted in a further invitation by Aldeburgh Productions for a creative residency, and performances in London and Birmingham early in the new year. They plan to make new pieces that address the tradition of musical boundaries and embrace the latest in new performance possibilities with a focus on the use of improvisation within fixed structures and the integration and interactive potential of digital visuals. A key collaborator with Alexander’s Annexe in 2006 will be the film and visual artists Flat-e.
:: links ::
http://www.miracalix.com
http://www.sarahnicolls.com
http://www.soundintermedia.co.uk
http://www.flat-e.com
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