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Electronica III

with the BBC Concert Orchestra

Thursday 09 June 2011, 7.30pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Centre), South Bank Centre Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood conductor
Jarvis Cocker presenter

Programme includes:
Graham Fitkin K1
Pulp arr. Anne Dudley This is Hard Core
Javier Álvarez Overture & Pyramid
Nico Muhly Seeing is Believing
Patrick Nunn Fata Morgana for electric cello, orchestra & live electronics
Aphex Twin arr. Patrick Nunn Nannou
Eduardo Miranda Sacra Conversazione
Andrew Poppy Revolution No. 8: Airport for Joseph Beuys
Edward Williams Suite from Life on Earth

Hearing is believing – Jarvis is your host, and plays Pulp’s This Is Hard Core with the BBC Concert Orchestra…

Hearing is an illusion – Andrew Poppy’s Revolution No. 8: Airport for Joseph Beuys wires the orchestra inside a box of electric delights designed to scatter sound to the outer limits. Patrick Nunn connects an electric cello into shape shifting electronics that manipulate instrumental sounds into shimmering reflections in his Fata Morgana and gives Aphex Twin's Nannou an acoustic-twist. From South America, Eduardo Miranda and Javier Álvarez demonstrate the alchemy of transmuting acoustic tones into electric gold…

Hearing is not believing what you see – Graham Fitkin’s Kaplan reminds us of the menacing antihero of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller North By Northwest, a man who definitely doesn’t want you to know who he is. Also hiding in the acoustic undergrowth, Edward Williams’ Suite from Life on Earth, music conceived for David Attenborough’s Life on Earth…

And Seeing is Believing: the title of young New York superstar composer Nico Muhly’s concerto for electric six-string violin and orchestra – electronica evoking celestial clouds and telescopic, foraging insects….

How to get there
- By tube
  - Waterloo (Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee and Waterloo and City lines). Embankment (Circle and District lines).
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- 1. At 9:55pm on 16 Jun 2011, Don Eaglethorpe wrote:
  Excellent evening. Real treat – 3 hours of first-rate music with such great orchestra and composers for only 10 pounds. I enjoyed every bit of it, especially Dudley’s arrangement of Pulp’s This is Hardcore with Jarvis Cocker singing and Nunn’s live electronic processing of the orchestral sounds for his Fata Morgana. I was taken by Miranda’s intriguing computer-generated vocals cleverly combined with strings and percussion in his Conversazione – never heard anything like it before!
  
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- 2. At 10:26am on 08 Jul 2011, alanjk wrote:
  What a mind-bending concert! I was also fascinated by Miranda's Sacra Converzione...it's hard to find something to compare it to. Of all the pieces in the concert it was the most "new"/"original". Muhly's piece was interesting too - if a little long. The Dudley arrangement of this is Hardcore so nearly hit the mark - it could've Jarvis as Shirley Bassey, but he kept pulling the mic at the key moments... Fitkin's K1 was just a fabulous toe-tapping experience, if you had 3 feet and a perfect sense of bizarre rhythm. I loved it. On the downside the Life on Earth suite was just an opportunity for me to read the program more fully, yawn. And the Aphex Twin was overhyped. This led to an over-long concert but one which I'm so glad I managed to get a ticket for. Bravo BBCO!
  
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