Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics - Continents, Computers and Electronic Dreams
15:00
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Barbican, London
Programme
- Figures Outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the background(18 mins)
- Intrusions(10 mins)
- Gondwana(17 mins)
Performers
- Ilan Volkovconductor
About This Event
Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail鈥檚 non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.
Musical instruments probe the inner game of a film by Tarkovsky, plumbing memories and dreams in the UK premiere of Steven Daverson鈥檚 成人快手 co-commission. A computer-created bird erupts, singing, into the middle of a symphony orchestra in Misato Mochizuki鈥檚 work exploring the common thread between brains, instrusions and interactions. And Tristan Murail invokes Indian myths and electronic inspiration to rediscover 鈥� in ravishing orchestral sound 鈥� a whole continent that has been lost (or might never even have existed).
Sounds impossible? Well, that鈥檚 what this Total Immersion day is about. Murail鈥檚 1980 spectralist classic Gondwana helped define a new method of creating sound, and a compelling new way of listening to it. Now, Ilan Volkov, the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra, our composers and a team of virtuoso sound engineers follow his trail into that vast new world, and see where it鈥檚 taken us. You might be surprised鈥�
