Loudspeaker Orchestra

Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 2022/23

Our 2022/23 concert season will transport you via an eclectic programme of sound and audiovisual works, through an array of unique and compelling performance spaces across Greenwich, South-East London and beyond.  We invite all who listen and are curious about the medium of sound, to join us for this unique programme of events!

Booking is essential. There are a limited number of free tickets available to University of Greenwich students and staff.

Dates:

• 22 September 2022: Dynamical Systems and Natural Environments, St John’s Waterloo, London
• 26 October 2022: Reconfiguring the Landscape, Greenwich Market
• 18-20 November 2022: SOUND/IMAGE 22, University of Greenwich
• 14 December 2022: Volstarfel, The Amersham Arms, London
• 25 January 2023: CeReNeM, St Alfege Church, Greenwich
• 25 February 2023: Interrogating the Noise: Gallery Sound, Stephen Lawrence Gallery
• 17 March 2023: Climate Words, Blackheath Halls, Blackheath
• 17 May 2023: Resonant Chamber, Brunel Museum, Rotherhithe
• 21 June 2023: Sonic Habitats, Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Canary Wharf
• 15 July 2023: Disruptive Frequencies, Kings Place, London

22 September 2022: Simon Knighton curates: Dynamical Systems and Natural Environments 

with nonclassical

Venue: St John’s Waterloo, 73 Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8TY

Time:  7.30pm

Entry:  £12 advance, £8 concessions, £15 on the door

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https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/events/2022/7/18/simon-knighton-curates-dynamical-systems-and-natural-environments

A pendulum swings, water flows, the air particles around us move. You may not know it, but these are all examples of dynamical systems – mathematical processes of change which surround us in everyday life. But what happens when you take these patterns and translate them into sound? Nonclassical Associate Composer Simon Knighton explores this question with a curated programme of music and sound art inspired by the intersection of nature, maths and sound.

nonclassical is a music promoter, record label and events producer presenting new classical, experimental and electronic music. Crossing genre and defying convention, nonclassical develops, produces and promotes innovative music, supporting emerging artists and bringing new music to new audiences.

26 October 2022: Reconfiguring the Landscape

with NMH Oslo and IRCAM Paris

Venue: Greenwich Market, London, SE10 9HZ

Time: 7pm

Entry: £5, booking is required

“Reconfiguring the Landscape” is an international collaborative partnership which investigates how 3-D electroacoustic composition and sound-art can evoke and provoke a new awareness of our outdoor environment via four complementary strands - Layering, Enhancing, Relocating, Modifying.

Led by Prof. Natasha Barrett (Norwegian Music Academy, Oslo) in partnership with Dr. Nadine Shchütz (ETH Zurich, IRCAM Paris) and Dr. Andrew Knight-Hill (SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre, University of Greenwich) the project explores the creative potentials of working with technology which can capture, analyse and synthesise 3-D sound spaces.

Higher-order ambisonics offers access to the precision of our spatial hearing, such that electroacoustic composition now has the potential to address, and be enriched by, the full dimensionality of the sonic landscape.

14 December 2022: Volstarfel

Venue: The Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Rd, London, SE14 6TY

Time: 7pm

Entry: £5, booking is required

[sobbing and moaning]

An evening of experimental live sets and new audio-visual collaborations, including Territorial Gobbing, 0jon & Jim Hobbs, Richard Whitby and more.

https://namcom.bandcamp.com/track/heinous-whiner-remix

25 January 2022: CeReNeM

with University of Huddersfield 

Venue: St Alfege Church, Greenwich Church St, London, SE10 9BJ

Time: 7pm

Entry: £5, booking is required

Join us for an evening of music with the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University Huddersfield. Featuring works by Aaron Cassidy, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Eddie Dobson, David Vélez, Geoff Cox, Sam Gillies and more.

CeReNeM is a community of world-leading artists and scholars who bring innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives to research in composition, performance, sonic arts and multimedia, music technology, improvisation, analysis, and new music studies.

https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/

25 February: Interrogating the Noise: Gallery Sound

Venue: Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich

Time: 7pm

Entry: £5, booking is required

A cacophony of rhythmic stutters polarising with brutal deep bass – a performance / installation and interrogation of the artists and gallery space will take place. The gallery is White and the sound is Black corroding noise from the tapestry of Dirty Electronics and abrasive harsh noise, and penetrating glitches of Dushume.

Dushume and Dirty Electronics collaborate and perform with hardware mash-ups and speculative sound circuits, creating work on the fluid Studio Bench: a space where making circuits and performance co-exist. Their “makes” results in a series of short episodic absurd pieces that explores DIYness and Noise.

The performance forms part of the Noise III Exhibition running from the 25 February - 26 March 2023 in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.

https://www.dirtyelectronics.org/

https://www.dushume.co.uk/

17 March 2023: Climate Words

with Trinity Laban Conservatoire

Venue: Blackheath Halls

Time: 6pm

A concert of spoken word-derived works based on interviews and aural histories connected to climate issues, fusing Trinity Laban's Contemporary Music Group and the University of Greenwich Loudspeaker Orchestra. Join us to hear the world premiere of new works by Trinity Laban Composition students for the Daryl Runswick Competition.

This unique collaboration between the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre at the University of Greenwich and our neighbours at Trinity Laban provides students a unique opportunity to compose for ensemble and immersive audio system. These new compositions have been developed over the past 9 months part of our ongoing collaboration and partnership.

17 May 2023: Resonant Chamber

with Aproxima Arts

Venue: Brunel Museum

Time: 7pm

Entry: £5, booking is required

Deep underground where the water crosses land, we enter a subterranean space of brick, concrete and iron. This industrial artefact, he world's first caisson, offers an echo of labours, of sweat and of ambition stands as a silent monument, a reverberant void.

Resonant Chamber explores the power of combining architecture, live performance and recorded sound to create immersive site-specific experiences. Brunel’s tunnel chamber will be transformed into an immersive listening space featuring the premiere of a new work by Bede Williams and Andrew Knight-Hill for trumpet, electronics and the Brunel Caisson; a performance of the music from critically acclaimed ‘Over Lunan’ - composed by Andrew Knight-Hill as an Aproxima Arts commission for the 2021 immersive beach performance in Arbroath (for marimba, conch shell, choir and electronic sound); and a percussion and electronics performance by Second Citizen, Angus Farquhar (creative director Aproxima Arts, ex-NVA, ex-Test Dept.) and Cameron Sinclair (Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philarmonia, Glyndebourne Orchestra).

https://aproxima.co.uk/over-lunan

https://aproxima.co.uk/secondcitizen

https://thewallacecollection.world/portfolio/bede-williams-biog/

https://www.ahillav.co.uk/

21 June 2023: Sonic Habitats

with Touch

Venue: Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Crossrail Place, London E14 5AB

Time: 7pm

Entry: Free, however booking is required.

An evening with Touch, listening to the IKO loudspeaker amongst exotics plants in the Roof Garden’s amphitheatre. Join sound artist Bethan Kellough as we follow motions and contours of winds, waves and other atmospheric and geological processes, responding to their vibrancy, the spaces they reveal, and the moments we can spend immersed in timescales that expand beyond our lived experience.

Since 1982 Touch has been a label that embraces experimental electronic music, and has created audio-visual productions and live events across the world. Artists include Philip Jeck, Phill Niblock, Claire M Singer, Chris Watson, Jana Winderen and many more.

https://touch-music.co.uk/

Sound artist Bethan Kellough weaves together musical and environmental sound-worlds to create immersive installations, performances and compositions. Her album Aven (Touch, 2016) has been described as “a film you watch with your ears” (Tiny Mix Tapes), “earthy and fantastical” (Norman Records) and “sometimes magical and sometimes terrifying” (Rolling Stone).

15 July 2023: Disruptive Frequencies

with nonclassical

Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

Time: 7.30pm

Entry: £7.50-£15.00

Nonclassical presents the launch party for “Disruptive Frequencies” release. An evening of experimental sounds by Black and South Asian artists NikNak, Dhangsha, Nikki Sheth, Poulomi Desai, Gary Stewart and Dushume.

This is a collective celebration of the music produced and created as part of the Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound project, which will be released on Vinyl through Nonclassical.

About Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound:

This AHRC funded project aims to challenge institutional whiteness in experimental sound practice by investigating the creative identities of contemporary Black and South Asian composers working in the UK.