The Roundhouse Presents CURTAIN CALL: LIVE PERFORMANCES, Aug. 6
By: Christina Mancuso Jun. 15, 2016
This August, Bloomberg Summer at the Roundhouse, the annual season dedicated to introducing new audiences to innovative culture, returns for its fifth consecutive year with Curtain Call by internationally renowned artist, architect and designer Ron Arad. Ron Arad's 360° floor-to-ceiling installation is made up of 5,600 silicon rods suspended and filling the Roundhouse's iconic main space. Alongside the installation the Roundhouse has announced seven unique music events, designed by an eclectic mix of artists to take place as one-off performances in and around the installation.
The incredible, eclectic line-up includes: Ivor Novello-nominated DJ and musician Matthew Herbert bringing 'Matthew Herbert presents NUDE' with support from Lail Arad; critically-acclaimed, Mercury Music Prize nominated Eska, blending folk, choral, soul, electronica and psychedelia; the return of the BBC Proms to the Roundhouse with music by British composer David Sawyer; Brixton born underground grime artist Gaika; electronic-music iconoclast Dan Deacon and the London Contemporary Orchestra featuring world premieres of two new commissions by composers Mica Levi and CHAINES.
Beginning the series on 10 August, contemporary classical and experimental agent provocateur Matthew Herbert will present A NUDE with Lail Arad. The brand new piece is based around his new album A Nude (The Perfect Body),comprised entirely of recordings of the sounds of a naked body recorded in a room over 24 hours. As support for Herbert, Lail Arad will perform songs from her new album The Onion with specially commissioned visuals by Flo Kohl & Ellis Pendens.
The 11 August sees GAIKA present CLUB 88. GAIKA will bring his blend of grime, dancehall, garage, hip hop and R&B in an imaginary and immersive club experience, inspired by Akira, Brixton and SECURITY. The night will be part installation, part live performance and part immersive performance piece.
The following night on 18 August, critically-acclaimed Eska will present a mix of reggae, jazz, soul, choral and electronica in a performance which brings to a close the incredible journey of her Mercury Music Prize-nominated debut album. Calling her presentation at the Roundhouse the album's 'fanfare' the gig will be an opportunity for audiences to be fully immersed in the music, both in sound with Eska's band and special guests and in vision, collaborating with the installation.
The BBC Proms return to the Roundhouse on 20 August with the renowned London Sinfonietta, led by conductor Andrew Gourlay, with a programme that takes its lead from Ligeti's iconic Ramifications. This embracing score, for two groups of spatially positioned strings, is heard alongside music by one of Ligeti's natural musical heirs, Georg Friedrich Haas, and other new pieces concerned with physical space. The concert will culminate in a major work from David Sawer that reflects the energy and physicality of dance.
On 24 August electronic music iconoclast Dan Deacon, world renowned for his live shows, will bring a brand new site-specific composition in which the audience will be the performers. Deacon is set to use the entire venue, both inside and out, as the stage with all audience in attendance contributing to the large scale performance event.
Bringing the live music performances to a close, the LCO will return to the Roundhouse to showcase two world premiere works - by CHAINES and Mica Levi - commissioned especially for Ron Arad's installation. The premieres will be performed alongside Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel and John Tavener's haunting Svyati for solo cello and choir exploring themes of spirituality, space and time.
Curtain Call will provide a canvas for films, live performance and audience interaction. Created by Arad in 2011 as a response to the Roundhouse's dramatic main space, the 5,600 silicon rods are suspended from an 18 metre diameter ring. This summer, Arad will again invite artists, musicians and friends to create unique work for the installation. New artists for 2016 include: Kutiman, Marshmallow Laser Feast and Universal Everything. Returning from 2011 will be:Babis Alexiadis; Mat Colishaw; Ori Gersht; Greenaway & Greenaway; Gabriel & Shira Klasmer; Christian Marclay; Javier Mariscal; SDNA and David Shrigley.
Throughout the month of August, the Roundhouse will become a daily destination where members of the public can enjoy the sunshine at North London's very own 'seaside' resort, Camden Beach, presented by Virgin Holidays. The Roundhouse will once again be filling its terrace with over 150 tonnes of the finest sand, deckchairs, beach huts, beach games, live music and some of the best food pop-ups in the city. Camden Beach presented by Virgin Holidays will be open to the public from Friday 29 July - Monday 29 August.
In 2016 the Roundhouse celebrates 50 years since opening as a groundbreaking arts venue and 10 years of using the arts to transform the lives of young people with its state-of-the-art creative centre. Bloomberg has supported the Roundhouse since 2003, and shares their commitment to supporting artistic innovation, ground breaking technologies and access for new audiences in the arts. In addition to the 'Bloomberg Summers' programme, Bloomberg also collaborates on the 'Bloomberg Broadcast Programme', a vocational skills-based training programme in broadcasting for young people who are not in employment, education or training.
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LIVE MUSIC EVENTS: Doors 7.30pm
Wednesday 10 August - Matthew Herbert Presents A Nude, plus Lail Arad, tickets £20
Thursday 11 August - GAIKA Presents Club 88, tickets £15
Thursday 18 August - Eska - tickets £16.50
Saturday 20 August - BBC Proms - tickets £6
Wednesday 24 August - Dan Deacon, tickets £20
Thursday 25 August - London Contemporary Orchestra, tickets £15
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2016/ron-arads-curtain-call/
GAIKA Presents Club 88 will go on sale on 17 June. The BBC Proms concert will go on-sale on 24 June.
INSTALLATION LISTINGS INFORMATION
Curtain Call: Saturday 6 - Monday 29 August, 12pm-8pm
(excludes Wednesdays and Thursdays)
Installation Press Preview: 8th August
Venue: Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
Box office: 0300 6789 222
Tickets: Adult standard (pre 6pm) £5, Adult standard (after 6pm and weekends) £7
Website: roundhouse.org.uk
Age guidance: Suitable for all ages
OPENING TIMES
Monday - Sunday Midday - 8pm
(excludes Wednesdays and Thursdays)
Last entry is 7pm
BBC Proms 2016
As the world's biggest classical music festival, the BBC Proms offers eight weeks of world-class music-making from a vast array of leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from the UK and around the world. Across more than 90 concerts - and a similar number of free events designed to extend and further enrich the audience's Proms experience - the festival aims to offer a summer of music that allows for the most diverse and exciting musical journeys. Over 120 years since it was founded, the driving factor in building a festival of this scale is to offer exceptional music-making at the lowest possible prices, continuing founder-conductor Henry Wood's original ambition of bringing the best classical music to the widest possible audience. With every Prom broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and many televised on the BBC, the Proms reaches far and beyond the Royal Albert Hall. Visit bbc.co.uk/proms for more information.
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is a composer and electronic musician. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels. Deacon is renowned for his live shows, where large-scale audience participation and interaction is often a major element of the performance. His first two albums as a solo artist were collections of both computer music and live recordings of ensemble pieces. With the success of his 2007 album Spiderman of the Rings, came an opportunity for the electronic-music iconoclast to increase the breadth and depth of his musical project. He moved from self-contained computer music to orchestral epics. His interactive live show, honed in DIY spaces, was taken to museums and concert halls. He frequently expanded his performances to include a horde of side musicians. His latest album, Gliss Riffer, an entirely self-produced record of almost all electronic sounds, is a return to Deacon's Spiderman of the Rings-era process after a string of large ensemble projects. It marks the first time Deacon replaced his digitally realized parts with analog synthesizers, giving him the opportunity to experiment with synthesizers in the same way he experimented with strings and wind instruments on America.
Eska
Vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist ESKA was declared to be "one of the most important singers in the UK right now" by legendary DJ and label owner Gilles Peterson. ESKA has built an incredible reputation in music industry inner circles as a writer and performer through her collaborations with legends like Grace Jones, Cinematic Orchestra, Zero 7 and Bobby McFerrin. Her highly anticipated solo debut album is where she crafted her own mesmerising, musical landscape - the kind of place where complicated time signatures couch radio-friendly songs, showcasing a spectrum of influences, self-produced using a vast sonic palette. ESKA's own unique sound found its way to a wider audience and enthusiastic critical reception, a series of Top 5 picks, Albums of the Week - and a nomination for the UK's Mercury Prize in 2015 for her self-titled debut album. Continually experimenting as a performer, ESKA's Curtain Call collaboration will include a string section alongside her 5-piece band.
GAIKA
GAIKA is a vocalist and producer from Brixton, London, who makes dancehall-tinged songs for the city. His influences include garage, grime, trip-hop, and grunge as well as reggae and dancehall. His music harks back to his Jamaican and Grenadian heritage, filtered through his birthplace Brixton. His music challenges the perceptions of what it means to be a young black male, charting hyper-masculinity alongside vulnerability. GAIKA recently collaborated with Kelela and transgender New York hip-hopper Mykki Blanco and in 2015 self-released mix tapes such as MACHINE and SECURITY, merging the personal and political.
Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is an artist, producer and writer whose range of innovative works extends from numerous albums to Ivor Novello nominated film scores as well as music for the theatre, Broadway, TV, games and radio. He has performed solo, as a DJ and with various musicians including his own 18 piece big band all round the world from the Sydney Opera House, to the Hollywood Bowl and created installations, plays and opera. Herbert has remixed iconic artists including Quincy Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, and Ennio Morricone and worked closely over a number of years with musical acts as diverse as Bjork and Dizzee Rascal. He has been sampled by J Dilla for Slum Village and another of his pieces (Cafe de Flore) inspired a movie by Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club). He has produced other artists and released some of these works alongside others on his own label - Accidental Records. He set up NX records with Goldsmiths University. Notable collaborators have included chef Heston Blumenthal, playwrights Caryl Churchill and Duncan Macmillan, theatre director Lyndsey Turner, musician Arto Lindsay and writer Will Self but he is most known for working with sound, turning ordinary sound in to electronic music. His most celebrated work ONE PIG followed the life of a pig from birth to plate and beyond. He is relaunching an online Museum of Sound and is the creative director of the new Radiophonic Workshop for the BBC. His debut play The Hush was performed at the National Theatre, his debut opera The Crackle at the Royal Opera House and he continues to work on projects for the screen as well as the stage. He is currently finishing his debut book called The Music.
London Contemporary Orchestra
Winner of the Ensemble category at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2015, the London Contemporary Orchestra has established itself as one of the UK's most innovative and respected ensembles - promoting the best new music and cross-arts collaborations to an increasingly wide audience. Formed in 2008 by co-Artistic Directors Robert Ames and Hugh Brunt, the LCO has collaborated with a distinguished array of composers, artists and brands, including Jonny Greenwood, Secret Cinema, Actress, Vivienne Westwood, members of Arcade Fire, United Visual Artists, Boiler Room, Goldfrapp, Ron Arad, Beck, Conrad Shawcross, Nike, Terry Riley and Foals. Recent highlights include sold-out performances at the Roundhouse, Southbank Centre and Barbican; the critically-acclaimed site-responsive series Imagined Occasions, and a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast. LCO's soundtrack output features The Master, Theeb, Slow West and Macbeth, and the LCO strings and choir feature prominently on Radiohead's recent album A Moon Shaped Pool. Edmund Finnis was appointed Composer-in-Association in April 2013.
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