840 is a series of Experimental Music events begun in 2014, each year devoted to performances of Music which explores new ways of making Music with a particular instrument. This year, as part of the Waterloo Festival last month, the focus was on new Music for piano and this week's H&N features pianist Zubin Kanga (b19720 who, in conversation with Ivan Hewett, introduces his performance of works by Laurence Crane (b1961), Tim Parkinson (b1973), Bryn Harrison (b1969), Nicholas Peters (b1984), Sergei Zagny (b1960), Kate Moore (b1979), Alex Nikiporenko (b1990), Andrew Hamilton (b1977) and by Kanga himself.
I wouldn't've thought that this was "natural" Hewett territory, but the programme looks exactly the sort of thing that H&N should be focussing upon. (I saw Kanga at last year's Huddersfield Festival, where he performed the premiere of a work for Piano with laptop, and after he took his bow, he walked off stage, still attached to the laptop which began to follow him - fortunately he realized what was happening before the potential Newtonian moment when Apple hit ground. Sadly that's all I can remember about the piece itself, beyond vague memories that it seemed more of a manual of what might be done in a work rather than a composition of such possibilities.)
Speaking of Huddersfield, the programme also includes another selection of archive highlights from the forty years of the Festival. Andrew Kurowski, in conversation with Robert Worby introduces Xenakis' Taurhiphanie , and Luigi Nono's La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura performed by Irvine Arditti and André Richard from the 1995 Festival (the very first I ever attended) - I hope the whole work is broadcast, rather than just "extracts".
Looks a good 'un!
I wouldn't've thought that this was "natural" Hewett territory, but the programme looks exactly the sort of thing that H&N should be focussing upon. (I saw Kanga at last year's Huddersfield Festival, where he performed the premiere of a work for Piano with laptop, and after he took his bow, he walked off stage, still attached to the laptop which began to follow him - fortunately he realized what was happening before the potential Newtonian moment when Apple hit ground. Sadly that's all I can remember about the piece itself, beyond vague memories that it seemed more of a manual of what might be done in a work rather than a composition of such possibilities.)
Speaking of Huddersfield, the programme also includes another selection of archive highlights from the forty years of the Festival. Andrew Kurowski, in conversation with Robert Worby introduces Xenakis' Taurhiphanie , and Luigi Nono's La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura performed by Irvine Arditti and André Richard from the 1995 Festival (the very first I ever attended) - I hope the whole work is broadcast, rather than just "extracts".
Looks a good 'un!
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