Richard Barrett CONSTRUCTION

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  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 9173

    Richard Barrett CONSTRUCTION

    did any one listen to this ......

    a live show from Huddersfield Town Hall as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011. The programme features the world premiere of a major new work by Richard Barrett - Construction - a two-hour piece which explores ideas about urban living, both through promised utopias and harsh realities. The performers are ELISION with vocalists Deborah Kayser, Ute Wassermann and Carl Rosman, conducted by Eugene Ughetti.
    ?

    it displaced Jazz Library from the schedule but a two hour forty minute broadcast of live contemporary muisc is to be admired .... except that i could not manage more than five minutes of the sounds presented ... mea culpa
    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
  • Quarky
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 2660

    #2
    Yes, I listened - and have been scanning the H&N board for some remarks on the work.

    Well I listened to the end (twice). There was nothing in the work that turned me away from it, but I hesitate to take a viewpoint on a work that long.
    Last edited by Quarky; 21-11-11, 17:47. Reason: "There" not--THere-- - sorry but these posts are the only chance I get to write as the mood takes me

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      #3
      Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
      did any one listen to this ......



      ?
      Sure did, and as at least one other has observed, a lot that relates closely to 'free jazz' in it, (certainly more so than John Tilbury's Samuel Beckett performances which featured on the Jazz on 3 a few years ago). I've listened to it twice now (at the time of the broadcast via FM, and last night to the 320kbps AAC-LC offering via the iPlayer. Those who attended will have a better idea of how good a job the broadcast audio engineers did but it sounded very good to me.

      Oh, and as SMP pointed out in her introduction to the performance, it's "CONSTRUCTION", not "Construction". As is so often the case the online schedule compilers got that wrong too. There again, as Mr. Barrett only finished writing it a few days ago, perhaps they were in no position to be aware of such subtleties.
      Last edited by Bryn; 21-11-11, 11:03. Reason: Removal of redundant "the"

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      • aka Calum Da Jazbo
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 9173

        #4
        so amended ...
        According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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        • Ian Thumwood
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          • Dec 2010
          • 4183

          #5
          I tuned in hoping to hear Jazz Library and CONSTRUCTION must have been what I heard instead. Must admit, I hated it and turned over after a couple of minutes and played a James Carter CD instead as I drove hoime from Andover.

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          • Serial_Apologist
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            • Dec 2010
            • 37690

            #6
            Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View Post
            I tuned in hoping to hear Jazz Library and CONSTRUCTION must have been what I heard instead. Must admit, I hated it and turned over after a couple of minutes and played a James Carter CD instead as I drove hoime from Andover.
            Richard Barrett's music certainly presents challenges in getting into. I thought the first couple of minutes were the most accessible part of the work! - there was even a beatbox passage. None of the detail has stayed with me; on the other hand I was kept captivated by the piece for its entire duration: not a boring moment - unlike in some of the works linked in the "50 Years of Minimalism" programme on earlier on Saturday evening. Anyone else listen to that? No? Not surprised - it doesn't seem to have warranted a thread, even. What a load of... all the spokesmen (sic) for the genre spoke at top speed so one could not absorb points they were apparently making, as if coked up... and talk about DEFENSIVE positions being taken, sheeeesh - like, this music is abstraction, like the Abstract Expressionists returning to basics (??); like, now the message about minimalism has now been fully taken on board by serious critics and composers, we're no longer forced to undergo the miseries (or some such) of modernism. The programme was as full of self-congratulatory self-justifying selfrighteousness as Stockhausen!

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              #7
              I expect most of the other Tunbridge Wells comments re. the minimalist programme were aired the first time it was broadcast.

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              • hackneyvi

                #8
                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                I expect most of the other Tunbridge Wells comments re. the minimalist programme were aired the first time it was broadcast.
                I wasn't 'disgusted' but listening to the later part of the programme, I did think both the speakers and the music were trite; exemplified by Nico Mulhy and the soup which was ladelled onto the soundtrack under Michael Nyman's closing speech. It doesn't seem to me to be music of any greater depth than that of The New Seekers but The New Seekers at least have brevity to mitigate other shortcomings.

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                • Alison
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 6459

                  #9
                  I was so disappointed I missed the first of twenty minutes of CONSTRUCTION.

                  It sounded a feast for the ear and consistently engaging in the manner described by SA.

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    #10
                    It's on the iPlayer in HD Sound, Alison.

                    PM on its way.

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                    • John Skelton

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Alison View Post
                      I was so disappointed I missed the first of twenty minutes of CONSTRUCTION.

                      It sounded a feast for the ear and consistently engaging in the manner described by SA.


                      A feast for the ear and the heart and the mind.

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                      • handsomefortune

                        #12
                        CONSTRUCTION was a bit of a shock to any listeners staying up, expecting to listen to alyn shipton's 'jazz library'.

                        however, i thought the saturday night performance went very well with the recent brian ferneyhough stuff; the thread about jesus christ's 4.33; and the woman who sang about germs and wet suits + acoustic guitar....respectively

                        having adjusted to the change of schedule it went down well in this house, but clashed a bit with next doors tv. so, i might just catch it again on iplayer.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37690

                          #13
                          Originally posted by handsomefortune View Post
                          the thread about jesus christ's 4.33;
                          Thinking outside the cage?

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                          • Quarky
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 2660

                            #14
                            Originally posted by handsomefortune View Post
                            CONSTRUCTION was a bit of a shock to any listeners staying up, expecting to listen to alyn shipton's 'jazz library'. .
                            Out of respect for those Jazzophiles, probably the majority, that didn't like this music, and not wishing to add insult to injury, perhaps French Frank would be kind enough to move this thread to Hear and Now Board.

                            However I am beginning to feel extremely positive about CONSTRUCTION, and must listen some more times before it disappears from iPlayer.

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                            • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 9173

                              #15
                              it is ok here ... many jazzbos liked it ... and Mr Barrett is active on the free improv scene with Evan Parker even though it is a H&N show
                              According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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