Date
Saturday 8 October 2016 at 6:00pm
Location
Union Chapel
Compton Terrace,
London,
N1 2UN,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44.(0)20 7226 1686
Link
http://store.unionchapel.org.uk/events/8-oct-16-organ-reframed-union-chapel/
Description
Join us this October for an exciting new festival, Organ Reframed. We’ll release our 1877 organ from its traditional roots with a varied programme of film, intimate solo sets, ensemble improvisations and large scale commissions.
Spire, an experimental music programme for organ and electronic works, pushes the envelope for which this most traditional of instruments is used. The organ has the greatest frequency range of any acoustic instrument, but this is rarely exploited; the unique sound of the mechanical organ has often been limited and controlled and Spire aims to liberate it from its history without denying that history.
The programme is carefully curated by Charles Matthews, organist, and Mike Harding, creative producer; combining organ works ancient (The Robertsbridge Codex) and modern (Scelsi and others). Other performers use the organ and organ works as a basis for their own compositions, using piano, voice, record players, samplers and other electronic devices.
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