THE SWIMMING POOL - FILM SCORE

The Swimming Pool, By Carmen Dusmet Carrasco

The work emerges after a 2-year, domestic-ethnographic research. In an attempt to find proof of what it means to practice care, Carmen develops an obsession to observe and capture her mother’s journey towards a precarious retirement. What began as a socio-economic study of female poverty in Spain, led to an intimate negotiation of a mother-daughter relationship. The work unapologetically submerges the viewer on a raw, personal journey about the cyclic aspect of life and the desperate qualities of love.

Find the Director Carmen Dusmet Carrasco on instagram

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[LAND] & OTHER HAZARDS Premiered on BBC Radio NEW MUSIC SHOW

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including music from the recent Witten New Music Days, new solo works commissioned by Riot Ensemble, a major Proms premiere from Michael Finnissy and electronic music by Bérangère Maximin and Lee Fraser.

Listen back HERE (available until September 22nd 2020)

66 Days // Lola de la Mata x Britta Thie work-in-progress // Nonclassical x City of London commission

Painting “streams” by Britta Thie

Painting “streams” by Britta Thie

Get an exclusive look at the inspirations and processes behind our multimedia commissions in partnership with the City of London. Marking 400 years since the Mayflower sailed to America, each of our four Associate Composers have been working alongside collaborators to create audio-visual works exploring the themes of journeys, migration and cultural identity.

Take a look at some of the initial ideas from Nonclassical Associate Composer Lola de la Mata and her chosen collaborator, director, artist, actor and model Britta Thie – their work is centred around the concept of migration and travelling through technology. This virtual scrapbook includes quotes, audio experiments, and images which will feed into the final piece, to be premiered alongside the other commissions via our YouTube channel on Wed 16 Sep.

Journal of Music x BBC Radio 3 Feature

https://journalofmusic.com/news-uk/music-will-always-find-its-way-bbc-radio-3-premiere-new-series-contemporary-commissions

Six contemporary classical composers have been commissioned to create new works as part of a collaborative project between PRS for Music, new music collective the Riot Ensemble and conceptual project, Zeitgeist. BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show with Kate Molleson and Tom Service is premiering the new works, three of which were broadcast last week. 

Tune into BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show at 10pm on 22 August to listen to the rest of the new commissions.

To listen back to the previous programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lsz1

City of London Festival x Nonclassical presents: 66 Days

After a long wait to announce this mega trendy collab ;)
Nonclassical x City of London Festival got together to support Britta Thie (unbelievably cool Berlin based filmmaker, actor and model) and I to collaborate around themes of migration, marking 400 years since the Mayflower sailed to America.

This is just a short intro to us fumbling about at the beginning of our project:

https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/engage-1/2020/7/23/lola-britta

also check out Britta's work here: http://brittathie.tv/

Other collabs from Yfat Soul Zisso Blasio Kavuma Daniel Potter

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Queens of The Drag on charity album for #sisters uncut

released 26th May 2020

Women Composers Collective UK Women Composers Collective is a forum of international womxn composers and supporters based on facebook. Admins: Katie Seaton, Jenny Leigh Hodgins, Kristen Baum, Trace Callaghan, Jude Cowan Montague, Lois Mugleston, Emma Butterworth

Riot Ensemble announces 2020 solo commissions

The Riot Ensemble have today announced six solo commissions as part of their ongoing Zeitgeist project.

In November last year, PRS for Music announced that it was joining forces with Riot Ensemble and award-winning artist and composer Mira Calix to offer composers the chance to take part in development and recording workshops.

With COVID-19 social distancing measures still in place, plans have been transformed to focus on solo works, online workshops and individual coaching and mentoring sessions. 

Over the next few weeks, the pieces will be recorded by Riot Ensemble musicians at home.

The composers and musicians are as follows: 

  • Joe Bates – Marianne Schofield (double bass)

  • Oliver Brignall – Ruth Rosales (bassoon)

  • Carmen Ho – Claudia Racovicean (piano)

  • Zoë Martlew – Ruth Rosales (bassoon)

  • Lola de la Mata – Ausias Garrigos (bass clarinet)

  • Aidan Teplitzky – Sam Wilson (percussion)

Read more about the collaborations here:
https://www.prsformusic.com/m-magazine/news/riot-ensemble-reveal-2020-solo-commissions/

RESONANCE EXTRA - Interview with Colliding Lines

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller. This episode features performances from our live score series, re-imagining the visual music of 1920s Dada, where abstract painters explored the new medium of cinema through rhythm, geometry and colour.

Interview and broadcast of 3 compositions written for 1920s German experimental films from Colliding Lines Gig in March. Also featuring Ingrid Plum !

hear from me @ 1hr 11min

recorded Live on 05/03/20

November 2019 - THE GAZE - in collaboration with nonclassical

The Gaze – a term describing the act of seeing and being seen. Our event on Thursday 21 November explores identity, gender and The Gaze, bringing together female, non-binary and queer artists for an evening of performance art and new collaborations. Read on to learn about our artists, our curator Lola de la Mata and what you can expect from the evening.

https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/news/2019/10/29/meet-the-artists

Riccardo T. performing ‘Q-Hubris’, and Olivia Norris in the film ‘Sissy Fatigue’ @ IKLECTIK

Riccardo T. performing ‘Q-Hubris’, and Olivia Norris in the film ‘Sissy Fatigue’ @ IKLECTIK

JUNE 4th 2019 PERFORMANCE @UNDERDOG GALLERY 5PM TILL LATE

Musicity x Low Line London Architecture

Musicity, launched by Nick Luscombe, presenter of BBC Radio 3’s greatly-loved Late Junction music show, is collaborating with the Low Line in the latest instalment of a project which gives buildings and spaces their own new soundtrack and invites musicians and recording artists to compose tracks for cities around the world.

Fifteen musicians and recording artists have created fifteen audio tracks responding to fifteen locations in and around the railways arches which form the Low Line.  Each composition can be streamed and downloaded free of charge but only by visiting each location with a smartphone. Once there, people can listen to the new music on musicityglobal.comwhile taking in the architecture and neighbourhood that inspired it.

William Doyle – The Shard

Gestalt – Vinegar Yard

Chihiro Ono – Bermondsey Street Tunnel

Tom Szirtes – Holyrood Street

Erland Cooper – Underdog Gallery

James Alec Hardy – Druid Street Wildflower Meadow

Frog Morris – Blue Bermondsey

Cunning Folk – Biscuit Factory

Full list of artists and their chosen Low Line locations:

Lola de la Mata – Old Union Yard Arches

Thomas Stone – Ewer Street

Szjerdene – Wardens Grove

The Memory Band – Flat Iron Square

Nabihah Iqbal aka Throwing Shade – Borough Market

Lossy – Southwark Cathedral

Suitman Jungle – London Bridge Station