Time Echoes

An ear-opening celebration of the engagement by Afrodiasporic composers past and present with the interaction between live instrumental and electronic music, featuring four exciting soloists.

This concert invites us to listen and engage with works that exemplify Black radical tradition and ‘sounds (that) seek out a worlding between human and nonhuman entities through an endless capacity for reconfiguration, reorganization to materialize worlds outside the locked grooves of anti-Black violence and environmental destruction.’ (Henry Ivry)

Featuring leading clarinettist Heather Roche and cellist Elliott Bailey, flautist Lara Aisha Ali and Norwegian-based violist Laura M. B. Kumwenda performing five UK premieres of work by electronic music pioneers, from Moroccan composer Ahmed Essyad and Olly Wilson (US) alongside works by Ivan Liuzzo, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Pamela Z, Allison Loggins-Hull and Marcos Balter.

Always, Already There is the first UK edition of George Lewis’s Afrodiasporic Incubator project. Curated by vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener, in partnership with Guildhall School of Music & Drama. It explores the radical, varied and richly experimental work of Afrodiasporic composers, past and present.

Programme

Ivan Liuzzo Tikur for cello and electronics
Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman The Girl, the Turtle and the Earthquake
Olly Wilson Echoes for clarient and tape
Ahmed Essyad Asselman for amplified bass flute
Pamela Z Four movements for cello and delay electronics
Allison Loggins-Hull Say Can You for piccolo + electronics

Performers

Elliott Bailey cello
Laura MB Kumwenda viola
Heather Roche clarinet
Lara Aisha Ali flute