- “one of the most brilliant pianists of the contemporary repertoire” The Sunday Times
Performances of Artificial Environment No.8
Artificial Environments
Out Hear
20:00, Monday 18 June 2012
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom
Luigi Nono manipulated recordings of the piano, placing them alongside the live instrument to create an original and compelling sound world; Joanna Bailie (external link) conjures an imagined situation; Newton Armstrong (external link) explores the interior detail of the instrument’s unique acoustic; Stefan Prins (external link) adds video, pitting two pianos against each other.
| Stefan Prins | Piano Hero #1 | 20119 |
| Stefan Prins | Piano Hero #2 | 2011, rev 20126 |
| Newton Armstrong | making one leaf transparent and then another | 2012*12 |
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-13*18 |
| Luigi Nono | .....sofferte onde serene... | 197614 |
Piano Transformed
Unerhörte Musik
20:30, Tuesday 19 February 2013
BKA Theater (external link)
Mehringdamm 34
Berlin
Germany
Four composers transform and extend the familiar piano sound in vastly different ways. Stefan Prins (external link) pits the instrument against its own virtual avatar while Newton Armstrong (external link) subtly expands its harmonies. Johannes Kriedler’s work uses audio and video playback as disruptive partners to the live performer, and Joanna Bailie (external link) creates new environments mediated by the piano.
| Stefan Prins | Piano Hero #1 | 20119 |
| Stefan Prins | Piano Hero #2 | 2011, rev 2012‡6 |
| Newton Armstrong | making one leaf transparent and then another | 201212 |
| Johannes Kreidler | Studie für Klavier, Audio- und Videozuspielung | 20116 |
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-13‡18 |
Changing the context
The Well-Tempered Everyday: Vinterlydfestivalen
16:00, Saturday 2 March 2013
Levinsalen, Norges musikkhøgskole (external link)
Slemdalsveien 11
0302 Oslo
Norway
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts | 201030 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Prelude & Fugue in C# minor BWV 849 | 172210 |
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
Environments
University of Huddersfield
19:30, Thursday 5 December 2013
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Mark Knoop presents music which challenges our conceptions of the listening environment.
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
| Chikako Morishita | soot | 2013*4 |
| Peter Ablinger | Piano and Record | 201225 |
| Pedro Alvarez | VER | 2013*16 |
| Nicolaus A. Huber | Beds and Brackets | 199018 |
Contexts
kgnm
20:30, Monday 9 June 2014
Loft (external link)
Wissmannstr. 30
50823 Köln
Germany
New British music for piano and electronics. A presentation by composer Matthew Shlomowitz (external link) will take place at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln the following day, 10 June at 11:00.
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
| Newton Armstrong | making one leaf transparent and then another | 201212 |
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts 2 | 201025 |
Plus-Minus @ Maerz
MaerzMusik
19:30, Monday 14 March 2016
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (external link)
Schaperstraße 24
Wilmersdorf Berlin
Germany
Plus Minus presents three concerts over one evening at MaerzMusik.
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environments Nos.1–5 | 2011§20 |
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Lecture about Bad Music | 2015§40 |
| Simon Løffler | b | 201210 |
| Johannes Kreidler | Charts Music | 2009, arr 20123 |
| Natacha Diels | 2.5 Nightmares, for Jessie | 201410 |
| Alexander Schubert | Sensate Focus | 201418 |
Artificial Environments
Ukho Music
20:00, Sunday 2 October 2016
Plivka
Vasylkivska 1
Kiev
Ukraine
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-13#18 |
| Steven Kazuo Takasugi | Die Klavierübung: movement 1 (version for piano and tape) | 2007-09/2014#11 |
| Newton Armstrong | making one leaf transparent and then another | 2012#12 |
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts 2 | 2010#25 |
Repetitions
Sampler Series
20:30, Thursday 27 October 2016
L’Auditori: Oriol Martorell (external link)
Lepant 150
08013 Barcelona
Spain
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environments Nos.1–5 | 201120 |
| Bryn Harrison | Repetitions in Extended Time | 200843 |
Exterior/Interior
Decontamination #8
20:00, Tuesday 22 November 2016
Carole Nash Recital Room (external link)
RNCM
M13 9RD Manchester
United Kingdom
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
| Bryn Harrison | Receiving the Approaching Memory | 2011-1240 |
Voices and Piano
Wiener Tage der zeitgenössischen Klaviermusik
19:00, Monday 29 January 2018
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
Alte Konzertsaal
Rennweg 8, 1030 Vienna
United Kingdom
Mark Knoop presents the opening concert for the Wiener Tage der zeitgenössischen Klaviermusik.
| Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
| Peter Ablinger | Voices and Piano (selection) | 1998- |
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- first performance in Germany
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- first performance in Ukraine