‘Flensburg’, the new Icarus / Badun split EP is now available via Bandcamp. There are also some reviews up on the Liminal and the Danish magazine Gaffa.
Also, a big thank you to everyone who helped organise the Icarus tour this spring and to everyone who came out to the shows. Icarus are set to return with a new studio album in the autumn, you can keep posted about it through the Icarus website.
Much activity has been logged of late in the Icarus camp, including remixes for Caribou, Inch-Time and Eclectic Method featuring Chuck D and a forthcoming split EP with Badun arriving in late May. There’s also a chance to catch Icarus live in the UK and Europe, details below and via the Icarus website.
Glue by Tom Arthurs, Miles Perkin &, Yorgos Dimitriadis is now available! Full details here.
‘The music of the trio comes directly from the multitudinous musical experiences of the three musicians, and is totally freely improvised without any predetermined thematic guidelines. For these musicians it’s about a coherent group music: no solos with accompaniment, rather a closely interwoven network of equal instruments. The pieces almost always begin with a clean slate, with a silence from which acoustic structures are carved like sculptures. The musicians are simultaneously performers and listeners, allowing the music space and finding surprise in whatever comes into being between them.’
Klaus Kürvers,
Berlin, 11th February 2011.
The ICA is hosting a mini-season on ‘Notation and Interpretation‘ until the 20th February that includes some fantastic performances and workshops. Lucy Railton has also curated a superbly eclectic range of scores that will be on display in the Fox reading room and I’m proud to say one of my scores is in the mix. However, at the moment Ollie and I are in session at STEIM in Amsterdam, working on new Icarus material, so I’ll miss the whole thing … any reflections much appreciated.
I’ve been very fortunate to be selected for the London Sinfonietta’s ‘Writing The Future‘ scheme. Six of us have been paired with musicians from the Sinfonietta to realise a solo piece that will be performed and recorded sometime in 2011. I chose to write for percussion and have started collaborating with David Hockings on the piece, which although in its infancy has already witnessed a myriad of percussion items harnessed to evoke a maelstrom of digital rituals that seem to accompany our every virtual intervention. (Photo by Chris Harrison)
