Maison des Arts Sonores – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 18th March 2020

Time: 7pm – 10pm

Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London

Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series

Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maison-des-arts-sonores-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73452647847

Artistic director Julien Guillamet presents a diverse concert of electroacoustic and acousmatic works developed by the composers and partners of the Montpellier based maison des artes sonores.

maison des artes sonores is a center for the development of applied research on electroacoustic practices. Supporting contemporary music and musical creation based in Montpellier, maison des artes sonores facilitates the creation, production, transmission and dissemination of new musical and sound works in public concerts promoting and building awareness of contemporary repertoire. The House of Sound Arts creates links with various local and international contemporary music and art organizations (museums, universities, conservatories, ensembles and orchestras, associations and other schools).

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. Regular concerts, featuring work by international artists alongside students of Sound Design, take place in and around Greenwich.

Further Concert Dates: http://bit.ly/2MnRdGf

Theremin Centenary Concert (w. Lydia Kavina) – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 19th February 2020

Time: 7pm – 10pm

Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London

Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series

Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theremin-centenary-concert-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73451016969

Virtuoso Lydia Kavina leads a Theremin ensemble in a diverse programme celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the invention of the Theremin.


Theremin Centenary Concert – 19th February 2020

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of this iconic electronic instrument, this concert featured new compositions and historically important works, showcasing the history of a century of theremin music.

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  • Introduction – Lev Theremin & Ensemble
  • Chase – Andrew Knight-Hill – [PREMIERE]
  • The Swan – Camille Saint-Saëns Arr. Lydia Kavina
  • Free Music 1 & 2 – Percy Grainger
  • Rhythmicon Ensemble – Lydia Kavina
  • Hyperdrone #2 – Anna Triosi – [LONDON PREMIERE]
  • Mixing Radio – Lydia Kavina
  • Theremin Breaks – Mishael Holdbrook [PREMIERE]
  • Theremin Film Music – Bernard Herrmann, Danny Elfman, Howard Shaw
  • Sirenscapes – Nadine Schütz – [WORLD PREMIERE]

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–Theremin Ensemble —
Lev Theremin
Lydia Kavina
Charlie Draper
Terry Bowler
Greta Pistaceci
Alina Islamova
Susi O’Neill
Sam Enthoven

–Electronic Sound–
Mishael Holdbrook
Nadine Schutz

–Prepared Piano–
Anna Triosi

–Video & Sound Projection–
Andrew Knight-Hill
Reid Dudley-Pearson



Lydia Kavina is one of the leading performing musicians on the theremin. She began studying the theremin at the age of 9 under the direction of Léon Theremin. Lydia’s most notable recent works were solo performance in Danny Elfman’s UK concert tour with BBC concert orchestra and London Concert orchestra (2013-2014), as well as the theremin solo in ”The Little Mermaid”, a ballet by Lera Auerbach, choreographed by John Neumeier, in Copenhagen New Opera House, Hamburger Staatsoper and Beijing Tianqiao Theater, (2005-2015). Lydia played for a number of film soundtracks including “Ed Wood” and “eXistetnZ” with music by Howard Shore and ”The Machinist” by Roque Banos.

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. Regular concerts, featuring work by international artists alongside students of Sound Design, take place in and around Greenwich.

Further Concert Dates: http://bit.ly/2MnRdGf

Explore Ensemble – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Tuesday 28th January 2020

Time: 7pm – 10pm

Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London

Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series

Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/explore-ensemble-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73447991921


Concert Programme

Featuring works for instruments and live electronics, reimagined and adapted for
loudspeaker orchestra, from stereo to 16.1 surround.

– Natasha Barrett Sagittarius A*
For solo violin and live electronics
2017, 32 minutes

[Interval]

– John Croft Intermedio III
For solo bass clarinet and live electronics
2012, 8 minutes

– Kaija Saariaho Petals
For solo cello and live electronics
1988, 9 minutes

– John Croft …ne l’aura che trema
For solo alto flute and live electronics
2010, 13 minutes

– Luigi Nono A Pierre. Dell’azzurro Silenzio Inquietum
For bass flute, contrabass clarinet, and live electronics
1985, 10 minutes

Soloists of Explore Ensemble:
Taylor MacLennan – flutes
Alex Roberts – clarinets
Sarah Saviet – violin
Deni Teo – ‘cello
Nicholas Moroz – artistic director & electronics


Explore Ensemble immerses instruments and audiences among a live 3D loudspeaker orchestra to present the London premiere of Natasha Barrett’s ‘Sagittarius A*’ and rare modernist works reimagined with ambisonic technology .

Explore Ensemble work at the radical frontiers of new music, offering audiences outstanding performances of internationally acclaimed composers, advocating music rarely heard in the UK, and working closely with composers on new works to foster a repertoire for the future. Described as ‘Indefatigably outstanding’, Explore Ensemble have featured at several editions of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival while performing alongside the EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, as well as feature on BBC Radio 3, at London’s Principal Sound Festival, Cafe OTO, Kings Place, the Royal College of Music, and outside of London in Manchester, Leeds, Oxford, and Germany.

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. Regular concerts, featuring work by international artists alongside students of Sound Design, take place in and around Greenwich.

Further Concert Dates: http://bit.ly/2MnRdGf

Gerriet K. Sharma & Angela McArthur – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

The Aesthetics of Sound As Space Gerriet K. Sharma & Angela McArthur

Date: Wednesday 4th December 2019

Time: 7pm – 10pm

Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London

Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series

Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gerriet-k-sharma-angela-mcarthur-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73446712093

Gerriet K. Sharma and Angela McArthur present a concert of works composed for the IKO icosahedral loudspeaker. It uniquely inverts outside-inside spatial sound phenomena, creating a compelling sound experience.

Gerriet K. Sharma is a composer and sound artist with extensive experience in a wide range of artistic practices. Working with engineers he helped develop the IKO technology, applying artistic research practice to strengthen and perfect the design. Sharma was Edgard Varèse guest professor (DAAD) at the Electronic Studio of TU Berlin. Angela McArthur is artist-in-residence at the Institut für Elektronische Musik (IEM) in Graz. She has had recent exhibits at Ars Electronica (in collaboration with the BBC), Tate Modern (in collaboration with Nathaniel Mann) and Sheffield DocFest.

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. Regular concerts, featuring work by international artists alongside students of Sound Design, take place in and around Greenwich.

Further Concert Dates: http://bit.ly/2MnRdGf

SOUND/IMAGE 19

SOUND/IMAGE 19 – Exploring Sonic and Audio-Visual Practice

Dates: 9-10th November 2019

This colloquium hosted by the School of Design of the University of Greenwich, explores the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves.

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Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings and loudspeaker orchestra concerts – we bring together artists and experts to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena.

Special Guests:

Annette Vande Gorne, composer and artistic director of the international festival L’espace du son, brings her extensive ouvre to London to present a concert of multichannel acousmatic.

Tickets for Annette Vande Gorne’s Concert ONLY: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annette-vande-gorne-loudspeaker-orchestra-concert-tickets-73442286857

Terry Flaxton has worked for decades with sound composition, photography and film. His work today focuses on durational forms of the digital including sound, video, print and installation.

Conference Dinner:

There will be a 3 course conference dinner, price £45 per person on Saturday 9 November, 8.30pm which can be booked when selecting tickets.

Provisional Programme can be viewed here (will be subject to change): http://bit.ly/2kRAqSc

Further information: https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sound-image/

Should you have any questions or queries please contact the conference team by email: Sound-Image@greenwich.ac.uk

Annette Vande Gorne – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Saturday 9th November 2019

Time: 7pm – 10pm

Location: University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street, London SE10 9BD

Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series

This event will be included in the cost of the SOUND/IMAGE19 Conference ticket which can be booked here: https://sound-image-19.eventbrite.co.uk

World leading composer Annette Vande Gorne presents a concert of multichannel acousmatic works as part of SOUND/IMAGE19. The artisitic director of the international festival L’espace du son brings her extensive ouvre to London.

Annette Vande Gorne can be heard in concert (more than 500) in many European countries, as well as Canada, China and South America, presenting repertory works of acousmatics in addition to her own works, usually on a 80-loudspeaker acousmonium. Her music focuses on the sounding energies of nature; she uses natural sounds and transforms them in studio to create an abstract, expressive, and non-anecdotal musical language. The relationship between text and music is another subject she often explores. She produced an acousmatic opera “yawar fiesta” which completely renews the genre while creating a link with the past. She studied classical music at the Royal Conservatory of Mons and Brussels, and with Jean Absil (fuga, instrumental composition). She also studied electroacoustic composition with Reibel and Schaeffer at the Paris National Conservatory. She is the artistic director of Brussels’ international acousmatic festival L’espace du son, and of the international competitions Espace du son (spatialization) and Métamorphoses (acousmatic composition). Vande Gorne founded and still leads the non-profit association Musiques & Recherches, and the studio Métamorphose d’Orphée (founded in 1982). She is the publisher of the electronic Lien and of the Electrodoc documentation center www.musiques-recherches.be She taught electroacoustic composition: Royal Conservatories of Liege, Brussels and Mons where she created a complete electroacoustic department in 2002. Professor emeritus since 2016.

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. Regular concerts, featuring work by international artists alongside students of Sound Design, take place in and around Greenwich.

Further Concert Dates: http://bit.ly/2MnRdGf

INA GRM Groupe de Recherches Musicales – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 6th November 2019

Time: 7pm – 10pm

Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London

Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series

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INA / GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, visit us from Paris to present a rare London concert featuring a programme of acousmatic music featuring both new works and seminal compositions.

Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) was founded in 1958 and is a pioneer and world leader in the research and development of sound arts and electroacoustic music. The GRM has a long and illustrious history of composition and research, currently a part of INA (Institut national de l’audiovisuel), it presents regular concerts electroacoustic music and develops the GRM Tools, a suite of software plugins for sound transformation and design. This concert programme brings together contemporary works with seminal compositions demonstrating the breadth and depth of GRM’s contribution to contemporary electronic music.

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. Regular concerts, featuring work by international artists alongside students of Sound Design, take place in and around Greenwich.

Further Concert Dates: http://bit.ly/2MnRdGf

Immersive Hyperreal Soundscapes – w. Paula Fairfield & Brona Martin

On the 24th and 31st July 2019 in Highgate we put on diverse programmes of soundscape and electronic music presented in the Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology of L-ISA Ocean by L-Acoustics.

Go behind the scenes to find out more in the following short documentary films:

Learning about our successful Loudspeaker Orchestra concerts series, innovative audio manufacturer L-Acoustics approached Sound Design at Greenwich to curate a series of loudspeaker concerts utilising the new L-ISA Ocean technology installed at their Highgate Studio.

Support from the Higher Education Investment Fund through the University of Greenwich enabled the commission and development of new works by world leading Sound Designer Paula Fairfield (Game of Thrones, The River, LOST) and electroacoustic composer Brona Martin as well as from Sound Design at Greenwich composers Mateo Monje-Shefford, Walter Baccoli, Jerry Dewing, Jodie Clarke-Mattis and Andrew Knight-Hill.

The works presented explore the possibilities inherent in the 24 channel L-ISA Ocean System, engaging space as a key compositional parameter, to immerse and envelop audiences in rich new worlds of sound.

These concerts of electronic, electroacoustic, soundscapes are FREE but spaces are LIMITED, thus booking is essential.

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Paula Fairfield is an International and Emmy award winning sound designer for tv, film, commercials, and basically anything that makes noise. She has eight Emmy nominations with one win for her work on Game of Thrones, along with multiple wins and nominations for her work in both The US and Canada. During her career she has had the privilege of working on tv projects such as the iconic LOST and visionary filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez, Brian DePalma, Paul McGuigan and Darren Aronofsky.

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Brona Martin is an Electroacoustic composer and sound artist from Banagher, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Her work deals with questions of narrative in Electroacoustic music, soundscape composition, acoustic ecology and spatialisation. She composes acousmatic works in a variety of spatial audio formats (stereo, 5.1 and 8-channel), which feature the creative exploration of soundscapes from Ireland, Manchester, East Coast Australia, Spain and Germany.

Her works have been performed internationally at EMS, ACMC, ICMC, NYCEMF, ISSTA, ZKM, BEAST, Balance/Unbalance, SSSP, iFIMPaC, Sonorities and MANTIS.

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Sound Design at Greenwich is committed to introducing new audiences to diverse sonic practices. Its popular public concert series presents regular events featuring world leading electroacoustic music practitioners, the annual SOUND/IMAGE conference explores audiovisual practices, while its lecture series welcomes top industry professionals working in Post-Production sound.

Simon Atkinson / Night Music – Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert

Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019

Time: 7pm – 10pm

Location: St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London

Tickets: £5 or offer £30 for 7 Concerts in the Loudspeaker Concert Series

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Simon Atkinson presents a programme of acousmatic and lowercase music inspired by the nocturnal and evocative of the night, projected over the Loudspeaker Orchestra.

Simon is Associate Professor and a founding member of the MTI: Institute for Sonic Creativity at De Montfort University, Leicester. His work is primarily in musical composition made possible through digital technologies, exploring the evolution of timbre and texture through time. He has worked in a diverse and eclectic range of musical projects, mediums and contexts over the years, recently in notable collaborations with dance and digital dance.

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. Regular concerts, featuring work by international artists alongside students of Sound Design, take place in and around Greenwich.

19/20 Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Loudspeaker Concert Series 2019/20. This year we welcome: Simon Atkinson, Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Annette Vande Gorne, Gerriet K. Sharma and Angela McArthur, Explore Ensemble, Lydia Kavina and Maison des Arts Sonores.

Tickets are available through our events page, please do book in advance to avoid disappointment!

What is the Loudspeaker Orchestra?

The Loudspeaker Orchestra presents immersive acoustic experiences through programmed concerts of multichannel sound design, sonic art and electroacoustic music. 

Our 19/20 concert series celebrates European community through contemporary music, welcoming leading international artists to present their work in the historic musical church of St Alfege in Greenwich. 


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16 October – Simon Atkinson: Night Music [UK]

6 November – INA / GRM: Groupe de Recherches Musicales [FR]

9 November – Annette Vande Gorne [BE]

9/10 November – SOUND/IMAGE conference*

4 December – Gerriet K. Scharma & Angela McArthur – IKO Project [DE]

28 January – Explore Ensemble [UK]

19 February – Theremin Centenary Concert w. Lydia Kavina [RU]

18 March – Maison des Arts Sonores [FR]


Concerts Start – 7pm  St Alfege Church, Greenwich SE10 9BJ
*SOUND/IMAGEConference Start – 10am11 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD

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