London Sinfonietta plays WARP

Concertgebouw Brugge (Belgium), 17th of June, 20.00u

London Sinfonietta plays WARP (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada & Squarepusher…)

• Mira Calix live with 100 crickets + WARP Afterparty

WARP, the reknowed label of electronic music, versus the famous classical orchestra London Sinfonietta? The result is a perfect blend of WARP-beats and London Sinfonietta’s virtuosity. The fear for 'Aphex Twin goes classic' is unfounded. The biggest names on WARP, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Boards of Canada, revised, with help of David Horne & Morgan Hayes some of their tracks for the London Sinfonietta. A mutual interesting experience.

Mira Calix puts it like this: “Collaborating with the Sinfonietta on this reworking of my piece Nunu, has been such a lovely experience. As I'm not a classicaly trained musician, I suspected it may be difficult to work with others who were, however, this project really brought home to me, the fact that music is a language in itself, and thats what made it so easy to realise the piece, with people of such talent, but more importantly great imagination. I couldn't be more happy with the final result, but it was the discussion and rehearsals that I found really inspiring.”

The project formed not only a challenge for the WARP artists, but also for David Horne & Morgan Hayes.

David Horne: “Transcribing something which was electronic, and putting it into the realm of real instruments, requires so many different ways of thinking. Of course, you have to do a lot in transcribing an orchestra piece from the piano… but this was a very different thing to me, because all these interesting, fascinating, complex layers of sound in the originals.There was also even a practical thing. You couldn't transcribe everything. Some of it was literally impossible to transcribe. So in an odd sort of way I treated it as I would an original composition. I think it was the only way I could have actually transcribed the pieces, to tell the truth.” Horne renamed his arrangements of Squarepusher, Aphex Twin & Boards of Canada. ”I didn't call it something different just for fun. I call them Disintegrations because I was struck that there was a musical… Well, every piece was musically very different, but there was something similar that happened, in that they all disintegrated on a musical level. In a positive way. They had a tremendous drive and energy, and then it was as if purposefully the composers lost focus. All three compositions lose their way towards the end. The Aphex Twin one then comes back, and so does the Squarepusher to a certain extent; Boards of Canada less so, it really does die away. But I was very interested in that as a connection.” As a composer of contemporary classical music David Horne could add a certain richness to the compositions: “I think the idea of just literally transcribing it as it is usually wouldn't interest me because the original is going to be the best version of it. That particularly effects the way that I transcribe the rhythm parts of the piece. I didn't want to just take it verbatim. For instance, the Squarepusher is the best example, because it has an incredibly complex drum part, really, really complex. Transcribing that took hours and hours and hours and hours, listening in little three second chunks at a time to try and figure out what was going on. And I was actually surprised in the end by how much of that I kept. I wouldn't have not kept it because, say, I didn't like it or felt I could do better, but because it wouldn't have worked in the transcription. There's no point in doing a transcription for me, personally, unless I feel its looking at it from a different angle.”

Besides the composition from Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Boards of Canada, you can enjoy work from Ives, Cage, Nancarrow, Ligeti en Stockhausen and Mira Calix trains over 100 crickets for her composition Nunu.

During the break, exclusive WARP videos will be projected on an immens screen.

A steaming afterparty with a few surprises will fulfill all your dancing needs.

And above all the Concertgebouw takes care of the necessary coolness during those hot days in june: free icecream for everyone!

Tickets 10-25 euros 5 euro reduction for everyone younger than 26

Online Ticket Info: www.concertgebouw.be / 070 22 33 02

Jump on the bus in Brussels (17.45, Dansaertstraat 70) or Ghent (19.00, main entrance SMAK) for only 2 euro extra. A save return is guaranteed.

Programme Details:

György Ligeti, Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes Conlon Nancarrow/Yvar Mikhashoff, Study No 7 John Cage, Sonatas 1&2 (Sonatas&Interludes for prepared piano) Boards of Canada/David Horne, Disintegrations 2: Pete standing alone John Cage Sonatas 5&6 (Sonatas&Interludes for prepared piano) Mira Calix, Nunu (unconducted, unscored improvisation) Aphex Twin/David Horne, Disintegration No 3: afx237 v.7 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Spiral (saxophones, ShortWave radio, live electronics)

Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question John Cage Sonata 12 (Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano) György Ligeti, Kamerconcerto Squarepusher/Morgan Hayes, Port Rhombus Squarepusher/David Horne, Disintegrations 1: The TideConlon

Visuals by Flat-e & Bluespoon

Film interval programme:

Monkey Drummer. Chris Cunningham. Music by Aphex Twin Perpendicular / vector. Markus Wambsganss. Music By Anti Pop Consortium Little Numba. Daniele Lunghini. Mira Calix Blink! Simo Rouhiainen. A 2 minute strobe extraviganzer Gob Coit. Lynn Fox. Music by Chris Clark New Family. Bob. Music by Plaid Simone. Pleix Collective Gantz Graf. Alex Rutterford. Music By Autechre

Organisation: Concertgebouw Brugge Project support: Funky Green Aliens