Sound Intermedia

As part of the London 2012 festival: Hidden London, we are designing a sound system and control software for Nothing Is Set In Stone, a new installation by electronica artist Mira Calix.

http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961934

Nothing Is Set In Stone is a monolithic installation devised and composed by Mira Calix, designed by Overcraft. It incorporates an interactive sound system enabling visitors to experience the work through both touch and sound. Set in the tranquil surroundings of Fairlop Waters, a stunning country park and nature reserve in London Borough of Redbridge, the work will appear organically rooted in its landscape

Nothing Is Set In Stone is a partnership between the Mayor of London and Oxford Contemporary Music, Natural History Museum, the Exhibition Road Cultural Group, Fairlop Waters Country Park, Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure, sound designers; Soundintermedia, designers ; Overcraft and artistMira Calix.

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The Death Of Klinghoffer - English National Opera

In collaboration with John Adams’ sound designer Mark Grey, Sound Intermedia are designing and engineering the new ENO production of the American composer’s controversial ‘docu-opera’ about the killing of a Jewish-American tourist during the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Palestinian militants.

Tom Morris, co-director of The National Theatre’s War Horse is making his opera directing debut. Baldur Brönnimann conducts.

Click for more information at ENO.

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The Long Count - Bryce and Aaron Dessner of the National in collaboration with visual artist Matthew Ritchie at the Barbican, London, 2 - 4 February.

David Sheppard worked with the Dessners to design live electronic interaction with the music and an integrated sound design that allows him to perform as part of the band, capturing and processing the instruments and voices with an extension into a surround system around the audience.

Info from the Barbican’ web site:

Acclaimed rock band The National’s twin brothers Bryce andAaron Dessner conceived The Long Count in collaboration with video artist Matthew Ritchie as a multimedia concert, which explores the ‘time before time’; the indivisible moment before creation is expressed.

Inspired by the ‘hero twins’ of the Mayan creation myth contained in the Popol Vuh – of which the Long Count calendar is an important part – the show presents a mythical song cycle of subtly interweaving guitars, solemn a capella, layered sound structures and scintillating rock.

The Dessners team up with a 12-strong orchestra, surrounded by an impressive installation designed by Ritchie, and singers/performers Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Kelley Deal (The Breeders).

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TOTAL IMMERSION - Jonathan Harvey

A weekend of music, film and discussion celebrating the music of Jonathan Harvey .

Barbican Centre

28-29 January 2012

In collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, the EU-funded Integra Project, and the composer himself, Sound Intermedia will present TOTAL IMMERSION: Jonathan Harvey. We will be looking after the live electronics and sound projection for two concerts - featuring Madonna of Winter and Spring from 1986 and Ashes Dance Back from 1997.

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Throughout 2012 we will be touring with the Colin Currie Group for performances of Steve Reich’s Drumming, as well as collaborating on their forthcoming recording of the work.

http://www.intermusica.co.uk/projects/features/colin-currie-group-reichs-53896#Media

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Survivor - Hofesh Shechter & Antony Gormley

Brave and different, Survivor has as its centre an original new score by Shechter set within a visual landscape by Gormley. Together they determine the rhythm and narrative of the work. Says Gormley: “Survivor is a work by Hofesh Shechter, interrupted and reconstructed by Antony Gormley.”

Ian Dearden is collaborating with Shechter and Gormley to design and realise the live sound of this exciting new work. Shechter’s 30 strong band is joined on the Barbican stage by 100 drummers and 5 dancers.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/news/artformnews/theatredance/hofesh-shechter-and-antony-gorml

http://www.hofesh.co.uk/survivor.html

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In December 2011 London Sinfonietta is releasing 3 landmark recordings on CD and DVD featuring 3 of the greatest living composers - Thomas Adès , Jonathan Harvey and Louis Andriessen

Recorded live in concert at Symphony Hall Birmingham, the CD/DVD of In Seven Days by Thomas Adès and visual artist Tal Rosner was engineered and produced by Ian and is released on Signum Records.

See an extract from the DVD here.

David and Ian created the live electronics for the wonderful Bird Concerto with Pianosong by Jonathan Harvey, recorded live at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2009 and released on NMC Recordings.

http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/bird-concerto-pianosong

Also on Signum Records Ian engineered and produced the live recording from Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London of Louis Andriessen’s early masterpiece De Staat, and his monodrama Anais Nin.

More information can be found here.

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David Sheppard was soound designer for the latest Matthew Ritchie and Bryce Dessner collaboration. Matthew has an art exhibit at L & M Arts in Los Angeles entitled Monstrance which opened to a spectacular performance on Venice Beach with music specially composed by Bryce and Shara Worden - aka My Brightest Diamond. The music had prerecorded instrumental parts, live electronics, live electric guitar, organ and trombone, plus vocals by Shara. The entire performance had to be broadcast wirelessly to the audience and performers as no amplified sound is permissable on the beach.

The exhibition runs until Jan 12.

http://www.lmgallery.com/exhibitions/matthew-ritchie/

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Celebrating Steve Reich at 75

We have been working with Steve Reich for over 25 years and in 2011 joined in the birthday celebrations for Steve Reich at 75.

Sound Intermedia coordinated the live sound requirements and engineered over 20 events in London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Stockholm, presenting many of his most exciting and ground breaking pieces ranging from Clapping Music and Violin Phase, through Different Trains, Sextet and Music for 18 Musicians, to Tehillim and The Desert Music. We supported performances by Amadinda Percussion Group, Colin Currie Group, Fläskkvartetten, Kroumata, London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, So Percussion, Synergy Vocals and Theatre of Voices.

Happy Birthday Steve.

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Sonic Explorations

Twenty four pieces of electro-acoustic music performed with the London Sinfonietta over two days, in four concerts at Kings Place, London. It featured the music of pioneering composers Bernard Parmegiani and the late Tim Souster, plus world premiers of pieces by composers from Holland, Poland and the UK.

Tim Souster’s Spectral in rehearsal

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