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A new production of Songs of Wars I Have Seen, directed by Heiner Goebbels, will get its first German performance on the 23rd and 24th May at the Münchner Kammerspiele.  Onstage (also as actors) will be the musicians of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Liebreich.  Rounding out the programme are further works for chamber orchestra by Goebbels, and Hanns Eisler’s Fünf Orchesterstücke. Ian created the sound design for the first performance and is working with Heiner on this new production. Heiner Goebbels - - HomeHome

A new production of Songs of Wars I Have Seen, directed by Heiner Goebbels, will get its first German performance on the 23rd and 24th May at the Münchner Kammerspiele.  Onstage (also as actors) will be the musicians of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Liebreich.  Rounding out the programme are further works for chamber orchestra by Goebbels, and Hanns Eisler’s Fünf Orchesterstücke.

Ian created the sound design for the first performance and is working with Heiner on this new production.


1 month ago 

IMPOSSIBLE BRILLIANCE : The music of Conlon Nancarrow

The London Sinfonietta celebrates the works of 20th-century musical maverickConlon Nancarrow. A former soldier in the Spanish Civil War, Nancarrow spent most of his life in Mexico exploring intricate rhythmic designs only playable by mechanical instruments. This event highlights existing and new arrangements of his jazzy and hyperkinetically energetic music and incorporates live projection depicting the character of Conlon Nancarrow by designer Netia Jones.

Presented by the London Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as part of Impossible Brilliance: the music of Conlon Nancarrow.

Baldur Brönnimann conductor
Ben Gernon conductor
Rex Lawson pianola
David Hockings percussion
Iain Farrington harpsichord
Sound Intermedia electronics
Netia Jones (for lightmap)projection design

1 month ago 

Graham Fitkin’s new opera HOME will be premiered next week at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre. The piece simply looks at the idea of ‘home’, what it might mean, the fragility of its protection and how shelter can twist into some thing more malign and hostile.   Rather than work with a librettist on a straight narrative, Graham asked director and choreographer Jasmin Vardimon to collaborate with him on this new short opera. Part of the ROH’s Operashots project, there are six initial performances beginning on 20 April 2012, for more information on tickets, cast and timings do click here  Ian is looking after the live sound.
Graham Fitkin’s new opera HOME will be premiered next week at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre.

The piece simply looks at the idea of ‘home’, what it might mean, the fragility of its protection and how shelter can twist into some thing more malign and hostile.  

Rather than work with a librettist on a straight narrative, Graham asked director and choreographer Jasmin Vardimon to collaborate with him on this new short opera.

Part of the ROH’s Operashots project, there are six initial performances beginning on 20 April 2012, for more information on tickets, cast and timings do click here 

Ian is looking after the live sound.

1 month ago  View high resolution

CONCERTO FOR BEATBOXER AND ORCHESTRA - Anna Meredith/Shlomo

Fri 20 April 2012 20:15 
Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra, with Hague Philharmonic Orchestra
Paard van Troje, The Hague, Holland

Tickets and performance info here.

Following a big success in London, Shlomo and five other Betaboxer stars perform Anna Meredith’s concerto in the Hague.  As Sound Designers of the original we are invited to Holland to engineer the Dutch premiere.


Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra - the show from Gemma Riggs on Vimeo.

2 months ago 

In Flanders Fields Museum - Ypres The museum is undergoing a complete makeover and we are proud to be looking after the musical sound design. Working with composer Stuart Staples (lead singer with the band Tindersticks), we will be projecting his score throughout the exhibition space, creating a musical journey as a counterpoint to the exhibits. http://www.inflandersfields.be/

In Flanders Fields Museum - Ypres

The museum is undergoing a complete makeover and we are proud to be looking after the musical sound design.

Working with composer Stuart Staples (lead singer with the band Tindersticks), we will be projecting his score throughout the exhibition space, creating a musical journey as a counterpoint to the exhibits.

2 months ago 

MINIMAL - Glasgow

Glasgow’s three year project to bring the masterworks of minimalist music to new audiences

23-25 March 2012

Glasgow Concert Halls, City Halls and Old Fruitmarket

We return to Glasgow to perform music by Andriessen, Bryars, Lang, Reich and Stockhausen, with London Sinfonietta and Theatre of Voices

2 months ago 

Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett, Britten Sinfonia & guests Featuring the world premieres of Nico Muhly’s new Cello Concerto and Owen Pallett’s new Violin Concerto, plus An 802 Moment with Sam Amidon, Doveman & more 16 March 2012 / 19:30Barbican Hall Sound design and engineering for Nico Muly’s Cello Concerto performed by Oliver Coates and Britten Sinfonia in the first half followed by a unique collaboration betwen Nico, Owen Pallett, Sam Amidon, Doveman and guests in the second.

Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett, Britten Sinfonia & guests

Featuring the world premieres of Nico Muhly’s new Cello Concerto and Owen Pallett’s new Violin Concerto, plus An 802 Moment with Sam Amidon, Doveman & more

16 March 2012 / 19:30
Barbican Hall

Sound design and engineering for Nico Muly’s Cello Concerto performed by Oliver Coates and Britten Sinfonia in the first half followed by a unique collaboration betwen Nico, Owen Pallett, Sam Amidon, Doveman and guests in the second.

2 months ago  3 notes View high resolution

TOTAL IMMERSION - Brett Dean

Total Immersion: Brett Dean

Saturday 17th March 2012
Barbican London

We are again taking care of the FOH sound for the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a Total Immersion event, this time celebrating the music of Australian Brett Dean. 

2 months ago 

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.

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.

5 months ago  1 note

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.

5 months ago 

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). 

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). 

5 months ago  9 notes View high resolution

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.

5 months ago  2 notes

A new production of Songs of Wars I Have Seen, directed by Heiner Goebbels, will get its first German performance on the 23rd and 24th May at the Münchner Kammerspiele.  Onstage (also as actors) will be the musicians of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Liebreich.  Rounding out the programme are further works for chamber orchestra by Goebbels, and Hanns Eisler’s Fünf Orchesterstücke. Ian created the sound design for the first performance and is working with Heiner on this new production. Heiner Goebbels - - HomeHome

A new production of Songs of Wars I Have Seen, directed by Heiner Goebbels, will get its first German performance on the 23rd and 24th May at the Münchner Kammerspiele.  Onstage (also as actors) will be the musicians of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Liebreich.  Rounding out the programme are further works for chamber orchestra by Goebbels, and Hanns Eisler’s Fünf Orchesterstücke.

Ian created the sound design for the first performance and is working with Heiner on this new production.


IMPOSSIBLE BRILLIANCE : The music of Conlon Nancarrow

The London Sinfonietta celebrates the works of 20th-century musical maverickConlon Nancarrow. A former soldier in the Spanish Civil War, Nancarrow spent most of his life in Mexico exploring intricate rhythmic designs only playable by mechanical instruments. This event highlights existing and new arrangements of his jazzy and hyperkinetically energetic music and incorporates live projection depicting the character of Conlon Nancarrow by designer Netia Jones.

Presented by the London Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as part of Impossible Brilliance: the music of Conlon Nancarrow.

Baldur Brönnimann conductor
Ben Gernon conductor
Rex Lawson pianola
David Hockings percussion
Iain Farrington harpsichord
Sound Intermedia electronics
Netia Jones (for lightmap)projection design

Graham Fitkin’s new opera HOME will be premiered next week at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre. The piece simply looks at the idea of ‘home’, what it might mean, the fragility of its protection and how shelter can twist into some thing more malign and hostile.   Rather than work with a librettist on a straight narrative, Graham asked director and choreographer Jasmin Vardimon to collaborate with him on this new short opera. Part of the ROH’s Operashots project, there are six initial performances beginning on 20 April 2012, for more information on tickets, cast and timings do click here  Ian is looking after the live sound.
Graham Fitkin’s new opera HOME will be premiered next week at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre.

The piece simply looks at the idea of ‘home’, what it might mean, the fragility of its protection and how shelter can twist into some thing more malign and hostile.  

Rather than work with a librettist on a straight narrative, Graham asked director and choreographer Jasmin Vardimon to collaborate with him on this new short opera.

Part of the ROH’s Operashots project, there are six initial performances beginning on 20 April 2012, for more information on tickets, cast and timings do click here 

Ian is looking after the live sound.

CONCERTO FOR BEATBOXER AND ORCHESTRA - Anna Meredith/Shlomo

Fri 20 April 2012 20:15 
Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra, with Hague Philharmonic Orchestra
Paard van Troje, The Hague, Holland

Tickets and performance info here.

Following a big success in London, Shlomo and five other Betaboxer stars perform Anna Meredith’s concerto in the Hague.  As Sound Designers of the original we are invited to Holland to engineer the Dutch premiere.


Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra - the show from Gemma Riggs on Vimeo.

In Flanders Fields Museum - Ypres The museum is undergoing a complete makeover and we are proud to be looking after the musical sound design. Working with composer Stuart Staples (lead singer with the band Tindersticks), we will be projecting his score throughout the exhibition space, creating a musical journey as a counterpoint to the exhibits. http://www.inflandersfields.be/

In Flanders Fields Museum - Ypres

The museum is undergoing a complete makeover and we are proud to be looking after the musical sound design.

Working with composer Stuart Staples (lead singer with the band Tindersticks), we will be projecting his score throughout the exhibition space, creating a musical journey as a counterpoint to the exhibits.

MINIMAL - Glasgow

Glasgow’s three year project to bring the masterworks of minimalist music to new audiences

23-25 March 2012

Glasgow Concert Halls, City Halls and Old Fruitmarket

We return to Glasgow to perform music by Andriessen, Bryars, Lang, Reich and Stockhausen, with London Sinfonietta and Theatre of Voices

Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett, Britten Sinfonia & guests Featuring the world premieres of Nico Muhly’s new Cello Concerto and Owen Pallett’s new Violin Concerto, plus An 802 Moment with Sam Amidon, Doveman & more 16 March 2012 / 19:30Barbican Hall Sound design and engineering for Nico Muly’s Cello Concerto performed by Oliver Coates and Britten Sinfonia in the first half followed by a unique collaboration betwen Nico, Owen Pallett, Sam Amidon, Doveman and guests in the second.

Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett, Britten Sinfonia & guests

Featuring the world premieres of Nico Muhly’s new Cello Concerto and Owen Pallett’s new Violin Concerto, plus An 802 Moment with Sam Amidon, Doveman & more

16 March 2012 / 19:30
Barbican Hall

Sound design and engineering for Nico Muly’s Cello Concerto performed by Oliver Coates and Britten Sinfonia in the first half followed by a unique collaboration betwen Nico, Owen Pallett, Sam Amidon, Doveman and guests in the second.

TOTAL IMMERSION - Brett Dean

Total Immersion: Brett Dean

Saturday 17th March 2012
Barbican London

We are again taking care of the FOH sound for the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a Total Immersion event, this time celebrating the music of Australian Brett Dean. 

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.

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.

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.

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). 

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). 

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.

IMPOSSIBLE BRILLIANCE : The music of Conlon Nancarrow
CONCERTO FOR BEATBOXER AND ORCHESTRA - Anna Meredith/Shlomo
MINIMAL - Glasgow
TOTAL IMMERSION - Brett Dean
The Death Of Klinghoffer - English National Opera
TOTAL IMMERSION - Jonathan Harvey

About:

Sound Intermedia - alias Ian Dearden and David Sheppard - is dedicated to realising visionary new art works through live performance and cutting-edge technology. Their trail-blazing initiatives and artistic collaborations continually push past the accepted boundaries of composition, sound design, live sound, music technology and interactive multimedia.

Internationally respected both as composers and performers, they collaborate with many of the world's most influential artists and organizations.

General Enquiries office@soundintermedia.co.uk

Ian Dearden ian@soundintermedia.co.uk

David Sheppard david@soundintermedia.co.uk