Projects
…Brew - The Miles Davis Project more ↓↓
We are delighted to return to the stage with a revival of the hugely successful 2008 ICA show …Brew – The Miles Davis Project, influenced by Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. We have invited leading composers to send ‘postcards’ from Miles Davis and from these starting points we work a ‘brew’ of rhythm and sound into our own dark magic. The results are spellbinding.
“feverish burning creativity.....under the ever-cool command of the intrepid Peter Wiegold”
“Sometimes an abstract, building, beat-less atmosphere, other times a bass-heavy hip-hop style instrumental and everything in between, the performance was absolutely absorbing. A magical, musical trip...”
Thursday 15 September 2011, 8.15pm - CONCERT
Théâtre de Valère – Sion, near Geneva, Switzerland
In collaboration with Percussionist and Music Producer Christophe Fellay
To book tickets go to www.theatredevalere.ch
Friday 16 September 2011, 8.30pm - CONCERT
Théâtre du Crochetan – Monthey, near Geneva, Switzerland
In collaboration with Percussionist and Music Producer Christophe Fellay
To book tickets go to www.crochetan.ch
Monday 31 October 2011, 1pm - WORKSHOP
Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff
Come and witness composition students in the School of Music having their music rehearsed and receiving feedback from the performers in preparation for the concert in November
Friday 29 November 2011, 7pm - CONCERT
Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff
To book tickets, go to http://concerts.cf.ac.uk/whats_on?page
For more information please contact kate.halsall@thirdear.co.uk
Link to Third Ear website www.thirdear.co.uk
Saturday 10 December 2011, 7.30pm – CONCERT
Surrey University, Guildford
To book tickets, go to www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/music/events/
club inégales more ↓↓
notes inégales are delighted to invite you to our regular club night at The Draught Orders, the famous bar in a law firm. With a spectacular line-up of guest artists, club inégales has an intimate vibe that allows you to relax and enjoy the diversity of our music-making from the comfort of a sofa. Each night there will be a set from us, then a set from the guest, then a set where we all play together. Doors open 6pm. All gigs start at 8pm. Follow us on twitter @notesinegales
To book tickets go to www.clubinegales.eventbrite.com
Thursday 27 October 2011 – Christophe Fellay, percussion, sound artist
Thursday 10 November 2011 – Living Room in London & Manu Delago, hang drums
Thursday 24 November 2011 – Seb Rochford, drums (Polar Bear)
Thursday 8 December 2011 - Murray Lachlan Young, performance poet
Tuesday 20 December 2011 – Christmas Party
Thursday 27 October – Christophe Fellay
Christophe Fellay is a composer, musician, drummer, sound artist and performer living in Switzerland. He has created several interdisciplinary works including sound installations and performances. His own artistic research area is about acoustics, architecture and the interaction between humans and machines. notes inégales have just returned from a Swiss tour with Christophe which culminated in a new recording, for release later this year.
10 November – Living Room in London , featuring Manu Delago
Living Room in London is made up of five instrumentalist-composers: ‘Master hang drummer’ and Bjork collaborator Manu Delago, ‘Jazz newcomer of the year’ award winning saxophonist Christoph Pepe Auer and string players Ellie Fagg, Tom Norris and Gregor Riddell.
"The most intriguing musical fusion I've heard..." (The Times)
24 November - Seb Rochford, drummer (Polar Bear)
Sebastian Rochford is the extraordinary, imaginative and adventurous composer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist who, with his multi-genre output and the help of some key collaborators, has turned British jazz on its head. Polar Bear's raw-boned, dramatic music mixes jazz with an electronic soundscape and a punk sensibility, underpinned by break-beat and rock rhythms.
“a glamorous madcap genius relentlessly exploiting the radiant possibility of pulse to reshape the moment…” (The Guardian)
8 December – Murray Lachlan Young, performance poet
Murray Lachlan Young made his name as a writer performer in the Rock clubs and underground Cabaret venues of mid nineties London. After being spotted at a sell out show at Ronnie Scots Jazz Club delivering his unique blend of dark satirical stand up verse and prose, he signed a deal with the new Herb Albert and Jerry Moss Label Almo Sounds. This contract was then sold to EMI UK and he became the first spoken word artist to be given a priority deal by the mainstream music industry.
The Draught Orders, 180 North Gower Street, London, NW1 2NB
Nearest tube: Euston Square or Euston
www.hja.net/about-us/draught-orders-bar.aspx
Club inégales is made possible thanks to the generous hospitality of visionary law firm Hodge Jones & Allen
Recordings more ↓↓
nmc album: Earth and Stars
Peter Wiegold’s first portrait disc features the plaintive, pastoral Earth, receive an honoured guest, for cor anglais and strings, inspired by WH Auden’s well known elegy for WB Yeats; tthe elemental Kalachakra for large ensemble, using Tibetan bells and brass, based on a Tibetan cosmology and meditation practice; and the bittersweet, Viennese Earth and Stars, commissioned for the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death and featuring four harmonicas to represent an ancient funeral band, dug up from the soil by future generations. It is completed by Wiegold's touching setting of Jo Shapcott's poems, Les Roses.
Artists: Melinda Maxwell cor anglais Juliet Fraser soprano Martin Butler piano notes inégales South Bank Sinfonia Peter Wiegold conductor
new album: I cried to dream again
notes inégales album, released on Wiegold's own label: 2012
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.
Shuffle more ↓↓
shuffle
Sunday 6 September 2009:
Three performances by Peter Wiegold's innovative ensemble notes inégales with special guests, including new works for improvising ensemble by Sound and Music's shortlist composers, Christian Marclay's Shuffle, and the UK premiere of Wiegold's tribute to Mozart, Earth and Stars.
2.15-3pm: Shuffle I: notes inégales
Six Sound and Music shortlist composers submit musical 'postcards' and films around the theme of 'shuffle' or 'swing'. Starting with soloists from notes inégales, (Torbjorn Hultmark, trumpet, Melinda Maxwell, oboe, Martin Butler, piano, Christophe Fellay, percussion) building back to the full group.
The Sound and Music postcards will be score and audio based, including samples/live electronics and will be developed in collaboration with Peter Wiegold. Composers, composer/performers may join the improvisation.
3.45-4.30pm: Shuffle II: Christian Marclay
notes inégales perform Christian Marclay's 'Shuffle'.
Marclay photographed the appearance of musical notation in everyday places --finding examples on shop awnings, chocolate tins, T-shirts, underwear and other unexpected places. He then presented the 75 images in a box of oversized playing cards, creating a chance -based visual experience, that is also the basis for a spontaneous musical score.
5-5.45pm: Earth & Stars: notes inégales
Earth and Stars (UK Premiere) - Peter Wiegold
The piece was inspired by a poem written by Mozart 'Here rests a dear fool', and was commissioned by ensemble xxj Vienna, for Mozart's 250th anniversary.
The piece is for a requiem for Mozart, and for the 'fin-de-siècle' of Vienna. It is performed by an unusual ensemble: piccolo, cor anglais, contra bassoon, viola, double bass, piano, percussion and 4 harmonicas. Dark, earthy and a little incomplete, like some archaic funeral band that has been dug up from the soil, and no one can quite remember how to play the instruments and the music.
Hot - An Infernal Caberet more ↓↓
Hot - An Infernal Caberet
Tuesday 29th Nov 8pm
Studio Theatre Union Chapel Islington N1 2XD (entrance on Compton Avenue)
notes inégales are joined by celebrated performance poet Murray Lachlan Young to present
hot AN INFERNAL CABARET
programme includes
hot donatoni
infernal airs rameau (arr. butler)
from bitches brew miles davis (arr. butler/wiegold)
three proverbs of hell (william blake) wiegold
Damn Braces more ↓↓
Damn Braces
notes inégales: Purcell Room, March 2005
Le Lardon - Peter Wiegold
L’Entretien des Muses - Rameau
Unfold it - Tansy Davies (first performance, IF:05 Commission)
Le Rappel des Oiseaux - Rameau
Les Tourbillons - Morgan Hayes (first performance, IF:05 Commission)
Rigaudon, Deuxieme Rigaudon et Double, Musette en Rondeau - Rameau
Frank’d up - John Woolrich (first performance, IF:05 Commission)
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“Damn Braces” - Peter Wiegold (first performance, IF:05 Commission)
Each of the movements of the piece are based on one of the “Proverbs of Hell” from William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” I. Damn Braces II. Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead III. The nakedness of woman is the glory of god IV. The cistern contains: the fountain overflows V. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God VI. The soul of sweet delight shall never be defil’d VII. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom VIII. Bless relaxes
“Damn Braces” - Peter Wiegold
Each of the movements of the piece are based on one of the “Proverbs of Hell” from William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. Blake began this in about 1780, and it consists of illuminated plates of different kinds of text:
Religious argument:
That contrary to ideas of the time that body and soul are separate:
(1) Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that call’d body is a portion of soul discern’d by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
(2) Energy is the only life and is from Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy
(3) Energy is Eternal delight
Fantastic visions:
“but now, from between the black and white spiders, a cloud and fire bust and rolled thro’ the deep, black’ning all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a sea, & rolled with a terrible noise.......”
And the Proverbs:
“as I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs; thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Inferal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.
