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BBC Radio 3 Open Ear: EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, We Spoke & Gwen Rouger LSO St Luke's, London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Extract

Simon Løffler's b presents to its audience an immediate question: where are the instruments? Three players sit on straight-backed chairs, joined by a daisy-chain of cables and guitar stomp boxes. The score directs a choreography of foot switching, demanding extraordinary pedal dexterity. Sounds pass down the line, modulated by distortion and equaliser effects, before bursting out of the PA in a series of abrupt electrical barks. But at the other end of the line there is nothing but an unplugged jack, held aloft, inserted nowhere but the open air.

Type
FIRST PERFORMANCES
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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