29 January 2007
Techno Baroque: concert premiere
Students perform with International artist
IF music has one fault – it’s predictability.
We’ve all heard a million records that sound like a million others, and most of us can see where a tune’s going before it actually gets there!
Maybe it’s time to let the computer randomiser take over and introduce some surprise into your musical experience.
Composer-musician Nigel Morgan combines traditional instruments with specially-designed software which re-orders the score and controls the notation, to create unexpected and refreshing sounds.
A new collaboration with MMU Cheshire sees the premiere this Wednesday, January 31, of Morgan’s ‘Continuum with Blues’ a piece for a contemporary jazz ensemble with a difference.
Free concert
The free concert in the Axis Theatre, Alsager Campus, features one of the finest contemporary guitar players in the country and the New Music Ensemble, based in the Department of Contemporary Arts.
Julian Brooks, an undergraduate on the Sonic Arts and Music degree and concert organiser, said: "Nigel has based the composition on baroque music. It sounds like complex Detroit techno or early 70s Miles Davis. His method is unique and definitely on the up, with works being performed and recorded in the USA, Canada and Europe.
"This is a premiere of both the composition and the technology. The concert is tied into a lecture that will be given at Plymouth University shortly after the performance and there is also going to be a feature about the event on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune ' program."
For more, contact julian.brooks@student.mmu.ac.uk
