ED WILLIAMS & ANOUCK GENTHON + CHRIS CUNDY SOLO

Name: ED WILLIAMS & ANOUCK GENTHON + CHRIS CUNDY SOLO
Start: 2024-11-17T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Smokey Joe's Cafe Bar, Diner & Venue

Schedule

Sun Nov 17 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Smokey Joe's Cafe Bar, Diner & Venue | Cheltenham, EN

EAR TO THE GROUND PRESENTS: an evening of rare music and improvisation featuring baroque instruments and vintage electronics
Decompositions:
Ed Williams, Harpsichord
Anouck Genthon, Violin
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Chris Cundy, Bass Clarinet and Live Electronics
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Radio Egypt DJ's
Both the musical language and the instrumentation of Decompositions (acoustic, classical instruments and Baroque aesthetics in general) date from the era when humans were beginning to celebrate the explosive potential of fossil fuels and didn’t yet realise the horrific consequences. The approach embraces an aesthetics of care which requires listening together with one’s instrument as a non-human companion, with whom the musical event will emerge through deep, iterative exploration of tones and timbres. Aesthetically “painful” overdrive and highly-sensitive microtonalities encourage us to joyfully grieve the decaying, binary norms of traditional European culture. In this way, the process resembles that of a compost pile whose enzymes are left to work their magic, creating energy and enabling new, rhizomatic flora.
Chris Cundy is based in south west England and in recent years has also spent much of his time on the east coast of Canada. For over two decades he has specialised in bass clarinet and rarified woodwinds, touring internationally as a solo artist as well as accompanying acts such as Little Annie, Timber Timbre, Guillemots and Cold Specks. He also directs Mutata Radio Orchestra which is made up of some of Europe’s leading free improvisation and contemporary classical players and has written site-specific works which have recently been performed at The Roman Baths in Bath and for a number of other regional museums and heritage sites.