Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers and Electronics - Birmingham
Schedule
Fri Sep 30 2022 at 07:00 pm
Location
St Paul's Church, Birmingham | Birmingham, EN
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7PM DOORS7:30PM JAMES MCILWRATH
8PM PENDULUMS
‘a sumptuous piece of work ‘
Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3 Freeness
‘a quite stunning achievement’
Richard Williams, The Blue Moment
‘the most surprising and rewarding album I have heard this year’
Chris Baber, Jazzviews
‘extraordinary and compelling…an expansive, cacophonous triumph’
Adrian Pallant, LondonJazzNews
‘a powerful fusion of the emotional and the mathematical, at scale’
AJ Dehany, LondonJazzNews
Pendulums is a bold new suite of original music for Bellringers, Improvisers and Electronics featuring some of the UK's most exciting musicians alongside the Bellringers of St Paul's Church JQ, and live electro-acoustic pieces of remixed field recordings from churches, bells and related found sounds along the way.
This Autumn it tours the UK, working with local ringers in the churches of Sacred Trinity Salford, St George’s Newcastle, St John’s Sheffield, St Peter Mancroft Norwich and St Paul’s Birmingham, accompanied by the stunning visuals of artist Sarah Farmer.
Pendulums was commissioned by Ideas of Noise with additional funding from Help Musicians UK and Arts Council England. The recordings for the album were made at the premiere on 8th February 2020 with additional recordings on 27th October 2020 at St Paul’s Church Birmingham. This tour is generously supported by Arts Council England.
‘The music on this record is inspired by the sounds, patterns and processes of bellringing. Some of it involves musicians pretending to be bells, other parts involve bellringers pretending to be metronomes, sometimes everyone plays together.
Campanology is an interesting art form in that it embraces many contradictions; it is simultaneously extrovert and introvert, ritual and recreational, music and not-music.
I love the collectivism that I felt from rehearsing with the bellringers at St Paul’s, and the meditative feeling that descends in the ringing chamber when a course is being rung. I hope to capture some of those thoughts in the music, and that you enjoy listening to it.’
Andrew Woodhead
MUSICIANS
Trumpets:
Sam Wooster
Charlotte Keeffe
Alto Saxophones:
Sam Andreae
Lee Griffiths
Baritone Saxophones:
Helen Pappioannou
Alicia Gardener-Trejo
Compositions and Live Electronics:
Andrew Woodhead
Live Visuals: Sarah Farmer
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Where is it happening?
St Paul's Church, Birmingham, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays: