Hoop and Toy PUB
34 Thurloe Place
SW7 2HQ

Live performances from:

Harry Cameron-Penny – Clarinet (Mercury Quartet)
Ruaidhri Mannion (Partial Gathering)
Rolf Wall (solo balloon).

DJs: Richard Lannoy & Gabriel Prokofiev

£3 with this flyer / £4 without / Guestlist Free

IMPORT/EXPORT ALBUM
LAUNCH PARTY

POWERPLANT///

Joby Burgess
(percussion/electronics)
Kathy Hinde
(visuals)

Swedish Composers Exchange///

The Horse & Groom
28 Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3NZ

THIS MONTH Nonclassical launches the much anticipated new release from Powerplant – the multimedia group led by young genre-trashing percussionist, Joby Burgess with visuals from Kathy Hinde performing  selections from their groundbreaking commission ‘Import/Export: suite for global junk’ by Gabriel Prokofiev.   In addition we have new works from the experimental music camp New Music Incubator.

POWERPLANT / G.PROKOFIEV:IMPORT / EXPORT: SUITE FOR GLOBAL JUNK.

From solo Fanta bottle to voyages through common junk objects (a wooden pallet, plastic bags, an oil drum and soda bottles), G Prokofiev’s Import/Export is a piece that brings light to today’s environmental issues without preaching. Joby Burgess and Gabriel Prokofiev began exchanging ideas for collaboration since 2006, through the process of composing, workshopping and finding a way to write for the loop-driven system that Joby set up giving brith to Import/Export.

Despite ‘Import/Export’ taking inspiration from Electroacoustic, Musique concrete, Sonic Art pioneers and beyond from Schaeffer, Stockhasen, Cage and Varese to Babaton bendi and Zawose, Burgess performs found sounds LIVE. Doing so firmly buckles erstwhile reliance on backing tracks, DAT machines and/or laptops to perform Found/Alternative sounds as ‘live music’, thereby successfully acheiving performances that are musically dynamic and truly expressive. Import/Export proves too that traditional compositional form and development can prevail using found sounds without resorting to a cut-and-paste loop-fest generated in a studio by countless mouse clicks & edits.

Swedish Exchange: artists from New Music Incubator

Endorsing the dissolving distinctions between genres of ‘high and low’ art, with two successful projects in Sweden so far, New Music Incubator provides an international creative exchange lab for performers, composers, improvisers and sound artists to explore each other’s practice and continue to develop their own through workshop environments that encourage risk-taking and opportunity to experiment with new processes and techniques. Nonclassical tonight, presents Swedish performers and composers fresh from the NMI’s most recent gathering European gathering.

More info: http://www.natverkslager.se/

Live performances from 9pm and DJ sets from resident DJs Gabriel Prokofiev and Richard Lannoy throughout the night mixing contemporary classical, genre-busting remixes from the Nonclassical label and beyond.

London’s pioneering Alternative Classical club-night comes to Edinburgh for the first time this summer

// Weds 18th & Sat 21st Aug //
Metropolitain Bar //
6 Picardy Place
Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 3JT,

8pm- till late

tax on the door: TBC

live performances throughout the evening from some of the freshest new talent in the classical scene:
musicians from YYO (South Korea), WDCYO (scotland) & JUTP (SW England):

feat. chamber & solo works from: Phillip Glass, Karl Jenkins, Rupert Bond, G Prokofiev, Phillip Buttal, & more

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DJ sets in between live acts from composer/host:
Gabriel Prokofiev

CATCH the same players & more in a giant 168-piece Orchestral GALA concert -which will feature world premiers of new works by Gabriel Prokofiev & Rupert Bond.
Friday 20th August, 8pm @ St Mary’s Cathedral, almerston Place, EH12 5AW.

There will be no NONCLASSICAL in August due to the upcoming NONCLASSICAL US tour and a break for us in the office over the summer. We will be back as usual on the first Thursday of every month from the 2nd September with the full line up for this coming in the next week or so, in the mean time we also have some up coming releases on the NONCLASSICAL label which will be announce very shortly.

THERE WILL BE NO NONCLASSICAL CLUB IN AUGUST, BACK AGAIN ON THE 2nd SEPTEMBER

Speak soon

NONCLASSICAL

Thursday 1st July, 8pm
@ The Horse & Groom, EC2

JAMES MOORE Guitar (Alarm Will Sound)
WILL DUTTA – Piano
PARTIAL GATHERING (Cello & Electronics)

THIS MONTH NonClassical welcomes from Brooklyn NYC, James Moore, versatile guitarist with seminal NYC band Alarm Will Sound and electric guitar quartet Dither among other projects. We have the ever-intruiging developments of piano and electronics from Will Dutta fresh from striking recent collaborations with electronic artists Plaid and Scanner. Completing the line-up is Partial Gathering comprising composer Ruaidhri Mannion & cellist Corentin Chassard, described as: “engaging electronic beats fused with volatile string textures, Partial Gathering make musical paint and throw it around with reckless abandon”.

JAMES MOORE Guitar (Alarm Will Sound)
James Moore is a versatile guitarist from San Franciso Bay currently residing in Brooklyn NYC who healthily defies catagory. Performing on a wide variety of acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, ukulele, Bouzouki, and home-made in addition to work with his electric guitar quartet Dither gaining international recognition for precision playing and creative programming, he can be found playing with the likes of Alarm Will Sound, Bang on A Can, as well as performing works by the likes of Fred Frith Michael Gordon, and Christian Marclay. At Nonclassical he will be presenting two amplified banjo compositions: “Like a Prayer Remix” by Matt Marks, and “Limerence” by Paula Matthusen. More info: jamesmooreguitar.com

WILL DUTTA
Will Dutta, pianist, collaborator and Creative Producer of Chimera Productions, is noted for his unique and intelligent programming skills:connecting the dots between modern dance music and classical, contemporary and experimental art music. Recent highlights include performances at Kings Place and Ether 10 at the Southbank Centre and co-productions with BFI Southbank and Tate Britain. Will curates the Blank Canvas series and is also Executive Producer of the award-winning album, Gabriel Prokofiev’s Concerto for Turntables & Orchestra as performed by Heritage Orchestra featuring DJ Yoda (Nonclassical Recordings 2009).

PARTIAL GATHERING
Formed in late 2009, Partial Gathering is the avant-garde Cello and Electronics duo of composer, Ruaidhri Mannion, and cellist, Corentin Chassard. Debuting at London’s National Portrait Gallery, they explore the relationships between contemporary art and intuitive musical interactions, since performing at Home Is Where Your Art Is in Mayfair, Strung Out, the Vibe Bar, The Forge and on Resonance FM-Rockfort.
http://www.myspace.com/partialgathering

NONCLASSICAL in July is heading over to the USA for a short tour to showcase two of NONCLASSICAL’s newest releases from Powerplant (Joby Burgess) and GeNIA.

IMPORT/EXPORT from Powerplant (Joby Burgess) is inspired by the pioneering composers and musicians whose use of unconventional objects has created a groundbreaking repertoire for percussion over the last century. These range from institutional greats such as Schaeffer, Stockhausen, Cage and Varese, to the Babaton bendi in Tanzania and the Zawose family in Africa whose use of these instruments derives from a necessity to make music based on the recovery of the materials around them.

Piano Book No. 1 from GeNIA connects more to the classical tradition than previous Nonclassical releases, showing that though they may present classical music in a non-classical way, Nonclassical are still interested in continuing the legacy of classical music and moving it forward. One of the aims of GéNIA and Gabriel’s collaboration was to create an intimate sounding piano album that connected to the classic recordings of the past. This led to 88.2k digital recording of a hand-picked Steinway D-Series piano which was then mastered through analogue tape and vintage valve equipment, without compression.

These two new exciting releases will be showcased amongst other material across three dates.

The shows are as follows;

July 21st – Le Poisson Rouge – New York (early show – 6.30pm doors)

July 23rd – The Windup Space – Baltimore (part of the Contemporary Museum’s Mobtown Modern Music Series)

July 24th – Crane Arts Centre – Philidelphia

These are performances not to be missed from some of NONCLASSICAL’s most exciting performers!

Ticket info etc will follow shortly.

@ The Horse & Groom, EC2

The Alex Nikiporenko Duo

‘LIVE & WIRED’ (RAM)

Last month at the Horse & Groom, NONCLASSICAL accommodated one of our largest ensembles to date; The Dirty Electronics Ensemble, alongside a rare, never-to-be-repeated improvisation from Okkyung Lee and John Edwards. This month, we strip things down slightly but still promise you wires, violins and a nice healthy dose of chaos.

The Alex Nikiporenko Duo

Alex Nikiporenko fuses a variety of styles but his passion lies within improvisation and chamber music. Accompanied by his very talented drummer, Alex takes a break from being creative in residence at The Hostpital Club and composing commissions for the BBC Proms to bring us this intimate performance. Not one to miss!

‘Live & Wired’ – The Royal Academy of Music

World Premiere

Nonclassical are pleased to be the host for the premier performance of nine short works for violin and laptop. Performed by Aisha Orazbayeva and nine composers from RAM, the pieces explore the instrument by transforming its sound in real time and by mixing it with pre-recorded violin samples.

Live performances from 9pm and DJ sets from resident DJs Gabriel Prokofiev and Richard Lannoy throughout the night mixing contemporary classical, genre-busting remixes from the Nonclassical label and beyond.

@ The Horse & Groom, EC2

OKKYUNG LEE ft. JOHN EDWARDS

JOHN RICHARDS ‘DIRTY ELECTRONICS’

GéNIA

GABRIEL PROKOFIEV (DJ SET)

RICHARD LANNOY (DJ SET)

Last month at the Horse & Groom, NONCLASSICAL was rammed to the rafters with music lovers enjoying performances from GéNIA and Oxford-based music collective PINDROP. This month we have …

Okkyung Lee ft. John Edwards

Direct from New York’s lower east side, Cellist Okkyung Lee has worked with numerous artists on the improvisation scene, such as Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Steve Beresford, Evan Parker and Thurston Moore to name but a few. She will be joined by John Edwards on Double Bass, who is a regular player with Evan Parker.

Dirty Electronics (John Richards)

Dirty Electronics is a DIY electronics ensemble led by pioneer and researcher John Richards. The ensemble consists of workshop participants who make their own ‘instruments’. The will be performing pieces especially written for  The Dirty Electronics Ensemble by the Found Sound Group and Aled Start. Richards is currently collaborating with Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle fame.

GéNIA

Virtuoso pianist and educator GéNIA continues her 3 month residency at NONCLASSICAL by previewing more of her upcoming album G Prokofiev Piano Book No. 1, released on May 10th. Her last album on NONCLASSICAL was a collaboration between her and John Richards, so fingers crossed for a spontaneous collaboration on the night!

Live performances from 9pm and DJ sets from resident DJs Gabriel Prokofiev and Richard Lannoy throughout the night mixing contemporary classical, genre-busting remixes from the Nonclassical label and beyond.