Icebreaker: Velocity

Saturday, May 5, 2018 - 8:00pm

In his 1983 classic, De snelheid, Louis Andriessen demonstrated the acoustic phenomenon of an ever-accelerating woodblock being subsumed into the stubbornly-held slower tempo of another instrumental group. Two works by Bang-on-a-Can composers David Lang and Michael Gordon provide a prelude, Gordon’s witty, electric-guitar-driven Yo Shakespeare and David Lang’s ‘wall of sound’ Slow Movement, once described as ‘perched somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Iannis Xenakis’. Anna Meredith’s propulsive ‘Nautilus’ from her recent album Varmints and Whitty’s nature is a language… offer contemporary notes.

Anna Meredith – Nautilus

Michael Gordon – Yo Shakespeare

Paul Whitty – nature is a language – can’t you read?

David Lang – Slow Movement

Louis Andriessen – De snelheid (‘Velocity’)

Kings Place – Hall One
90 York Way
London , N1 9AG United Kingdom