Mind-blowing soundscapes, Quiver
September 25, 2009
An astonishing evening of the musical kind. A program including 2 world premiere performances. This was delightful, and strange. i don’t have the musical vocabulary to describe what happened.
Quiver | New Music Ensemble | is a group that plays some kind of Alien Spacecraft Contemporary Classical music. Plucking the strings of a grand piano, playing tuba without the mouthpiece, blowing the clarinet reed into a bowl of bubble bath.
Such beauty.. in the church setting, with the organ up on high.
One chapter of the performance used the full organ to great effect.. a drummer who would intermittently cease drumming to cry out his quotes from cinematic history (or was it comic-book history?).
Nothing ordinary about this performance.. very enjoyable.
Links:
Can’t find any link to Quiver online, but Aviva the magical clarinet player also plays with Mamushka who have some great tunes online.. and who are playing Wealth of Nations this Thursday 1st October. i can’t wait!!
Listen.
Extraordinary music!!
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