Oliver
Cheetham movie trailer - Afterspace
- start today Saturday 7th November. Cool movie
Circles
Project
James has now completed 3 circle
compositions - Berlin One (two movements for 12 Classical guitars),Berlin
Two (for 12 Cellos) - London Thames Circle (for 9 violins and 3
cellos) GO TO PROJECTS TO HEAR NEW MUSIC |
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Trimming
Pablo
James
has been commissioned to write the Score for Tim Newton's new film
- " Trimming Pablo" staring Paul Freeman and Chris Fairbank.
The film will be finished later this year.
info: www.trimmingpablo.com |
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Polka
Theatre Production
James
has been commissioned to write the score for the new Polka Theatre
production - "Monster under the Bed which will open in June.
info: www.polkatheatre.com |
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24
HOUR PAINTING AND COMPOSITION PROJECT – “CIRCLES”
Friday 23rd October 2009, 18.00 - 21.00
Saturday 24th October 2009, 14.00 - 18.00
Ivanov + Chan and composer James Hesford
will complete the 6th work of a series of an international
site-specific collaboration created during a 24hour
non stop period at the Horse Hospital, London.
(Previous sites include Berlin, Papa Westray (Orkney),
London – River Thames)
The Canvas - a suspended round tent - like structure
enclosing the artist for a non stop 24 hour period.
The Composition - created at the same time period and
site for 12 musicians in a 50 meter diameter circle.
The Video - created as an interaction with the Circle
Performance.
Viewing the Circle Experience - After 24 hour’s
performance the viewer can enter the Circle.
A completed recording of the composition and score will
be presented.
ADDRESS : The Horse Hospital : Colonnade, Bloomsbury,
London WC1N 1HX
by tube: Russell Square, Piccadilly Line
buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
The Horse Hospital is a unique arts venue in London
which has been providing a space for underground and
avantgarde media since 1993. We offer regular events
to our members showing rare film, music, and art, as
well as hosting a significant collection of fashion
items and related material.
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24
HOUR PAINTING AND COMPOSITION PROJECT – “CIRCLES”
Friday 23rd October 2009, 18.00 - 21.00
Saturday 24th October 2009, 14.00 - 18.00
Ivanov + Chan and composer James Hesford
will complete the 6th work of a series of an international
site-specific collaboration created during a 24hour
non stop period at the Horse Hospital, London.
(Previous sites include Berlin, Papa Westray (Orkney),
London – River Thames)
The Canvas - a suspended round tent - like structure
enclosing the artist for a non stop 24 hour period.
The Composition - created at the same time period and
site for 12 musicians in a 50 meter diameter circle.
The Video - created as an interaction with the Circle
Performance.
Viewing the Circle Experience - After 24 hour’s
performance the viewer can enter the Circle.
A completed recording of the composition and score will
be presented.
ADDRESS : The Horse Hospital : Colonnade, Bloomsbury,
London WC1N 1HX
by tube: Russell Square, Piccadilly Line
buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
The Horse Hospital is a unique arts venue in London
which has been providing a space for underground and
avantgarde media since 1993. We offer regular events
to our members showing rare film, music, and art, as
well as hosting a significant collection of fashion
items and related material.
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GIG
- THE HORSE HOSPITAL
4TH SEPTEMBER 09 @ 7.30PM £7.50
30 COLONNADE WC1N 1JD
WCMO
(WORKING CLASSICAL MUSIC ORCHESTRA) - JAMES' BAND
Cellorhythmics
WCMO ( Working Classical Music Orchestra) return to
the Horse Hospital after two years of performing their
groundbreaking Cellorhythmics Acoustic Project featuring
eleven exceptional musicians from the worlds of jazz,
classical and experimental pop. Their next venture -
"Squeaky Singles" - is a multifarious blend
of 50's and 60's pop instrumentals, contemporary classical
and jazz condensed into a 3 minute pop single format.
Also featuring guest artists - "Dave Hindermiff
and the Tritones" and Andrew Bailey, an extraordinary
surreal comedian, who will join WCMO for the premier
of "Nine Bagatelles for Chamber Group, bingo caller
and terminally ill patient". ALSO CHIARA AMBROSIO'S
NEW FILM PRODUCED BY MICHAEL NYMAN -
"CHARON".
Charon, the mythic demon sailor over the river Styx,
sets off on a journey to recover his mortality. He renounces
his role as ferryman for the dead and sails away on
a sea of oblivion in search for the archetypical home,
the mythical place of his childhood where he can finally
abandon his boat and die.
This film is about memory, mortality and time.
www.wcmorchestra.com
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Acoustic Project gratefully acknowledges financial support
from the PRS Foundation for new music |
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PICNIC
09: RIVER THAMES
by
Land Art - Papa Westray and Hermitage Moorings
The Circle - River Thames is a river-specific collaboration
work between artists IVANOV + CHAN and composer James
Hesford which will be created during 24-hours non-stop
working period/performance at Hermitage Moorings, River
Thames.
The
Circle - River Thames will be:
- The James Hesford's composition will be influenced by
the immediate environment, the extreme working conditions
imposed by a specific duration and IVANOV + CHAN'S performance
and working process.
- The Artist’s Dress - a costume for the performance
which will enhance the choreography of the performance
and will work as an additional tool in painting process
- The Painting Space - around tent – lantern structure
made of canvas suspended in the floating Pier House of
the Moorings
- The Painting Dance – spontaneous choreography
of the painting process reflecting the way in which the
memories and process are affected by 24 hours non-stop
action in enclosed space
- Painting - instant reaction on the memories about the
surrounding of The Circle and memories transformed inside
The Circle during the process, following by the flow and
transforming all previous experience creating paint-environment
- Video Work is created as an interaction with the Circle
Performace
and projected live
- Viewing the Circle Experience: After 24 hours performance
the viewer can enter the Circle
- Presentation of completed composition of The Circle-River
Thames by James Hesford
PROGRAMME:
> from Friday, 12 June till Saturday, 13 June : 24
Hours non-stop happening can be seen on the screen from
Wapping River Walk
> Saturday, 13 June, 18.00 - 21.00 : Opening
> Sunday, 14 June, 14.00 - 18.00 : Exhibition
ADDRESS
: Hermitage Moorings,16 Wapping High Street, London E1W
1NG
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