‘DIALOGUES WITH RECORDINGS: DIGITAL MEMORY AND THE ARCHIVE’

‘DIALOGUES WITH RECORDINGS: DIGITAL MEMORY AND THE ARCHIVE’

Concert/public research event on Friday 10 March, 6-8pm in the Angela Burgess Recital Hall.

To coincide with the release of Digital Memory and the Archive on New Focus Recordings, Head of Postgraduate Programmes and cellist Neil Heyde and composer Richard Beaudoin explore their long-running collaboration, presenting performances of new cello pieces alongside the iconic recordings that were microtimed to serve as starting points for them.

https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/richard-beaudoin-digital-memory-and-the-archive/

Beaudoin creates pieces that use precise timings and information from iconic recordings as a source of skeletal information around which to construct new compositions, raising fascinating questions about the nature of interpretation, facsimile, and dialogue with past luminaries. In communing with the essential fabric of recordings that have touched so many, these new pieces bring those great artists on the journey with us. The sources range from a piano roll recorded by Debussy of his own music, through 78rpm recordings by Pablo Casals of Bach and Maggie Teyte and Alfred Cortot of Debussy, to Glenn Gould performing Schoenberg, Martha Argerich playing Chopin and Thelonious Monk improvising. Neil Heyde will be joined by doctoral student Yanyan Lin for the single work for cello duo.

(The cover for the disc is from a painting by the distinguished artist Glenn Brown (by permission) who also engages directly with artists from the past in his work.)

The event is free but ticketed. Please book tickets here:

https://tickets.ram.ac.uk/sales/categories/other-events/dialogues-with-recordings-digi