Christopher Fox, Heather Roche - ... Or Just After

Heather Roche

IKLECTIK presents a programme of three thirty-minute sets featuring exciting relationships between music, text, and technology. Songwriting, electronics, and text combine in the opening set by The Fargions, a sibling duo consisting of Francesca and Giacomo Fargion. Set two consists of four short solo and duo pieces, performed by the Zöllner-Roche duo. Most of these pieces have been written in collaboration with the duo and they investigate the relationships between performer, instrument, composer, and audience. Agnon’s Feel Free is based on a Nick Laird poem and features the poet’s pre-recorded voice, bass clarinet, and live electronics. What Can I Do? sets Zöllner-Roche duo’s political agency as the main character of a textual-musical narrative.

02.10.2016 is the date of the day after the referendum on the peace agreement with the FARC in Colombia narrowly failed. Ana María Romano Gómez’s work for solo accordion and electronics is a reflection on what this historic moment enfolds. Sina Fani Sani’s piece was originally an exploration of the physicality of music performance, movement, and speech, but it accumulated meanings as the protest wave grew in Iran during the course of its creation. For the third set the Zöllner-Roche duo are joined by vocalist Peter Falconer.

Technologically augmenting the trio, the set is made of six original microfictions (stories written in three hundred words or fewer) by Rose Biggin and Keir Cooper set to music by Olly Sellwood. Each story is a separate narrative, crossing between recounts of fictionalised events, interventions in systems of living, and depictions of human relationships. Thanks to Arts Council England for supporting the development of work in this programme. Performers: Giacomo Fargion, Francesca Fargion, Eva Zöllner, Heather Roche, Peter Falconer.

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