Icebreaker : Performing works by Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Angliss, & Gavin Bryars

Sat 15th Mar  
The National Science & Media Museum
Bradford 
BD1 1NQ

18:45 Doors 
19:00 Start 

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Time Loops is a temporary exhibition in the form of a performance featuring rarely heard historical electronic instruments. Three celebrated composers have created works for Icebreaker: Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Angliss, and Gavin Bryars. The space will be populated by Icebreaker members, their instruments, and music technologies, both obsolete and current.

The musicians of Icebreaker put the spotlight on particular instruments in the Science Museum collections. These include the Watkins Copicat, a cheap, portable tape delay first created by engineer Charlie Watkins in 1958, alongside the VCS3 and VCS4 analogue synthesisers by the Putney synthesizer company Electronic Music Studios.

Bryars will present a ‘Concerto Grosso for ShoZygs’, inspired by his own experimental practice in the 1960s. The ShoZygs are home-made instruments created by concrètiste Hugh Davies, which feature electro-acoustic devices installed within the covers of encyclopaedia volumes.

The audiences is invited to look and listen as sound itself becomes an exhibit in the museum space.

"This is a one of a kind...a temporary exhibition of sounding technologies (vintage and modern) in the form a performance with a fantastic group of musicians and stellar composers, in the Science Museum." Dr. Ed McKeon, Curator.