Name: Chronochromatic Variations III
Start: 2024-11-30
End: 2024-12-01
Location: Camden Art Centre

Type

Events

Format

In the Building

Date 30 Nov/1 Dec 2024

Price £10/£8

Booking information:

Saturday 30 November, 7pm Sunday 1 December, 7pm

Jack O’Brien and Laure M. Hiendl performed by Octandre Ensemble

In collaboration with artist Jack O’Brien, composer Laure M. Hiendl presented the world premiere of a new musical commission over two nights. This work was a response to O’Brien’s site-specific sculptural installation featured in his Camden Art Centre exhibition, The Reward, in Gallery Three.

Organised in partnership with the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF).

Artists

Jack O’Brien(b.1993) lives and works in London and is represented by Ginny on Frederick. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: The Answer, Sans Titre Invites, Paris, FR (2023); To More Time, Lockup International, London, UK (2022); The Influence of Emotions On Associated Reactions, with Henryk Morel (1937-68), Polamagnetczne Gallery, Warsaw, PL (2022) and Waiting For The Sun To Kill Me, Ginny on Frederick, London, UK (2021). Recent group exhibitions include: Support Structures, Gathering, London, UK (2023); Memory of Rib, N/A Gallery, Seoul, KR (2022); Chômage Technique, Lovaas Projects, Munich, DE (2022); Something is Burning, Kunsthalle Bratislava, SK (2022); An Insular Rococo, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK (2022) and Strange Messengers, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE (2018).

Laure M. Hiendl (b.1986) is a composer based in Vienna who delves into the structural and medial dynamics of circulation-forward capitalism—digitality, acceleration, and demediatisation—and their aesthetic impacts on art music in the contemporary era. His works often explore sampling, particularly of scores, to craft new intertextual constellations from the vast digital music archives. The concept of the “animated still life” (Lauren Berlant) is central to his aesthetic, reflecting the immediacy and frenetic stasis of the current media landscape.

Hiendl’s compositions have been showcased at numerous festivals, including MaerzMusik, ECLAT, Ultraschall, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn and Sonic Matter Zurich. His collaborative practice involves exchanges with artists across generations and disciplines, such as singer Elaine Mitchener and choreographer July Weber. His music has been performed by many notable ensembles like JACK Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Garage, NeoQuartet, Yarn/Wire, Ekmeles, Ensemble NAMES and Ensemble KNM Berlin, with whom he has a long-standing collaboration. Hiendl’s accolades include the Rome Prize from the German Academy Villa Massimo, the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart, and multiple commissions from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

In 2022, Hiendl co-founded the Music Installations Nuremberg festival with Bastian Zimmermann, transforming music into performative spatial art, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Hiendl studied with Beat Furrer and Roger Reynolds, earning his doctorate from Columbia University with George E. Lewis on “Queer Composition.” He completed his habilitation at the Mozarteum University Salzburg on “Composition and Digitality,” where he now serves as University Professor and Head of the Department of Composition and Music Theory.

Octandre Ensemble
Our core repertoire focuses on music written after 1945, with an emphasis on timbre and ritual. Sound is an eternally fascinating phenomenon, and music can harness its power in ever more original ways: new music and ancient ideas.

In 2018, we will perform a series of three Composer Portraits at The Coronet Theatre, London, and we record for Frank Denyer’s CD The Fish that became the Sun, due for release on ‘Another Timbre’. The ensemble played at the 2016 Principal Sound festival, in a concert that was subsequently broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The programme featured UK premieres of Christian Mason’s Layers of Love and Claude Vivier’s Samarkand, as well as rare performances of Frank Denyer’s After the Rain, and Green Plastic Vase by the ensemble’s composer-in-residence, Sinan Savaskan. In December 2015, Savaskan’s Many Stares through semi-nocturnal Zeiss-blink (Module 30), a major Octandre commission, won a BASCA British Composer Award.

In 2015, we featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, we performed at St John’s Smith Square, and we collaborated with Darren Bloom, Kim Ashton and Lisa Illean in the new dots composer/curator project ‘Curiouser’, at Peckham Asylum. Previous festival appearances include Little Missenden Festival where we performed Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat in 2014 and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in 2016; and a residency at York Spring Festival of New Music (2012). In 2012 we also hosted an Anglo-French Composers Forum at LSO St Luke’s, London, in association with LSO Soundhub; we presented “Other Voices” at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine; and we performed “Medieval Modernist”, a programme focused on the work of our patron Sir Harrison Birtwistle

LCMF was founded in 2013 to provide a home for the promiscuous music lover. Since then we’ve presented nine critically-acclaimed multidisciplinary festivals and premiered over 100 works. Artists who we have commissioned and hosted, or whose works we’ve premiered, include: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Julius Eastman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, Mica Levi, Lina Lapelyte, Tony Conrad, Klein, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jennifer Walshe, Yvonne Rainer, Charlemagne Palestine, Elaine Mitchener, Rebecca Saunders, Glenn Branca, Moor Mother, Ed Atkins, Annea Lockwood, John Giorno, Laraaji, Timothy Morton, Bhanu Kapil, Toby Jones, Nkisi, Gábor Lázár, Maryanne Amacher, Cassandra Miller, CA Conrad, Christian Marclay, Joan La Barbara, Fatima Al Qadiri, Morton Subotnick, Maggie Nicols, Gerald Barry, Katalin Ladik, Rashad Becker, Tyshawn Sorey, James Ferraro, Anne Bean, Ragnar Kjartansson, Pan Daijing, Robert Ashley, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sophia Al-Maria, Michael Finnissy, Mark Leckey.

In 2016 LCMF curated the world’s first retrospective dedicated to the work of composer Julius Eastman. In 2018 we founded the LCMF Orchestra, dedicated to commissioning work by composers who’d never written for the orchestra before, to those whose work rarely gets heard in Britain and to ambitious, spatialised orchestral pieces.

LCMF is currently run by writer/curator Igor Toronyi-Lalic and composer/conductor Jack Sheen.