Aaron Cassidy: New Music 20×12
Commissioned by:
EXAUDI
Event date:
13-15th July 2012
Event venue:
Southbank Centre, London
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EXAUDI is excited to celebrate its 10th Birthday with this major new work from Aaron Cassidy, Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of Huddersfield. Since its debut in 2002, EXAUDI has emerged as one of Britain’s leading contemporary music ensembles, with an international presence at the cutting edge of new music. Cassidy is a composer with a growing worldwide reputation, with works programmed at major festivals including Donaueschingen, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield, Darmstadt and Gaudeamus.
His new work will extend his research into performative physicality, choreography, and tablature notation systems, seeking to generate an entirely new soundworld for the human voice by exploring extended vocal techniques developed through a separation of the physiological components of singing. Air flow, tension and resistance of the vocal folds, mouth shape, tongue position, etc. will become gesturally independent, with sounding results emerging from the interaction of physical gestural models and constraints on available physiological actions and intensities.
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