Cee Haines (stage name CHAINES): Open Fund for Music Creators
New album-length work for CHAINES and GBSR Duo
The project is a fifty-minute electroacoustic work for the stage featuring multi-instrumentalist CHAINES and piano-percussion duo GBSR. The piece involves a procession of cryptids and monsters summoning a god to bring about the end of the world. It combines the beauty and complexity of amplified percussion, piano, celtic harp, guitar and vocals with the vibrancy and swagger of electronically processed sounds, synths and samples.
CHAINES (Cee Haines, they/them) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist based in Manchester, writing surreal and fantastical electronica and electro-acoustic music. Their album, ‘The King’, was received with enthusiastic critical praise in FACT, Boomkat and The Wire. Their solo live performance has been called ‘a mesmeric collage of ecclesiastical beauty and creeping dread’ by the Guardian.
Alongside their solo work, Cee has a longstanding relationship with the London Contemporary Orchestra, and has also recently worked with Zubin Kanga, Galya Bisengalieva, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Cee lectures in Sound Art and Composition with Technology (SCoWT) at the Royal Nothern College of Music (Manchester, UK). GBSR Duo – George Barton (percussion) and Siwan Rhys (piano) – combines two of the UK’s finest young contemporary chamber musicians. The duo has built its reputation on a combination of exceptional interpretations of the existing piano-percussion repertoire, committed performances of ambitious new commissions, inventive collaborations, and thoughtful recordings. Recent performances include Eva-Maria Houben at hcmf// and the QEH, Stockhausen and Aphex Twin at Bold Tendencies, Barbara Monk Feldman at Spitalfields Music Festival, and Oliver Leith at the Royal Opera House.