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The Hermes Experiment Performs Cage, Mira Calix and Alex Mills

The Hermes Experiment presents a new project in collaboration with composers Mira Calix and Alex Mills. The composers’ two new works written for the ensemble will respond to the improvisatory and unusually notated music of John Cage, and his student Christian Wolff. Following a collaborative process between the ensemble and the composers, the commissions will focus on maximizing the potential of the group’s unique sound world through innovative notation. The project will premiere at London’s leading contemporary music venue, Cafe OTO on 24 May 2018.

Winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards 2016, Park Lane Group Young Artists 2015/16 and winners of Non-classical’s Battle of the Bands 2014, The Hermes Experiment is a contemporary quartet made up of harp, clarinet, soprano and double bass. Capitalizing on their deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments, the ensemble regularly commissions new works, as well as creating their own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. So far, the ensemble has commissioned over 40 composers at various stages of their careers. The group’s recent highlights have included tours to Russia and Estonia, as well as debuts at Kings Place and the Southbank Centre.

“The performance was meticulously nuanced, witty and chic” The Times ****

“This clever mix of instruments is more versatile than you might first think” The Observer ****

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