Vonnegut Collective – Tullis Rennie
’48 Hours – Adès/Rennie’ celebrates the 5th anniversary of the Vonnegut Collective with an ambitious project based around Thomas Adès’s Piano Quintet – assigning forty-eight hours to learn and rehearse this notoriously demanding and complex work, in preparation for performance and recording. Vonnegut Collective have commissioned composer Tullis Rennie to create a new work that responds to this process with an artistic impression of that forty-eight-hour trajectory; an honest representation of the ensemble’s journey as they grapple with this complex and remarkable piece. Rennie’s new work will incorporate live performance, sounds recorded from the rehearsals, and conversation with ensemble members. Presenting these two works side-by-side will provide a unique insight, connecting audiences to this music and the people who make it in a unique and enriching way.
Tullis Rennie is a composer, improvising trombonist, electronic musician, and field recordist. His work encompasses sound installation, community-engaged participative projects, multi-channel concert works, video, mixed media and live/improvised performances. He is co-founder of Walls On Walls with visual artist Laurie Nouchka, and a member of the Insectotròpics audio-visual collective, based in Barcelona. He curates the multi.modal label with Claudia Molitor. His work has been presented at concerts and festivals across 20 countries, alongside UK national broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and ResonanceFM. His writing has been published in Organised Sound and Leonardo Music Journal. He features on releases by Luminous, ZeroWave and Efpi Records.