Iancu dumitrscu and Ana Maria Avram: C/D, S/D

Heads up for Julio:

Wednesday 13 April 2005
7.30pm, Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke's, London
BBC Radio 3 Invitation Concert

Helmut Lachenmann: Mouvement vor der Erstarrung
Helmut Lachenmann: '...zwei Gefühle...', Musik mit Leonardo
Luke Stoneham: Hip to Easter Island
Stefano Gervasoni: Antiterra
Iancu Dumitrescu: Au delà de Movemur (II) world premiere

***Free tickets*** available from 020 8576 1227 or radio.ticket.unit@bbc.co.uk
More info

anyone heard of stoneham or gervasoni?

http://spark.cla.umn.edu/schedule.html

so Dumitrescu actually spent a week in America performing his works (including "Galaxy") at the University of Minnesota and I'm only hearing about this now... was this the first time he'd been in the States?

I can't find any reviews online. did anyone go?

Author: Matthew Goodheart
Description: Surreal days in Istanbul

http://www.bayimproviser.com/interviewdetail.asp?interview_id=21

I saw him play in London about 10 or 11 years ago, a pretty outstanding evening. Can't remember what he played though. I have about 15 of his / their cds, I have to play them some more as I just tend to think of it as one big droning mass of dronesome drones, which I know isn't really the case. Terrible artwork though.

Could use a Wire-style primer on this guy. Volcanic Tongue just evoked him in the same paragraph as Henry Flynt, so I'm interested now, despite my usual disinterest in 'contemporary classical' and all of the connotations therein. Somebody school me!

http://www.discogs.com/Iancu-Dumitrescu-Medium-II-Cogito/release/496267
http://www.discogs.com/Iancu-Dumitrescu-Untitled/release/863904
http://www.discogs.com/Ana-Maria-Avram-Iancu-Dumitrescu-Untitled/master/466035
http://www.discogs.com/Iancu-Dumitrescu-Untitled/release/423271
http://www.discogs.com/Iancu-Dumitrescu-Untitled/release/1311283

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtAfF0LBJ4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CjcpIFwOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC02Wo2dBoc

http://editionsmego.com/release/SOMA003-1

ooh, may get that vinyl. Love Dumitrescu.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/video/watch-an-exclusive-video-of-a-performance-by-iancu-dumitrescu

wish I were in new york this weekend. these are not shows to take for granted:

http://www.millertheatre.com/events/ana-maria-avram
http://www.millertheatre.com/events/iancu-dumitrescu

Saw Iancu and Ana Maria do their awesome thing in Glasgow a cpl of years ago - he's perfected the avant-garde composer look like nobody else, too

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549_b/p019dh91.jpg

At a concert in London a few years ago with Hyperion he had a brilliant composer's strop at Tim Hodgkinson for doing something wrong on the bass clarinet, I guess. Dumi disappeared from the venue for a good half hour. It was all very uncomfortable and dramatic. Later he played back galactically cataclysmic computer pieces through a portable PA at irresponsible volume.

Classic, in other words.

RIP Ana-Maria Avram. This one really hurts, not only totally unexpected but recent pieces was some of her absolute best. I always loved early pieces like 'Zodiaque III' but that recent ED MN 1029 CD was ridiculous, and going through her soundcloud today on good speakers, I'm hearing myself yell at least once during every track

I might start with 'Metal Storm (Computer Assisted Version) for Stephen O'Malley' if you're impatient or just dive in

https://soundcloud.com/ana-maria-avram-composer-2

recent pieces were (always re-editing my posts until I miss changing a tense or plural)

:-(