New Sounds in Old Spaces
This year le weekend is venturing out of the Tolbooth into an exciting new space, actually a very old space, but new to the festival. The Church of the Holy Rude offers a challenge for any music project to utilise the vast spatial potential in its gothic structure, but the festival as always sees the space as a source of endless possibility. We have programmed two new and very different pieces to see how they exploit the ancient stone surround and symbolic space of the church.
The Church of the Holy Rude
Saturday 25 May, 5.45pm
One Day Pass
Three Day Festival Pass
This newly conceived quartet were an easy choice to ask to explore the possibilities of the Holy Rude’s cavernous space. The very different instruments that each brings to collective improvised sound and the way that each player then works their instrument into the space is sure to result in a very special and intriguing performance. Comprising of four highly respected players, each with a reputation for advancing the language of their chosen instrument, the overall emphasis is on a group sound with Wastell’s tam-tam guiding the course, working closely with Parker’s circular phonics in slow-motion melody.
Evan Parker – soprano sax
Mark Wastell – tam-tam
Graham Halliwell – electronics
Max Eastley - arc
le weekend festival, Tolbooth, Stirling, 23, 24, 25 May 2008
