The line-up for our special Christmassy Noisy Night on 9th December 2013 in the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh has been announced! Submissions are welcome for scores written for an ensemble of Trumpet, French Horn and Trombone; all submissions must somehow include a well-known Christmas Carol melody. Audience participation elements are optional (although encouraged, as we all love a good sing-a-long). Santa hats are definitely optional.
As always, usual rules apply; All submissions (full scores, instrumental parts and any pre-recorded material) to be sent to John Harris at john@rednoteensemble.com by 5pm on Monday 25th November in pdf format (mp3 for additional audio). No submissions any longer than 5 minutes, please.
Looking forward to hearing and seeing it all!
We would be delighted if you were to be able to join us for the première of our next major production, Enough Already / Lâchez Tout by Francois Sarhan (http://www.fsarhan.com/) at 7:30pm on Thursday 7th November at Tramway, Glasgow, and afterwards for drinks.
Enough Already is centred around two characters — Professor Glaçon, author of an imaginary encyclopaedia full of wonderful, absurd, funny and uncreatable things — and Bobok, a fanatical, naive man who wanders around with the same encyclopaedia under his arm. Bobok desperately wants the wonderful things in Professor Glaçon’s book to be true, against all the evidence that they can’t be — and he is prepared to go to almost any lengths to make them happen. We follow Bobok’s journey as it begins on stage, and then becomes a silent film with live music and live sound effects. On-stage sound artists provide the accompanying slamming doors, footsteps and lorries passing by, and the musicians of Red Note Ensemble accompany Bobok by singing and narrating live at the same time as playing their instruments. More than a story, Enough Already is an all-embracing theatrical, musical and filmic experience. Come and let yourself be carried along in Bobok’s absurd, upside-down and hugely entertaining world!
This run of Enough Already takes place prior to Red Note’s 3-date residency at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2013, at which Enough Already will be performed, together with the World Première of David Fennessy‘s Hauptstimme, the European Premiere of James Dillon‘s New York Triptych, and Inconsistent Whisper by Torsten Lauschmann, which was premièred at the Counterflows festival in Glasgow in April 2012.
Enough Already is a co-production between LOD Music Theatre (Ghent), Red Note Ensemble and Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste.
We do hope you are able to join us!
With all best wishes
John Harris
Check out this podcast by our embedded composer in residence Tom Butler as he interviews Francois Sarhan! http://www.cadencewhenidie.org/
Join us on Monday 30th, 8pm in the relaxing atmosphere of the Traverse Theatre Bar, Edinburgh for some brand new music!
Thank you to all the composers who sent us their music and congratulations to those whos music is being performed on Monday night! Watch this space or our website ~(https://www.rednoteensemble.com/Calls_for_Scores.html) for further opportunities!
Your host for the evening will be our very own, John Harris!
Our performers will be:
Trumpet: Mark O’Keeffe
Viola: Liam Eoin Lynch
‘Cello: Robert Irvine
The Composers and their Music:
Charles Gaskell – Forty for Three
Dorian Kelly – Drip Drop
Euan Ferguson – Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool
Jay Capperauld – Restraint
Marcello Messina – Alleggiu
Norbert Stammberger – Epilogue
PLUS works by students at King’s Park Secondary School, Glasgow written for Noisy Nights Jr. at City Halls, Glasgow, 2:30pm Saturday 28th Sept!
What is Noisy Nights? Noisy Nights is fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for) the musicians of Red Note. Noisy Nights is a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space and hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer.
All sorts of music are welcomed here – as are all sorts of listeners. And, with the established 10 Minute Composer’s Challenge, the audience also get the chance to write their own pieces to be played by the ensemble after the interval.
See you there!
Red, x
Calling all composers!
Noisy Nights is fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for) the musicians of Red Note. Noisy Nights is a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space and hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer.
All sorts of music are welcomed here – as are all sorts of listeners. And, with the established 10 Minute Composer’s Challenge, the audience also get the chance to write their own pieces to be played by the ensemble after the interval.
This Noisy Night is for Trumpet, Viola and ‘Cello. Please send your under-five-minutes-in-length submissions to john@rednoteensemble.com no later than 5pm on Monday 23rd of September for possible performance on 30th of September at the Traverse Theatre bar!
Recap time:
DEADLINE: 5PM, 23/09/13
INSTRUMENTS: Trumpet, Viola, Cello
DURATION: <5 Minutes
WHERE: Traverse Theatre Bar
SUBMISSION: John@rednoteensemble.com
It’s been a long hot summer full of many wonderful things, and this Autumn brings, we hope, many more. To save you from total pleasure overload, we’re releasing all the information about our Autumn 2013 season in bite-size chunks. Remember “Fun Size” Mars Bars? This is the programme-announcement strategy equivalent of lots and lots of them in one of those huge bumper packets …
So, the very first Heads-Up is for the composers. If you’d like to write for our September Noisy Night (yes that’s this September!), please send us your music for Trumpet, Viola and ‘Cello by 5pm on Monday 23rd September and we will endeavour to perform it at the Traverse Theatre on Monday 30th September at 8pm. Usual rules apply – no piece longer than 5 minutes, you can include a “tape” part: everything sent (parts and score) in pdf format to john@rednoteensemble.com, please.
As ever, Noisy Nights are free, and fun, and a little bit on the fun side of the edge of reason, so please do come as an audience member to hear what everyone’s written – and have a go yourself with the 10 minute composer’s challenge during the interval (no previous experience of writing music necessary)!
One more quick heads-up:
Red Note is working with composition students at King’s Park Secondary School on Noisy Nights Jr as part of the Glasgow UNESCO City of Music Family Fun Day at City Halls . The line-up for this is exactly the same as for the 30th September (trumpet, viola and ‘cello), so if you’d like to hear what they’ve written for us, please do come by City Halls at 2:30pm on Saturday 28th September: http://www.glasgowfamilyday.com/city-halls/
And another quick heads-up:
Reels to Ragas, our ongoing project with tabla player Kuljit Bhamra goes from strength to strength – we’ve even recorded a CD (on Keda records – KEDCD41) – which is getting a pre-release event at Club Inegales, 130 North Gower St, London NW1 2NB, on Tuesday 17th September at 7:30pm. If you can’t make that, then Reels to Ragas is also visiting the Lammermuir Festival at the Bridge Centre, Poldrate, Haddington, East Lothian on Wednesday 18th September at 10pm http://www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk/event/from-reels-to-ragas, and then Westbourne Music in Glasgow on Thursday 19th September at 12:45 (lunchtime) http://www.westbournemusic.com.
Meanwhile, Framed Against the Sky continues apace towards its conclusion at the opening of the sound festival throughout September … follow progress at http://www.framedagainstthesky.com
And then, come October and November – many joys! (James Dillon, David Fennessy, Francois Sarhan, Torsten Lauschmann … and more!)
Another fun-size Mars Bar to follow!
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