#scratch orchestra

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[jgthirlwell]

JG Thirlwell has been commissioned by Great Learning Orchestra to create a large scale composition, which will be performed live on March 15 2017 at Sodra Teatern in Stockholm. CM Von Hausswolff will open the evening with a solo set.

The Great Learning Orchestra is a collective of over one hundred musicians based in Stockholm, though the version of GLO that will perform with JG will be about 35 players in number. Great Learning Orchestra‘s model is based on that of Cornelius Cardew‘s Scratch Orchestra, combining musicians of varying abilities, from virtuosos to sound-makers. Their objective is to meet up to explore music with listening in the center. They work extensively with graphic, instructional and unconventional scores and the ensemble has a fluctuating size and instrumentation depending on the piece they are performing. JG Thirlwell has already created two graphic scores for GLO and has conducted workshops with them.

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra

The Great Learning

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[stressfm-podcasts]

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OSCILLATIONS #130: Cornelius Cardew Cornelius Cardew was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental music, explaining why he had "discontinued composing in an avantgarde idiom" in his own programme notes to his Piano Album 1973 in favour of a politically motivated "people's liberation music". Yet in his far too short life, Cardew made one of the most astonishing musical, social and political journeys in the whole 20th-century music. His student days were spent shocking the stuffy establishment of the Royal Academy of Music, giving performances such as the British premiere of Boulez's Structures 1A with Richard Rodney Bennett, and learning the guitar specifically in order to play the instrument in the first British performance the same composer's Le marteau san maître – as you do. He then became Stockhausen's assistant in the late 1950s in Cologne, where he was charged with responsibilities that Karlheinz scarcely gave to any other musician, allowing Cardew to work out the compositional systems of his piece for four orchestras, Carré. What makes Cardew's work so important is how pieces such as Treatise – with its 193 pages of beautifully rendered graphic score, each one a creative catalyst for the compositional and improvisational imaginations of its performers (such as Sonic Youth) or the seven paragraphs of The Great Learning – dissolve the distinction between a musical work and social action. ⊙⊙⊙ OSCILLATIONS is a show exclusively dedicated to vintage electronic music. It´s directed and presented by Astronauta Pinguim. You can hear it every TUESDAY & FRIDAY at midnight and at 6 pm (GMT) here on Stress.fm. related links: astronautapinguim.blogspot OSCILLATIONS: podcasts

[monsterbobby]

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Pilgrimage from Scattered Points is a film about the English composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) and the Scratch Orchestra that Cardew founded together with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton in 1968. The ensemble was made up of professional musicians and "musical innocents"; students, office workers, artists and so on. They conceived non-hierarchal forms of music-making and created influential techniques which are still in use today. Director: Luke Fowler, GB 2006 // 45 min // English soundtrack

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Culture File hears about Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra, which has inspired a film from artist, Luke Fowler.

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Listen to a talk about Fluxus artist and leader of the SCRATCH orchestra Cornelius Cardew.