{"id":6720,"date":"2015-06-01T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2015-06-01T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T10:01:25","slug":"singing-the-ringing-changes-new-commission-celebrates-summer-music-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/01\/singing-the-ringing-changes-new-commission-celebrates-summer-music-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing the Ringing Changes: new commission celebrates Summer Music Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Summer Music Week set to begin this Sunday, we’ve a week-long series of musical events celebrating the end of the musical year here at Kent; one of the highlights will be a performance on Friday 12 June<\/strong> of Ringing Changes<\/em><\/strong>, a\u00a0Music department commission written especially for the University’s fiftieth-anniversary celebrations this year.<\/p>\n

Part of the celebrations focus on the creativity of members of the University community, and Ringing Changes<\/em> is a genre-busting, multi-media experience written for the University Chamber and Cecilian Choirs, piano, harp and electronics by composer Matthew King<\/strong>, to words by Patricia Debney<\/strong> from the School of Creative Writing, inspired by landscape photography by Deputy Director of Research Services, Phil Ward<\/strong>. The piece combines live performers with a shimmering electronic tapestry that will pick up and re-imagine live sounds captured during the performance, creating a sonic stained-glass window that responds to and refracts the music as the piece unfolds;\u00a0during each electronic interlude.\u00a0each photograph that has inspired a response from both poet and composer will be projected above the heads of the performers<\/p>\n

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Image: Phil Ward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first half of the concert includes choral music by Tallis, Lassus, Sch\u00fctz and Monteverdi’s\u00a0joyous Beatus Vir<\/em>, and it’s very exciting to be combining great figures of the choral tradition with a piece that brings that same tradition right up to date. It’s what universities are about – exploring new territory, creative collaboration, new directions; the piece promises to be a landmark addition to\u00a0the University’s fiftieth-year celebrations and to Summer Music Week itself.<\/p>\n

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From image to poem: Patricia Debney’s working process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Read more about the Ringing Changes <\/em>project on the blog here<\/strong><\/a>; details and tickets for the concert on Friday 12 June here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n