Electronics at Eight: Music for Magnetic Resonator Piano
- 8pm
About this event:
- Category:
- New Music
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free, no tickets required
- Date, time and location:
- , 8pm in Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Discover the Magnetic Resonator Piano (MRP), a remarkable electronically augmented acoustic instrument that produces shimmering bowed sonorities using 88 electromagnets.
Invented in 2010 by composer and engineer Andrew McPherson, the MRP is an electronically augmented acoustic piano capable of eliciting new sounds acoustically from the piano strings, without speakers. Electromagnets induce vibrations in the strings independently of the hammers, creating infinite sustain, crescendos, harmonics, pitch bends and new timbres, all controlled from the piano keyboard. The instrument has been embraced by artists including Rolf Hind and Arca.
Innovative pianist and composer Xenia Pestova Bennett, a leading exponent of the MRP, presents stunning new pieces for the instrument, including world premieres by Guildhall School students and faculty members. The programme also features her own piece for Magnetic Resonator Piano, ensemble and video featuring the Bauhaus Band led by John Harle and existing pieces for the instrument by Eileen McLoughlin, Anne Marie Deacy, Ollie Hawker and Tristan Kersten.
Free, no tickets required.
Programme
Xenia Pestova Bennett Glowing Radioactive Elements: V. Actinium
Eileen McLoughlin Waxing Gibbous
Ollie Hawker It's Not Something I Ever Thought Would Be the Case
Tristan Kersten Cylene
Hal Henson Point Zenith (world premiere)
Freya Wang Griffin (world premiere)
Joel Burton Matrix 1 (world premiere)
Rob Marr When I Was a Boy (world premiere)
Anne Marie Deacy Cosmic Stethoscope
Nye Parry Lament for a Sentinel Species (world premiere)
Lily Ou The Flow of Sand (word premiere)
Jonas Glöer No Strings Attached (world premiere)
Sam Wilson Slowwwww (world premiere)
Krzysztof Zubek arr. Natsuki Tanitame nv gs400 (word premiere)
Xenia Pestova Bennett GLOW
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
