Just got out from hearing nearly all of The Game of Life Foundation's Wave Field Synthesis performance of Sternenrest. Very impressive rig comprising 192 speakers arranged around the audience. Well, most of the audience - I arrived late thanks to a doctor's appointment and had to sit outside the main area. Never mind. I think I got most of what was going on: random-sounding scratchy noises being moved around the audience accompanied by a guitar, then a percussionist playing a bunch of glassware and finally an ensemble. Nice meditative stuff, supposedly derived from measurements of a star. Nice concept.
The other thing this morning was Nicola Sani's AchaB, skronking solo clarinet of varying magnitudes (regular, bass and contra-bass) accompanied by / accompanying noises and video projections. I really enjoyed AchaB 2 - good visuals and noises and not too annoying a clarinet part. The others were less interesting to me.
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