The second concert in Southbank Centre’s Harmonic Series, on Sunday 26 February, features new compositions from Micachu, along with the music of Thomas Adès and Micachu’s performance of Alvin Lucier’s classic meditative tape work I Am Sitting In A Room. In this intriguing clip, Micachu explains some of her innovative composition techniques… Harmonic Series is curated by [...]
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During our Music Nation Weekend (3-4 March 2012), enter an urban jungle in an extraordinary mix of sampled sounds, texts and music brought to life by a young vibrant orchestra in Surrogate Cities. Listen to our Music Nation podcast giving you a taste of whats in store for Surrgoate Cities: Also during the Music Nation [...]
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On Sunday 12th February we welcome Vieux Farka Touré to Southbank Centre. This will be the only London date of Vieux’s UK tour, and is set to be a really exciting show. Following in the footsteps of his father, the legendary Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré, Vieux’s music combines funk, reggae and jam music with the [...]
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We’re excited to announce one of two headline shows coming to E4 Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre in 2012. The Vocal Orchestra, created by Shlomo, is a spine-tingling hour of incredible musical entertainment. A celebration of everyone’s favourite tunes using seven mouths, seven mics and no instruments! Combining jaw dropping human beatboxing, glorious vocal harmonies [...]
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Alchemy – Southbank Centre’s festival of music, dance, literature, design and debate from India, the UK and South Asia – returns for its third year. Opening the festival are Mercury-nominated Asian Dub Foundation with their ‘combination of hard ragga-jungle rhythms, indo-dub basslines, searing sitar- inspired guitars and ‘traditional’ sounds gleaned from their parents’ record collections, [...]
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