MICACHU TALKS ABOUT SAWING WOOD FOR HER NEW COMPOSITION IN HARMONIC SERIES

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 [...]

A pulsing jungle is created live on stage

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 [...]

Vieux Farka Touré comes to Southbank Centre

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 [...]

Introducing…The Vocal Orchestra, created by beatboxer Shlomo

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 [...]

Barry Adamson – New album stream

The Manchester-born multi-instrumentalist Barry Adamson is heading back to Southbank Centre tomorrow at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Thursday 9 February) to celebrate the launch of his new album I Will Set You Free. Here are some facts that you should know: – He was an original member of  Magazine, a band that was at the forefront of the [...]

Alchemy Festival: Asian Dub Foundation

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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