Isambard Khroustaliov and the London Sinfonietta

I’ve been very fortunate to be selected for the London Sinfonietta’s ‘Writing The Future‘ scheme. Six of us have been paired with musicians from the Sinfonietta to realise a solo piece that will be performed and recorded sometime in 2011. I chose to write for percussion and have started collaborating with David Hockings on the piece, which although in its infancy has already witnessed a myriad of percussion items harnessed to evoke a maelstrom of digital rituals that seem to accompany our every virtual intervention. (Photo by Chris Harrison)

2011

To all of you who have found your way here courtesy of The Liminal – a hearty welcome! To those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about – an equally hearty welcome and a recommendation to partake in the pleasures of London’s latest, er ‘liminal’ music blog, where you can currently find an interview with Icarus and a mix featuring a collection of new music coming out on Not Applicable this year.


01 Not Applicable Mix – Icarus by The Liminal on Mixcloud

We’re very excited about the fact that 2011 appears to be shaping up to be a bumper year for Not Applicable releases. Following on from ‘In Thunder Rise‘ and ‘Three Improvisations‘, both released in the winter of 2010, we have an extremely optimistic schedule of one release per month for the next four months.

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Upcoming in 2011:

NOT016 – Tom Arthurs / Miles Perkin / Yorgos Dimitriadis – Glue

NOT017 – Isambard Khroustaliov / Philippe Pannier – Chaleur

NOT018 – Ollie Bown / Brigid Burke – Erase

NOT019 – Tom Arthurs / Ollie Bown / Isambard Khroustaliov / Lothar Ohlmeier – Long Division

Flat Home

Created for the Not Applicable Artists Festival in Berlin this summer by Martin Hampton (shot in and around his native Somerset, navigating the shores of the Bristol Channel and further afield), Flat Home received two screenings with different combinations of instrumentalists improvising to it on each night. The resulting soundtrack is a hybrid of the two:

Flat Home – A film by Martin Hampton

Music improvised to the film on two successive nights during the Not Applicable Artists Festival of Experimental Music and Film, Berlin 2010.

Finnlandzentrum – Tuesday 7th September 2010

Stevko Busch – piano
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet
Tom Arthurs – trumpet
Isambard Khroustaliov – computer

Babette – Wednesday 8th September 2010

Tobias Klein – bass clarinet
Kai Wolff – computer
Roy Caroll – electronics
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet
Maurizio Ravalico – percussion
Rudi Fischerlehner – drumkit
Tom Arthurs – trumpet
Isambard Khroustaliov – computer

Recorded and mixed by Isambard Khroustaliov.
Music edited by Isambard Khroustaliov with Martin Hampton.