Listen To This: Oslo Sinfonietta + The Black Box

Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen plays both audiovisual puppet-master and percussionist for an unpredictable mixture of intricate rhythms and blasts of instrumentation, all led by a pair of mysteriously disembodied hands. Also featuring N.M.O., Seamus Cater and Berlin DJ collective Analogue Mutations.

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The latest in the Listen To This series, showcasing the frontline of experimental modern classical. The Oslo Sinfonietta are here led by Danish composer and installation artist Simon Steen-Andersen in a performance of his groundbreaking Black Box Music. The musicians are relocated to several areas amongst the audience, while Steen-Andersen plays both audiovisual puppet-master and percussionist. The titular Black Box – projected live at the front of the stage – is an amplified chamber where the Danish composer’s hands manipulate a variety of percussive objects at the same time as directing the Sinfonietta. The result is an unpredictable mixture of intricate rhythms and blasts of instrumentation, all led by a pair of mysteriously disembodied hands.

Straddling the Sinfonietta and Black Box performances (also featuring a piece by Louis Andriessen) are DJ sets from Berlin collective Analogue Mutations and Seamus Cater, who is joined by the ambient stylings of N.M.O. – a mixture of semi-analogue leftfield house and traditional Norwegian snare drum music.

THE BLACK BOX

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ANALOGUE MUTATIONS

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N.M.O.

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