New Album Released
The first portrait disc of the work of Andrew Hamilton has been released by NMC. More information and how to buy it is found here.
UK and USA Summer Performances
Hamilton’s work O.A.I.R. for solo piano will be performed by Eliza McCarthy at the South Bank Centre on Saturday 25th June. Further information and tickets are available here.
London Contemporary Orchestra will perform Hamilton’s music for roger casement at St.John at Hackney on Thursday 30th June. This concert will be presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Tickets for this event are free, but dependent on application. You can read more about the concert and how to request tickets here.
Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA takes place between 13 July and 30 July. Hamilton’s music for people who like art will feature as part of of Bang on a Can Marathon on 30 July.
Further information about performance times and festival passes is available here.
Dancehall by United Fall (Trailer)
How, Yeats wondered, can we know the dancer from the dance? It’s a good line, and an even better question. This new piece from choreographer Emma Martin, composer Andrew Hamilton, five dancers and three musicians sets out to explore the relationship between the dancer and the dancehall: the tension between what happens inside the body in response to musical stimuli, and what society imposes from the outside by way of convention and control.
Dancehall begins with the music, and the music at the beginning is skeletal: a chord on an electronic keyboard, held until it pulses with unexpected undertones; a heartbeat from the drum; flashes of cello so brief you wonder if you’ve imagined them. A dancer whose ultra-slow-motion movements recall the controlled fluidity of tai chi. – Arminta Wallace, The Irish Times
‘music for people who like art’ in Paris
‘music for people who like art’ will be performed by the lauded Ensemble 2e2m in Paris this January.
The performance will take place at 7pm on Tuesday 19 January at AUDITORIUM MARCEL LANDOWSKI.
Further information about the performance is available HERE.
‘music for people who like art’ at LCMF 2016
London premiere with Oliver Coates at Kammer Klang
RIGHT AND WRONG – The Music of Andrew Hamilton
In 2014 Irish Composer Donal Sarsfield wrote the first extended analytical study of the music of Irish composer Andrew Hamilton. This article was published Tempo Volume 68 / Issue 269 / July 2014, pp 30-41.
It explores the aesthetic ideas that inform Hamilton’s music, which often have as much in common with the work of contemporary visual artists and writers as they do with that of other composers. It discusses the particular sense of humour underlying many of his pieces, as well as his music’s use of common and supposedly simple materials, which are put in the service of new and original aims.
Donal Sarsfield, the author of this recent article on Hamilton’s work, is an Irish composer who enjoys recording, transforming and organising sound. His PhD in Electroacoustic Composition, undertaken at the University of Manchester, investigated how a concentrated perspective on one particular sound source has the potential to develop a perceptual link between the listener, the work and the world in which we live.
You can read the article HERE – follow the link and click on the red pdf symbol.
