{"id":1973,"date":"2016-11-21T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2016-11-21T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:07:23","slug":"ensemble-paramirabo-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2016\/11\/21\/ensemble-paramirabo-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensemble Paramirabo @ Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by postgraduate Music student Harry Matthews.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/olly-with-ep\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1975 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/olly-with-ep-e1479742252199-1024x386.jpg\" alt=\"olly-with-ep\" width=\"660\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/olly-with-ep-e1479742252199-1024x386.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/olly-with-ep-e1479742252199-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/olly-with-ep-e1479742252199-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/olly-with-ep-e1479742252199-700x264.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/olly-with-ep-e1479742252199.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first composition workshop of this academic year, the University was joined by a group of musicians from Canada named <a href=\"http:\/\/ensembleparamirabo.com\/en\/index.php\">Ensemble Paramirabo<\/a>. The group flew to Southampton from Montreal &#8211; giving a workshop on three new pieces following their performance at the Music Department Monday Lunchtime Professional Concert Series featuring a new work by Lecturer in Composition Benjamin Oliver, <em>The Circus Animals\u2019 Desertion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After arriving into London and having a whistle-stop tour of the city, the ensemble travelled to Southampton and began preparing for the concert &#8211; despite suffering from pretty severe jet lag. The concert was very well received with a great turn-out for the first concert this academic year. Ben\u2019s piece was extremely challenging to play (for all the right reasons) and the ensemble produced a marvellous display of virtuosity both individually and collectively. You can watch the performance of Ben\u2019s piece here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yuNafCdRlkg\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/yuNafCdRlkg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yuNafCdRlkg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the workshop Ensemble Paramirabo played three postgraduate pieces by:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Millie Aldridge \u2013 <em>Places of Workshop<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMillie\u2019s piece focused on the ornate subtleties of motif and gesture, exploring sound structures reminiscent of Buddhist traditions. Millie\u2019s composition pays particular attention to the sounds of the shakuhachi flute \u2013 this influence was particularly prominent in this new work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/img_1191\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1191-e1479765747185-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_1191\" width=\"352\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1191-e1479765747185-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1191-e1479765747185-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1191-e1479765747185-700x933.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Olly Sellwood <\/strong>\u2013 <em>n\/a<\/em><br \/>\nOlly\u2019s creative use of technology has, to my mind, founded a wholly new aural experience with instruments that are normally so instantly recognisable. One particularly intuitive idea Olly used was to make a sampled \u2018second\u2019 piano so that he could produce the sounds of a prepared piano \u2013 think John Cage \u2013 but with the benefits of having these techniques on an electronic medium.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>myself \u2013<\/strong><strong> <em>actively listening to me<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMy piece asked musicians to be put into pairs. Each player was given an inactive and active part. I offered a set of parameters that meant the musicians would swap between these parts. I hoped to achieve an aurally captivating sound world, where the listener could dip into the sonic interpretations of each pair. In recent days I have been very fortunate to hear that Ensemble Paramirabo has selected <em>actively listening to me<\/em> as one of two compositions by UK emerging composers to be performed in Montreal on Nov. 22, 2016 at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ensembleparamirabo.com\/en\/index.php\">http:\/\/www.ensembleparamirabo.com\/en\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next workshop is happening on the 28<sup>th<\/sup> of November with <strong>Ensemble Nikel<\/strong>, and I really recommend that everybody comes along to listen to new works by our students here at Southampton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2016\/11\/21\/ensemble-paramirabo-southampton\/img_1290b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1982\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1290b-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_1290b\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1290b-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1290b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1290b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1290b-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by postgraduate Music student Harry Matthews. 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