Alpenglow - early bird festival pass

Event information

This is an early-bird festival pass for Alpenglow, a 3-day international improvised music summit mixing leading players from Styria in Austria with a wide range of top-draw musicians from the UK.

***THE FESTIVAL RUNS FRIDAY 24 - SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER. PLEASE NOTE THE FESTIVAL PASS GAINS YOU ENTRY TO EVENTS ON ALL 3 EVENINGS. ALL EVENINGS START AT THE VORTEX (6.00PM - 8.30PM) AND THEN MOVE ON TO CAFE OTO (9.00PM ONWARDS).****

Embracing a true spirit of experimentation, this extended weekend of performance will mix many artists who, until now, have never shared a stage together to create unexpected and unpredictable results.

Emerging from late 60s US and European free jazz and contemporary classical music scenes, freely improvised music has at its disposal the full spectrum of sonic experience from total noise to near absolute silence, from frenetic activity to glacial stillness and from focused solo performance to large group freakout. Just as in relationships between groups and individuals, there is the potential for danger and conflict as well as for concord and harmony. First time encounters can be particularly unpredictable. Alpenglow is conceived as a volatile experiment: a meeting of players speaking many musical tongues, some sounding with Apollonian poise, others convulsing in Dionysian ecstasy. Setting forth with the ecumenical verve of an interstellar missionary collaboration between the Society of Friends and the Ranters, the fate of this expedition will be resolved before the public gaze.

As well as suckling comedy politician and seven-time Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger, Styria (the Austrian state surrounding Graz), has produced a dynamic breed of experimental musicians as yet unknown in UK circles. Alpenglow will bring these players en mass to London for a head-to-head with the best of our free improvisers. This event celebrates the common bonds this band of players share through the creation of spontaneous music.

Artists performing at Alpenglow:

Annette Giesriegl, Steve Beresford, Allison Blunt, Gail Brand, Angharad Davies, Jane Dickson, James Dunn, Elisabeth Harnik, Seppo Gründler, Josef Klammer, Katherina Klement, Caroline Kraabel, Peter Lackner, Klaus Lang, Hannah Marshall, Hugh Metcalfe, Maggie Nicols, Lee Patterson, Michael Pinter-Koschell, Armin Pokorn, Heimo Puschnigg, John Russell, Henrik Sande, Chuang Se-Lien, Manfred Stern, Rowland Sutherland, Christian Tschinkel, Gernot Tutner, Mark Wastell, Andreas Weixler, Veryan Weston, Mia Zabelka, Martin Zrost

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Alpenglow is co-produced by Sound and Music (http://www.soundandmusic.org), V:NM Festival (http://vnm.mur.at), The Vortex and Cafe Oto, with generous support from the Austrian Cultural Forum London.