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13:00 Sun 23 Feb 2025 Milton Court, London
What’s On: BBC What’s On: Barbican What’s On: GSMD Handbook Poem All watched over by machines of loving grace
The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – “symphonic” in the ancient Greek meaning “harmonious”.
“I sit here on the perfect end of a star / watching light pour itself toward me…” When electronics or pre-recorded sounds combine with human voices, they start to fuse and metamorphose, opening new horizons and creating sounds that neither could achieve unaided. For the Lithuanian composer Juste Janulyte, it’s a chance for creative dialogue - both with the musical past and with any number of possible futures.
So, what more poetic way to begin our Total Immersion than in the wonderland of symphonic electronics? Then the young professional voices of the Guildhall Session Singers join student and staff producers/composers of the Guildhall’s Electronic & Produced Music Department for the world premiere of an exciting new collaborative song cycle of 12 ‘moments’ for 12 voices and electronics.
Programme note © Mike Roberts
“I sit here on the perfect end of a star / watching light pour itself toward me…” When electronics or pre-recorded sounds combine with human voices, they start to fuse and metamorphose, opening new horizons and creating sounds that neither could achieve unaided. For the Lithuanian composer Juste Janulyte, it’s a chance for creative dialogue - both with the musical past and with any number of possible futures.
So, what more poetic way to begin our Total Immersion than in the wonderland of symphonic electronics? Then the young professional voices of the Guildhall Session Singers join student and staff producers/composers of the Guildhall’s Electronic & Produced Music Department for the world premiere of an exciting new collaborative song cycle of 12 ‘moments’ for 12 voices and electronics.
Programme note © Mike Roberts
This concert is being recorded for broadcast in episodes of BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show (Saturdays at 10.30 pm) later this spring.
The track and accompanying video will be released following their premiere on BBC Radio 3.
Piece Credit: In the Forest of Machines and Pines BY Eleanor Lee (With Lucy Joy)
Produced by Eleanor Lee
Voice by Lucy Joy
Chorus by Lucy Joy, Eleanor Lee
Mixed and Mastered by Eleanor Lee
Concert Credit
Director | Jonathan Manners
Ensemble Manager | Ellie Sperling
Assistant Choral Manager | Eve Machin
Sound projection | Sam Dinley
Composers | Tom Alchin, Jasper Burchell, Annie Chown, Lauren Eley, Stella Franke, Jonathan Goldsmith, Richard Griffith, Xuanni He, Frankie Hewett, Daniel Ho, Taha Kagzi, Eleanor Lee, Sam Moss, Alban Nolan, Izzy Pulman-Jones, Niko Ratledge, Mike Roberts, Manish Sanga, Eva Scott, Ben Seebaran, Dáire Toal, Roman Vooglaid, Eleanor Weavers
Soloists | Cass Begg, Tiger-Lily Jonathan, Lucy Joy, James Walker
Sopranos | Anna-Lena Delger, Emily Kent, Rosa Witts
Altos | Daisy Lihoreau, Tara Minton, Alex Moss
Tenors | Evie Atkin, Owen Butcher, Barnaby Wynter
Basses | Charles Broad, Chyaro Hylton, Joseph Lee
Principal Guest Conductors | Bob Chilcott, Owain Park
Associate Conductor | Nicholas Chalmers
Artist in Residence | Eric Whitacre
Associate Composer | Roderick Williams
Artists in Association | Anna Lapwood Abel Selaocoe
Partner Choir | National Youth Choir
Sopranos | Rebecca Lea, Laura Oldfield, Olivia Robinson
Altos | Cathy Bell, Lucy Goddard, Ciara Hendrick
Tenors | Ben Alden, James Robinson, Sam Jenkins
Basses | Charles Gibbs, Tom Lowen, Stuart O’Hara
Co-produced by the Barbican and BBC Symphony Orchestra