Over the last 2 years, Readipop’s creative director and co-founder Gavin Lombos has been undertaking a Music M.A. at Oxford Brookes University in order to reflect on 30 years of personal and Readipop practice. His focus has been on Electro-Acoustic music, Sound Art/Sonic Art and experimental composition and how this informs and connects with Readipop’s community music practice and methodology.
This event presents his final experimental composition alongside the work of fellow students.
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY MUSIC M.A. EVENT 2023
GAVIN LOMBOS
JAROSLAV FRONĚK
JON SAMSWORTH
Sonic Art & Experimental Music.
Friday 22nd September 3-7.30PM.
6PM – Performances / Artist Q&A.
Richard Hamilton Building.
Headington Rd. Oxford OX3 0BP
All welcome.
Free entry.
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY MUSIC M.A. EVENT 2023
Open 3.00 to 7.30PM – Sound Art Installations
Gavin Lombos is an artist based in Oxfordshire UK working in the fields of music, sonic art, recording/production, experimental composition, community music & participatory arts.
SOUNDARTFLUXUS?
Event score/installation. Realisations of Fluxus inspired event score that invite you to participate in unique sonic experiences at the intersections of music, sound art and experimental composition.
The work invites experiences of thinking, playing, listening, cooperating & collaborating prompted by event cards scores.
Dangle/Duet – Event cards, clothes rail, coat-hangers and string.
Piano/Wire video – Audio & video piece created from a Soundartfluxus? event (10 mins).
Piano/Wire II – Event card composition presented as a Sound Art installation.
Jaroslav Froněk is an emerging postmodern, avant-garde influenced artist, who is not afraid of non-conventional approaches towards contemporary music making. He is known for his indulgence in formal experiments as well as ambitious multi – level concepts behind his pieces.
Musical Chess Board.
A musical chess board installation that generates sounds in minimalist style in real-time based on the players moves and position of the pieces on the chess board.
From 6.00 to 7.30PM – Performances and Q&A
Jon Samsworth creates adventurous music, falling somewhere between the boundaries. At this event he is presenting two pieces of work created for the MA which both relinquish elements of full compositional control.
MUSC7006 is a near-completely graphic score, which plays with the musicality of maps and the map-like nature of notation. It can be responded to equally by both musicians and other creative artists. At this event it will be performed for the first time by the experimental musician Mark Browne on ‘sax-ph0nes and snare drum’.
Restructured Disasters is a piece for three musicians and a computer controlled percussion machine built by Jon Samsworth. The music moves from tightly structured towards areas where the instrumentalists and the machine are given increasing capacity to generate material through improvisation and chance operations. The (human) performers are Charlie Wickham – bass, Malcolm Smith – piano and Jon Samsworth – guitar.
Additional live performances
by Alessandra Palidda and Lou Bailey on recorders.
Anonymous, Capricio in D minor from Fifteen solos by eighteenth-century composers
G.P. Telemann, Duo III from Six duos for treble recorders (1752)
G.P. Telemann, Presto from Canonic Sonata IV