STAR QUALITY
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album VERSION - OUT 27 sep. 2024 : Discus MUSIC)
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Three artists, trapped in the far future of 2028, try to do what they can in a world where performance has become automated. How can they survive in these accelerating times? In this
'impossible opera’ for projection screen and a trio of live actors, the literature of Anna and Fyodor Dostoyevsky might provide the clue. Based on new music for modified guitar and soprano voice STAR QUALITY revisits the 400-year battle between music and words. Bringing influences from live art, rock and jazz, this is an exciting hybrid work combining innovation with mischief. Composition by Keir Cooper (from improvisations by) Ellie Westbrook
Libretto written by Rose Biggin & Keir Cooper Performed by the company Photography by Claire Shovelton Ksenia Burnasheva Will Edgecombe & The Other Richard Supported by Arts Council England Help Musicians Shoreditch Town Hall Chisenhale Dance Space Ugly Duck Shoreditch Electric Tête-à-Tête
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peculiar expressive niche with no other occupants I know of” The Quietus: Best of New Weird Britain Sep 19th 2024 Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival Cockpit Theatre, London Previous Iterations Sep 26th 2024 Motion in Frame with Petra Haller, Chisenhale Dance Space (excerpt) July 23rd 2024 Castle Cinema, Hackney, London Sep 27th 2024 Album released on Discus Music Radio Play Tom Ravenscroft: BBC 6 New Music Fix [ Superstar ] Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone: BBC 6 [ Willow Tree : A Dialogue ] Max Reinhardt’s Late Lunch Show: Soho Radio London. [ Love and Comfort (Baby) ] Space Is The Place [ Art Of Oblivion ] KOWS Radio: Feast On This Jazz (San Francisco) [ Modern Translation ] Radio Popolare, Prospettive Musicali (Italy) [ Of Now and Then ] Radio Panik (France) [ The Time I Gave Up The Stage ] Borguez (Italy) [ Willow Tree : A Dialogue ] Resonance FM - Ambrosia Rasputin Show [ Superstar ] MORE ON THE MUSIC HERE |
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