Name: Urban Birds
Start: 2022-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Southbank Centre

Organization

Southbank Centre

Urban Birds

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Urban Birds Arlene Sierra

Public

Genehmigt

Accordionist

Instrument

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Andere

Bühnenbild

Chor

Chordirektion

Choreographie

Chorus Director

Dirigat

Dramaturgie

Extra

GesangslehrerIn

Haar

Illustrator

Komposition

Korrepetition

Kostümbild

Lehrer

Leitender Produzent

Libretto

Lichtgestaltung

Maske

Orchester

Orchestra Operations

Photographer

Poet

Regie

Rundfunk

Schauspiel

Stage Manager

Tongestaltung

Tänzer

Videogestaltung

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Übersetzung

Bass

Sänger

Bariton

Bass-Bariton

Countertenor

Tenor

Mezzosopran

Sopran

Alto

Continuo

Kinderstimme

Sprechrolle

Stumme Rolle

Arlene Sierra is a composer of orchestral and chamber music whose compositional beginnings were in the electroacoustic field.

Urban Birds is a return to Sierra's electroacoustic roots, and brings together three international soloists who specialise in new music for piano plus electronics.

Urban Birds combines harmony, rhythmic drive and sounds from nature in a tapestry of environmental sound and virtuosic performance, engaging musically with our relationship with the natural world.

The piece employs recordings of birds that range in the UK, specifically Wales: the blackcap, the skylark and the cuckoo.

The recordings are part of the musical texture, with samples functioning as integral musical elements in the evolving structure of the work.

The three pianists play material that imitates and answers the birdsong, and they have specific roles as well: one soloist doubles on percussion, one plays the strings inside the piano, while another part interacts with a recorded Yamaha Disklavier piano.

Urban Birds is in three movements, performed attacca:

1. Sylviid Babblers. This movement features the extended songs of the blackcap, with answers from related species known collectively as Sylviid Babblers, as well as from the pianos and a single crotale.

2. Skylark Loops. A looped fragment of the skylark's song is transcribed, manipulated and repeated with percussive contributions from stopped piano strings and woodblock.

3. Cuculus-cornuta. Cuckoo calls dominate this movement, punctuated by the guiro, until rogue elements are introduced in the form of an extended passage for pre-programmed Disklavier and the call of a very different bird: the South American Horned Screamer.

English

Urban Birds by Sierra, A., Ab (2022/2022), Southbank Centre, London, Vereinigtes Königreich

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