ALEX SMOKE (2 hour set) [Vakant/Soma]
+ GABRIEL PROKOFIEV
+ CLEAN BANDIT (DJ)
LIVE PERFORMANCES:
Penderecki 'Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima' (52 solo strings)
Ligeti 'Lux Aeterna' (16 singers)
Xenakis 'Peaux' (6 percussionists)
Nonclassical returns to XOYO in April with Penderecki's 'Threnody' (an
experiment in sound for 24 violins 10 violas 10 cellos and 8 double
basses) Gyorgy Ligeti's 'Lux Aeterna' for 16 singers (featured in
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) and 'Peaux' from Pleaides by Iannis
Xenakis (scored for six players and 44 drums) alongside
Nonclassical/Clean Bandit DJ sets and culminating in a 2 hour headline
set from Alex Smoke.
Conductors: Chris Stark / Serge Vuille
PERC'M (Peter Handley, Joseph Richards, Angela Wai Hui, Jonathan
French)
+ Olly Lowe, Jude Carton (percussion)
Singers and instrumentalists from the Royal Academy of Music, Royal
College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Trinity College
of Music, Cambridge + Oxford Universities