Kettle's Yard: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
Two Pianos on two floors, by composer Orlando Gough and David Ward Specially commissioned and installed during the Kettle's Yard exhibition David Ward: Slow Time - previously unexhibited works since 1968, 21 March - 10 May 2009
Rushes from a forthcoming film about international Summer courses for new music in Darmstadt, Germany. The school began in 1946 in one of many attempts to regenerate the city following WWII. Composers such as Messiaen, Varèse, Berio, Boulez, Cage, Stockhausen and Xenakis taught on the courses over the years and the impact of the summer school on the new music scene is incredibly powerful as a result.
The artists David Ryan and Andrew Chesher have visited the school, interviewed young composers attending and explored the archives. The result is a film that captures the intense creative focus the courses inspire and also investigates and questions the relationship between creative processes in the past and present. It includes documentation of live performances, interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, young composers on recent courses and distinguished performers such as the Arditti String Quartet, as well as archival footage.
Paul Coldwell and Roger Wilson in conversation talk to accompany the exhibition Paul Coldwell - I called while you were out 27 September 2008 - 11 January 2009