Guildhall New Music Society

calling all guildhall students - we're looking for proposals for our next 'installations' event in July! 🪂 deadline 18th May, see below for details 🥀

(pdf here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1um4rTByZrpgLmLSlp_yEWB00wZ7aFxj_/view?usp=sharing)

also calling all guildhall students: we're looking for proposals for pieces, and we're looking for composer-performers, both for our spring term event — see the calls below 🏄‍♂️

calling all guildhall students — we're looking for performers to be part of our experimental vocal ensemble for our spring term event! see below (deadline soon) 🪴

🥦 WINTER TERM EVENT 🥦

announcing ALTERNATIVE LESSONS & CAROLS - 6th Dec, 7:30

we're thrilled to present an evening of experimental text and sound and everything in-between at Pembroke House 🥦 hope to see you there! tickets are limited so get them quick ♻️

facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/409048074193995

tonight’s event is now SOLD OUT 🌷

thanks so much to everyone who has bought tickets, we can’t wait to share the installations with you!! 🐞

our next installation project for our event on the 8th of july is ‘circling back, circling forwards’, created by Emily Hazrati and Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh 🌤

Emily and Nazli are a composer-writer team on the Opera Makers programme. Their collaborations are varied and expansive, exploring narratives of displacement, social justice, biodiversity and more. Recent projects include the monodrama ‘Song for Sara’ (for soprano Eline Vandenheede), RED LETTER DAY for orchestra and narrator (written as part of the Illuminated River project), and their new chamber opera ‘Paradise Garden’, premiered at Milton Court 1st-6th July.

‘Our piece for the NMS Summer Event ‘circling back, circling forwards’ celebrates and reflects on our year of ongoing collaboration. By making a score based on illustrations from Nazli’s journal, with fleeting music and text commentary from both of us, we want to offer our audience words and sounds that are indivisible, deeply personal to us, and yet open to infinite interpretations.’ 🌷

catch this and more at our event on the 8th july !!! more info and tickets on the event page 🐞

announcing our first installation for our event on the 8th !!! 🌷

Emily Pahlawan Collinson and Anna Semple are a newly-established artistic collaboration, combining music with movement to create new dramatic work which disrupts the mind/body hierarchy.

They approach music as an embodied practice, and are also committed to generating material through collaboration, using skill-sharing, mutual care and support, and a non-judgmental attitude to create new work. 🐞

“Flora is a duet for viola and dancer based on the textures and characteristics of four different flowers (Dandelion, Rose, Snowdrop, and Ghost Orchid) and the gestures generated when drawing them. The piece explores how sound can be generated through movement, with the dancer and the violist moving together and interacting throughout the piece. Both the theme of flowers and the method of creating music through the body aim to centre ‘femininity’ in artistic practice, and all our work is driven by an implicit interrogation of traditional (‘male’) forms of composing and presenting music. By drawing our attention to the shapes, colours, and texture of flowers, we hope to focus the public’s attention to the natural world and to new ways of practising in a thought-provoking and tangible way.” 🌤

catch this amongst other student works (TBA!) on the 8th of July @ St Giles Cripplegate — grab your tickets now !!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guildhall-new-music-society-installations-8th-july-tickets-157989610177

🌷 SUMMER EVENT 🌷

calling all composers, creative people, performers, collectives at Guildhall - excited to announce our summer term (in person!) 2021 event plans 🌤️

check out the call for proposals below, we'd love to hear from you before next Friday 🐞

(you can find a pdf version of this page here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17l5NJqvWjWqgLZMQ8ugAflGsXBCaPHKK/view?usp=sharing or a plain-text version here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ilWGL_SE7D8a6qvQz_kt2wZAM3Mtcxwn/view?usp=sharing)

our final micro-commission is here!!! 🌼

‘don’t you dare go missing (those good old days)’ is a text score created by Audrey Wu, for Joanna Ward and her unique setup: microphones, loop pedals, record player, guitar 💎

watch this quirky, p***y piece here:

Audrey Wu: don't you dare go missing (those good old days)