16.11.2024

Open Space: Study of Slope

hmcf// (UK)

With Lina Lapelytė

Lina Lapelytė: Study of Slope 2024
Photo: Marc Domage

Composer in Residence Lina Lapelytė presents the UK Premiere of Study of Slope, inviting listeners to experience a polyphony of individual and unique expressions while shaping and celebrating a collective voice. The Lithuanian composer-performer will be joined by members of the Rhodri Davies-formed Common Objects ensemble to perform with a choir of local singers who consider themselves to be ‘non-musical’. Here, ‘non-musical’ describes a different kind of relationship not only to tonality and music, but also to the surrounding world.

In this performance, voices once silenced by Western musical traditions that exclude those who are considered to sing ‘off-key’ will be brought to the fore, overturning conventional categorisations. This live work is a musical meditation on queerness, beauty, silencing, and acceptance, constructed on the excerpts of Living in a Land, an essay by Sean Ashton which is a chronicle of a mind fighting its own oppositional nature.

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