Free event
Frédéric Acquaviva
Cathy Lucas
Adam Starkie
Panellists consider the benefits of co-operation and grassroots structures, the need for resource-sharing and network-building, and the growing importance of artist collectives in contemporary music practice. Hosted by the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and its Franco-British fund for contemporary music, Diaphonique.
Frédéric Acquaviva is a French experimental composer and avant-garde sound artist living between Paris and London. He works with voices, instruments, electronics, film and body sounds. In 2020, he is awarded the prestigious art-music-radio Karl Sczuka Prize for his music ANTIPODES, being the third French composer to receive it after Pierre Henry and Luc Ferrari. His latest music Seminal for voices and 124 instruments has been produced by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and nominated for Phonurgia Nova Awards “Hors Compétition”.
Cathy Lucas is a Brussels-born artist, musician and researcher living in London. In 2014 she co-founded neo-minimal music collective School of Hypnosis, and in 2017 helped to establish orchestral jazz ensemble Haha Sounds Collective. Cathy also leads art-pop group Vanishing Twin (Fire Records, Soundway), and collaborates widely on London’s alternative and experimental music scene on voice, viola, saw and synthesisers. She is currently a PhD researcher in the nineteenth-century history of electro-acoustics at University College London, and is exploring ways of embodying and presenting sonic histories through sound and music.
British-born clarinettist Adam Starkie undertook his undergraduate studies in the UK and postgraduate studies in France and has been based in Strasbourg since 2008. Adam’s career has focused on contemporary chamber music and he has premiered new works throughout the world, working with ensembles such as Linéa, Accroche Note, l’Imaginaire, El Perro Andaluz, Zellig. In 2017 Adam founded the collective lovemusic along with the flutist Emiliano Gavito. As artistic coordinator of lovemusic, Adam had been organising collaborative projects between composers and the musicians of the collective.
Hosted by the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and its Franco-British fund for contemporary music, Diaphonique
Photo credit: Brian Slater
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