Soundwaves Festival 2008
Brighton & Hove 13 - 29 June
When Apartment House performed Acustica for the BBC in 2005 Kagel called them "heroes" for doing so. This piece, written in 1968, is still as radical and controversial as it was then. Christopher Fox writes: "If the result [of Acoustica] owes obvious debts both to John Cage and to the theatre of the absurd, its subversive critique of received ideas on what constitutes music and musical instruments is above all typical of Kagel, contemporary master of irony." Apartment House also performs pieces by British visual artists, works which call for a radical rethinking of sound and what it means to create it and which offer fresh approaches to the creation and interpretation of music today.
As well as Kagel's Acustica, the programme also includes works by Min Angel, Elizabeth S. Clark, Jayne Parker, Caroline de Lannoy, Joan Key and Sharon Morris.
