City of Sounds: BLAST! A Sea of Percussive Wonder
City of Sounds Festival
Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
£7 (£5) (£3, BCU students)
Federico Demmer Colmenares percussion
Jorge Gregorio García Moncada, Marcela Zorro and Simon Hall live electronics
Jorge Gregorio García Moncada La historia de nosotros (The history of us)
Witness an explosive piece for large-scale multi-percussion setup, live electronics and spatialisation to envelope the audience in a sea of percussive wonder.
La historia de nosotros, a large scale 80 minute work inspired in a corpus of mythological and historical chronicles from the Huitoto nation, an ethno-linguistic group based on the Colombo-Peruvian Amazon region, depicting ontological stories that bring together the foundations of their culture. Four ancestral mythical beings are mirrored by the main pillars of the maloca, gathering sanctuaries for the Amerindian Amazonian culture.
These Cathedral[s] of the jungle shelter the ancient rituals known as the Historias de Nosotros [Histories of us], cosmogonic stories in which the re-enacting of the origins by the fathers of the community build the
entire cultural web that keep society together.
Enjoy this special collaboration between staff from the percussion and music technology departments of Birmingham Conservatoire and University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
City of Sounds Festival
In a city recognised for its architectural transformations, the City of Sounds festival is an invitation to remember, to celebrate and to look to the future of Birmingham’s rich music scene.
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City of Sounds: Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway
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City of Sounds: Galways Masterclass & Workshop
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City of Sounds: Conservatoire Brass at the Pops
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City of Sounds: Birmingham Citadel Salvation Army Band Gala Concert
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City of Sounds: Services for Education - Music Service Folk Concert
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City of Sounds: Two Trios
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City of Sounds: Services for Education - Music Service: Last Night at the Adrian...
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City of Sounds: Music to Go with BCMG and Via Nova
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Blue Coat School End of Year Concert
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City of Sounds: Mozart's Coronation Mass
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City of Sounds: Ex Cathedra - In a Strange Land
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City of Sounds: CBSO performs Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven
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City of Sounds: Fauré, Parry and Shostakovich - Charity scratch concert with Con...
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Jazzlines present Julian Argüelles’s Tetra featuring Percy Pursglove
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City of Sounds: Mozart, Ravel and a selection of BBC Ten Pieces
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City of Sounds: BGSO Hall of Fame
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Summer Chamber Music Celebrations 2016: Jazz - The Train and the River
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City of Sounds: The Atéa Wind Quintet
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City of Sounds: Shostakovich Quartets II
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City of Sounds: New Compositions in Jazz
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City of Sounds: Schubert Ensemble
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City of Sounds: Showcase Concert
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City of Sounds: South of the Line
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City of Sounds: Raising the Roof! Sutton Coldfield Choirs
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City of Sounds: Destruction Party featuring The Destroyers and The Conservatoire...
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City of Sounds: Stereo is King - featuring the Percussive Sounds Ensemble (Direc...
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City of Sounds: 'Farewell to the Past, Hail to the Future' Vocal Gala Evening
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City of Sounds: Reflections in Brass and Boult
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City of Sounds: From Bach to Berio
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City of Sounds: Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra with Special Guests
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City of Sounds: Elegy for a Concert Hall
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City of Sounds: Christopher Morley (Birmingham Post) talks to conductor Barry Wo...
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City of Sounds: Requiem for a Concert Hall
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