In 2009 Matthew Shlomowitz, Tomma Wessel and I formed the Letter Piece Company with keyboardist Mark Knoop and guitarist Tom Pauwels, with support from the arts lab Pianofabriek. We made an hour long show featuring two Letter Piece quartets that Matthew and I composed together.
We performed this show at the Transit Festival in Leuven (October 2010) and Huddersfield Music Festival (November 2010) and we'll play the show again at the Chisenhale Dance Space (London) and Soundwaves festival (Brighton) in July 2011.
Here are video highlights from the Transit performance.
For more video's and fotos please have a look at the Letter Piece Company blog !
The complete programme:
Shila Anaraki / Matthew Shlomowitz - LP Quartet 1: Five Finger Discount
Matthew Shlomowitz -LP 5: Northern Cities
Tom Johnson - Narayana's Cows
Matthew Shlomowitz - LP 3: Australia, Bolton, Clinton, Dachshund & Echinacea
Shila Anaraki / Matthew Shlomowitz - LP Quartet 2: Mixed Doubles
We are now developing the Letter Piece ideas onto a bigger scale, and adding light design by Tom Bruwier, by making an hour long piece called A to Zzz for Vooruit (Gent) 2011/12 season.
We'll also play this work at STUK kunstencentrum, Leuven and Concertgebouw Brugge.
Since 2008 I have worked with recorder player Tomma Wessel on the Letter Pieces. They are a series of short duos for dancer and musician composed by Matthew. Here is a performance by Tomma and I of our first performance at Rational Rec.
Tomma and I have performed these pieces at:
Rational Rec, London (March 2008)
Festival Made, Gent (September 2008)
Kings Place, London (March 2009)
BRXLBRAVO, Brussels (September 2009)
Queen's University, Belfast (November 2009)
Korte Metten - Vooruit (February 2010)
Living Room Music, Klara Festival, Brussels (September 2010)
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