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Digital single teaser from Max De Wardener's forthcoming album "Kolmar", LP out on 26th July. Released by: Village Green.

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For innovative composer Max de Wardener, music is a kind of time travel, a means of exploring the antique and the arcane and repurposing them for a forward-facing now. Classically trained, de Wardener is nevertheless renowned for compositions that explore everything from church organs to self-built instruments, as well as electronics and more orthodox chamber configurations. Palindrome, as the title hints, is a piece of entirely symmetrical music, its written score a perfect mirror of itself, repeating over four bars

Max de Wardener: Snowflakes (. 0) Max de Wardener (bass); Leo Taylor (drums); Tom Skinner (cloud chamber bowls); Chris Morphitis (guitar); Dorian Ford (Hammond organ); Edward Corn (French horn) Recorded 10 November 2004 at BBC Maida Vale Studio 3 This track also appears on the Max de Wardener album Where I Am Today. Muslimgauze: Baleh (. 0) The album Syrinjia was originally released as a 12" vinyl LP with 9 tracks in 1998.

Max de Wardener is a British composer, producer and t known for his scores for film and television and his work in jazz, classical, world and electronic music. Since graduating from York University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he has written music for film and television, including Pawel Pawlikowski's feature films Last Resort (2000) and The Woman in the Fifth (2011), and Jerry Rothwell's 2008 documentary Heavy Load. Inspired by Harry Partch, de Wardener has built some unusual percussion instruments for use in his compositions, including a Bass Marimba and a set of "Cloud Chamber Bowls". His work as a classical composer includes commissions for the Elysian String Quartet, the London Symphony Orchestra and a multimedia piece for the percussionist Joby Burgess. Where I am Today (2004).

This event has now finished. This is an archived page. Voraciously experimental musician/composer De Wardener, here, shows off his love of total sound experimentation that includes electronics and sonic art, tonight performing music inspired by eccentric US instrument maker Harry Partch who died in 1974. Creating sounds that range from the otherworldly whispers of his Cloud Chamber Bowls to the room-shaking boom of Partch's shuddering bass marimba, this will be an ear-opening experience.

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