Total Immersion: Continents, Computers and Electric Dreams

Date & Time

Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 15:00

Venue

Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.

Keywords: Contemporary music, Electronic, Young Musicians

Info & Ticket (www.barbican.org.uk)

Musicians

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov	Conductor
Carl Faia	Live electronics
Steven Daverson	Live electronics

Program

Steven Daverson	Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background UK Premiere, BBC co-commission
Misato Mochizuki	Intrusions UK premiere
Tristan Murail	Gondwana

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