The Highest and Lowest Notes on an Organ - Experimental Sound Music Piece
Free entry
On September 20th 2014, as part of Open House London, Edward Henderson (www.edward-henderson.com) will perform The Highest and Lowest Notes on an Organ.
The Highest and Lowest Notes on an Organ is an open score durational piece where the highest and lowest notes on any organ are held down continuously. It explores organs as idiosyncratic found objects, fixed in different spaces – machines that produce sound on an industrial scale. It will be performed for five hours from 5pm to 10pm at St John’s Notting Hill.
Listeners will be able to come and go as they please, staying as long as they’d like and will be encouraged to move around the space including round the back of the newly restored organ. It is an opportunity to explore the physicality of the instrument, its relationship to its spatial and sonic environment and the nature and boundaries of your own perception. There will also be the opportunity to participate - listeners can perform the piece of music for part of the duration, holding down the highest and lowest notes.
Edward Henderson is a composer based in south London. He makes work with instructional scores, found sounds, found objects, repetition, duration, physical theatre and audience participation. His work on this piece has so far included making recordings (at St John’s College, Cambridge; St Stephen’s, South Dulwich; St Paul’s, Deptford; St Francis and St Mark’s, Camberwell; and St John’s, Notting Hill https://soundcloud.com/edward-henderson/the-highest-and-lowest-notes-on-an-organ-st-johns-notting-hill ) and 10-minute performances at Bastard Assignments events (www.bastardassignments.com) at Alessandro’s, Shoreditch (June 2014) and Block T, Dublin (July 2014).
Free entry
On September 20th 2014, as part of Open House London, Edward Henderson (www.edward-henderson.com) will perform The Highest and Lowest Notes on an Organ.
The Highest and Lowest Notes on an Organ is an open score durational piece where the highest and lowest notes on any organ are held down continuously. It explores organs as idiosyncratic found objects, fixed in different spaces – machines that produce sound on an industrial scale. It will be performed for five hours from 5pm to 10pm at St John’s Notting Hill.
Listeners will be able to come and go as they please, staying as long as they’d like and will be encouraged to move around the space including round the back of the newly restored organ. It is an opportunity to explore the physicality of the instrument, its relationship to its spatial and sonic environment and the nature and boundaries of your own perception. There will also be the opportunity to participate - listeners can perform the piece of music for part of the duration, holding down the highest and lowest notes.
Edward Henderson is a composer based in south London. He makes work with instructional scores, found sounds, found objects, repetition, duration, physical theatre and audience participation. His work on this piece has so far included making recordings (at St John’s College, Cambridge; St Stephen’s, South Dulwich; St Paul’s, Deptford; St Francis and St Mark’s, Camberwell; and St John’s, Notting Hill https://soundcloud.com/edward-henderson/the-highest-and-lowest-notes-on-an-organ-st-johns-notting-hill ) and 10-minute performances at Bastard Assignments events (www.bastardassignments.com) at Alessandro’s, Shoreditch (June 2014) and Block T, Dublin (July 2014).
Listen to the 10 minute recording made at St John's Notting Hill by clicking below. The experience will be very different when live.
