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Ether
Ether – Southbank Centre's annual music festival of innovation, art, technology and cross-arts experimentation – has long been presenting one-off collaborations and groundbreaking work from the likes of Kraftwerk, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke, and David Byrne.
This year it returns from 16 – 24 April with a mix of rock iconoclasts, rap trailblazers, audiovisual experimenters and contemporary-classical innovators. Highlights include Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio, Gil Scott-Heron, Chris Cunningham and the complete works of musique concrète pioneer – and formative influence on Frank Zappa – Edgard Varèse.
Events in this series
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Spirit Level
Enter the Ether Artist-in-Residence: Felix’s Machines
Wednesday 14 April 2010 - Sunday 25 April 2010
Throughout the festival, artist Felix Thorn will be based in Spirit Level, working on and writing for his music-making machines.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 16 April 2010
In this concert, the London Sinfonietta performs music which Varèse wrote between 1930 and 1960.
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Royal Festival Hall
Stereo MCs V The Bays + The Herbaliser
Friday 16 April 2010
One of the UK's most iconic bands, and with Mercury nominations, Brit awards and million-selling albums behind them, the Stereo MCs return to their hometown to open Ether in an event that takes ove
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Friday 16 April 2010
Steve Goodman is the founder of the record label Hyperdub and produces bass-driven electronic music under the name kode9.
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Foyer Bar - level 2
Friday 16 April 2010
In a collaboration between the London Sinfonietta and the Royal Academy of Music, new work by post-graduate composers is performed by an ensemble of musicians from both partners.
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Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 17 April 2010
An evening of music featuring premieres by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Philip Glass.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 17 April 2010
Taking cues from Edgard Varèse's complete recorded work, British electronic artist par excellence Robin Rimbaud - aka Scanner - presents his new score for John S.
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 17 April 2010
Celebrating their 20th anniversary with a series of concerts and projects across the UK, this unique six-keyboard ensemble perform a late night concert in The Clore Ballroom, featuring Graham Fitki
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 17 April 2010
A day of performances, masterclasses and demonstrations with some of the UK's leading thereminists coming together to explore and celebrate this pioneering instrument championed by Varese.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 18 April 2010
This concert includes some of Varese’s most powerfully condensed works for ensemble: Hyperprism, Octandre, Offrandes and Integrales are all short works which pack a huge world of expression and vas
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Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 18 April 2010
The astonishingly virtuosic National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain fields a gigantic orchestra to perform Varèse’s large-scale masterpieces.
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The Clore Ballroom
NYO Composers - Varèse Inspired!
Sunday 18 April 2010
Edgard Varèse has inspired countless musicians, including Frank Zappa - now it's the turn of the National Youth Orchestra's six talented teenage composers.
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The Clore Ballroom
Enter the Ether: Varèse Visualised
Sunday 18 April 2010
Catch an extraordinary array of Varèse -related film material across the day on The Clore Ballroom's giant screen, featuring some amazing short films as well as two contrasting and fascinating docu
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Level 5 Function Room
Sunday 18 April 2010
A diverse panel of speakers discuss the legacy of Edgard Varèse for contemporary audiences and artists.
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Royal Festival Hall
Monday 19 April 2010
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio performs a night of deep noise and features Lou Reed on processed and unprocessed guitars, Ulrich Krieger on tenor sax and live-electronics, and Sarth Calhoun on conti
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Purcell Room
Gil Scott Heron in conversation
Monday 19 April 2010
Gil Scott-Heron is one of music's true revolutionaries.
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Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 20 April 2010 - Saturday 24 April 2010
Due to overwhelming public demand a second gig has now been added on Saturday 24 April.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Broadcast + Micachu & the Shapes + Oliver Coates
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Acclaimed for their unique brand of atmospheric melodies and textured electronics, Broadcast are one of the UK's great innovative bands - beguiling and brilliant.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Will Montgomery and Owen Hatherley
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Will Montgomery presents a sound-art piece recorded and shot at the various locales in Elephant and Castle - one of the most contested public spaces in London's history.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 22 April 2010
The genre-trashing, visually spectacular Chrome Hoof perform in Queen Elizabeth Hall with support from tropical rockers Zun Zun Egui, before LA art-noise band HEALTH and superstar DJ Andrew Weather
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