Manchester Collective: SERENITY 2.0
A nervous system reset features a new work by multi-faceted artist Nabihah Iqbal, her first classical commission for string quartet and electronics.
One minute, the sound vibrates through you, your hairs pulled on end. The next: a blissful calm descends. There’s furious amplified sound and then mysterious, holy light to slow the pulse back down…
Ever felt overstimulated by your phone screen? Ben Nobuto’s SERENITY 2.0 is a glitched-out collage of frenzied strings, percussion and samples.
It cycles restlessly through Japanese pop, news anchors and vocal-fried YouTubers – but the calm after the doomscrolling is worth the ride.
Musician and DJ Nabihah Iqbal has a similarly eclectic approach to art and music. Her work takes her everywhere, from Boiler Room raves to the Turner Prize.
What Psyche Felt, Iqbal’s first classical commission for string quartet and electronics, takes its title from a poem by John Keats, mirroring the Romantic poet’s effusive enthusiasm for the beauty of nature.
The finale? Eric Prydz’s colossal house anthem ‘Opus’, reimagined.
What Psyche Felt is commissioned by Manchester Collective with support from their Commissioning Club.
Performers
Manchester Collective
Rakhi Singh violin
Julian Azkoul violin
Alex Mitchell viola
Nick Trygstad cello
Beibei Wang percussion
Nabihah Iqbal electronics
Repertoire
Bryce Dessner: Aheym (Homeward)
Nabihah Iqbal: What Psyche Felt (London premiere)
Sebastian Gainsborough (Vessel): Squint
Interval
Ben Nobuto: SERENITY 2.0
Dobrinka Tabakova: Insight
Eric Prydz: Opus arr. Ben Nobuto
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