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Latest news about the activities of the Raise Your Voice Collective.

Richard Scott makes a Raise Your Voice orchestra

Com­poser Richard Scott, who we worked with on his Ono­ma­to­poeia for our Feb­ruary con­cert last year, has mashed-up the re­cord­ings of Raise Your Voice mu­si­cians he made for that piece to create an ‘or­ches­tral’ elec­troacoustic com­pos­i­tion. Com­bining samples made in re­hearsal of Raise Your Voice’s string and wind players with samples of double bass, trom­bone and per­cus­sion from mu­si­cians in Berlin, the new piece turns the chamber sound of the ori­ginal into that of a screeching, full-on elec­tronic or­chestra. Click play to hear it:

Raise Your Voice featured in Sound and Music Artists’ Toolkit

Sound and Music LogoWe are pleased to have been fea­tured in Sound and Music’s new Artists’ Toolkit, a com­pre­hensive toolkit to help artists, com­posers and mu­si­cians build their ca­reers. Our con­tri­bu­tion is to the sec­tion about pro­moting your own events and we talk about how we’ve gone about real­ising our goals so far:

Through Raise Your Voice we hope to be able to provide a plat­form for music that might oth­er­wise go un­heard and in­tro­duce it to audi­ences that might not come into con­tact with it. To this end, our nights take place in venues where the stric­tures of clas­sical per­form­ance are broken down.

Check out the whole thing here.

Raise Your Voice @ FutureEverything

Raise Your Voice at Centro BarOur second night at Centro Bar took place on Friday 14 May as part of the Fu­tur­eEverything Fest­ival Show­case. Thanks to everyone who came down and made the evening such a suc­cess. Sorry to those of you who had to stand on the stairs, but it was fant­astic to have such a great audi­ence again! We dis­covered that Centro gets pretty noisy up­stairs on a Friday night, but for the most part the music prevailed.

For those of you who couldn’t make it or would like to hear the music again, most of the pieces from the night are now avail­able on­line to stream and down­load:

  1. I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life — Luke-Matthew Iveson
  2. Avian RiotsTom Coult
  3. Pas­sacaglieMartin Suck­ling
  4. Dub­steps — John Davies
  5. Richter VS DragonSteve Pycroft

The down­load comes with PDFs of the event flyer and the pro­gramme with in­form­a­tion about all the Raise Your Voice com­posers and players, as well as track-specific art.

Simon Bray kindly came down and took some photos, some of which you can see here. Check out Simon’s Flickr Pho­to­stream for more of his pho­to­graphy. Look how many people there were!

Raise Your Voice Ensemble Performing John Davies's Dubsteps at Centro Bar (Photos by Simon Bray)

Raise Your Voice Ensemble performing John Davies's Dubsteps at Centro Bar (Photo by Simon Bray)

Performing Martin Suckling's Passacaglie at Centro Bar (Photo by Simon Bray)Raise Your Voice @ FutureEverything at Centro Bar

Raise Your Voice Ensemble performing Tom Coult's Avian Riots at Centro Bar (Photo by Simon Bray)

Steve Pycroft and Al Sonar during Steve's Richter VS Dragon (Photo by Simon Bray)

The next Raise Your Voice per­form­ance will prob­ably be in September 2010. Keep your eyes peeled and in the mean­time, have a listen to our live re­cord­ings. Take care!