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FROM
- SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2012. ON TOUR WITH "THE TEAR
THIEF LITTLE ANGEL THEATRE - THE EGG
BATH, LAKESIDE- NOTTINGHAM UNICORN THEATRE, AND ROYAL EXCHANGE
MANCHESTER
April
May June 2012 - rehearsing "Napoli" and touring
- WYorkshire Playhouse, Hull Truck Theatre,
Darlington and Scarborogh and Berwick on Twee.
March
April - 2012 Devising "The Tear Thief" - Little
Angel Theatre
March
April - Scoring for "Napoli" Leandra Ashton's play
- Flying Cloud and Turtle Arts production
Feb-
March - Oliver Cheethams film Belvenie
Whisky
February
2012 David Kew's film "Survey"
doco - see films
January
20121-Victoria and Albert Film in 5
parts - Chiara Ambrosio see films
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PGO (Pocket Guerrilla Orchestra)
Rian's Bar Church Street
Sunday 13 November 11
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VALLEY TV ADVERT
"AFTERSHOCK" OCTOBER
FILM BY TIM NEWTON - MUSIC SOUND DESIGN JAMES
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CHANNEL
4 DOCO
"SEX, LIES AND PARKINSON'S"
- by Oliver Cheetham (scored by James) - Films of Record
Production - showing Channel 4 August 12th 7.30 PM.
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MANCHESTER
ROYAL
EXCHANGE/LITTLE ANGEL
THEATRE - "The Tear Thief"
by Carol Ann Duffy- Devising - July 18th-22nd |
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ROYAL
FESTIVAL HALL
World Premiere!
"12 grand pianos in a large circle " 21May
2011- "Citerna Circle" and "Sham Shui Po Circle"
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Little
Angel Theatre & RSC
May/June 2011 - "THE MAGICIANS DAUGHTER"
- BY MICHEAL ROSEN - Scoring Recorded Music and Sound Design
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Video (Sound and Music) May 2011"Young
and Old Swap" |
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ARTISTS
RESIDENCY
Hong Kong
March/April
2011 - Sham Shui Po for 12 Pianos (to be premiered at the Festival
Hall in June with Citerna) Also commission for Sonic Poem Premiered
in C&G Artpartment
Kowloon. HESFORD,&IVANOV AND CHAN - circles and picnic
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Whitechapel
Art Gallery
- WCMO
Concert 17th February
2011
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3
short ads VIRLS FOR CITIZENS BAND. JANUARY
- MARCH 2011FRIGHTWATER
- RAPTOR ATTACK (HORROR) - PIRATE COVE - (ADVENTURE/HORROR) LIGHTWATER
VALLEY THEME PARK
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12
Grand Pianos -
Dec - JAN 2011 SCORING CITERNA PIANO PIECE FOR PREMIER
IN JUNE Festival Hall
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Kali
- OCT-NOV 2010 Asian Women's Theatre - GANDHI AND
COCONUTS
SCORING
FOR ABOVE - FIRST PERFORMANCE ARCOLA THEATRE AND THEN TOURING AFTER
CHRISTMAS - JAN AND FEB PLYMOUTH AND DERBY - GOOD REVIEWS.
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Chiara
Ambrosio
Two Films - SEPT
2010
Re scoring for exhibition
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Pablo
AUGUST
2010
Sound
Track finished
in August 2010still work in progress - final mix to
be arranged see "Film" for opening titles
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Citerna
July2010
movieHesford
Ivanov and Chan - 24 Hour project In
Medieval Fortress in Citerna Northern Italy - Plus Premier
of Holm Circle for Choir and Solo Violin
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Oliver
Cheetham movie trailer - Afterspace
- start today Saturday 7th November. Cool movie
Circles
Project
James has now completed 3 circle
compositions - Berlin One (two movements for 12 Classical guitars),Berlin
Two (for 12 Cellos) - London Thames Circle (for 9 violins and 3
cellos) GO TO PROJECTS TO HEAR NEW MUSIC
Trimming
Pablo
James
has been commissioned to write the Score for Tim Newton's new film
- " Trimming Pablo" staring Paul Freeman and Chris Fairbank.
The film will be finished later this year.
info: www.trimmingpablo.com
Polka
Theatre Production
James
has been commissioned to write the score for the new Polka Theatre
production - "Monster under the Bed which will open in June.
info: www.polkatheatre.com
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LIES AND PARKINSON'S
By Oliver Cheetham, Score - James
hesford Channel 4 12th August 2011
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James
with artists Ivanov and Chan spent a few
weeks in the Sham Shui Po district of Hong
Kong working on a "PICNIC' project
which included the 24 hour non-stop painting/composition/video
project . The above images were taken on
the roof of an apartment block in Sham Shui
Po, which is known to be the most run down
district in HK as well as being the most
densly populated are in the world. Our first
exhibition was at the C&G Gallery in
Kowloon. (thanks to all there) During this
time James sketched the score for "Sham
Shui Po" for 12 pianos in a large circle
which was based on "Sham Shui Po Sound
Poem" made from field recordings from
the local area. The Piano Circle was premiered
at the Royal Festival Hall with "Citerna
Circle"
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05.2009
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24
HOUR PAINTING AND COMPOSITION PROJECT –
“CIRCLES”
Friday 23rd October 2009, 18.00
- 21.00
Saturday 24th October 2009, 14.00 - 18.00
Ivanov + Chan and composer
James Hesford
will complete the 6th work of a series of
an international site-specific collaboration
created during a 24hour non stop period
at the Horse Hospital, London.
(Previous sites include Berlin, Papa Westray
(Orkney), London – River Thames)
The Canvas - a suspended round tent - like
structure enclosing the artist for a non
stop 24 hour period.
The Composition - created at the same time
period and site for 12 musicians in a 50
meter diameter circle.
The Video - created as an interaction with
the Circle Performance.
Viewing the Circle Experience - After 24
hour’s performance the viewer can
enter the Circle.
A completed recording of the composition
and score will be presented.
ADDRESS : The Horse Hospital : Colonnade,
Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX
by tube: Russell Square, Piccadilly Line
buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
The Horse Hospital is a unique arts venue
in London which has been providing a space
for underground and avantgarde media since
1993. We offer regular events to our members
showing rare film, music, and art, as well
as hosting a significant collection of fashion
items and related material.
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GIG
- THE HORSE HOSPITAL
4TH SEPTEMBER 09 @ 7.30PM £7.50
30 COLONNADE WC1N 1JD
WCMO
(WORKING CLASSICAL MUSIC ORCHESTRA) - JAMES' BAND
Cellorhythmics
WCMO ( Working Classical Music Orchestra) return to
the Horse Hospital after two years of performing their
groundbreaking Cellorhythmics Acoustic Project featuring
eleven exceptional musicians from the worlds of jazz,
classical and experimental pop. Their next venture -
"Squeaky Singles" - is a multifarious blend
of 50's and 60's pop instrumentals, contemporary classical
and jazz condensed into a 3 minute pop single format.
Also featuring guest artists - "Dave Hindermiff
and the Tritones" and Andrew Bailey, an extraordinary
surreal comedian, who will join WCMO for the premier
of "Nine Bagatelles for Chamber Group, bingo caller
and terminally ill patient". ALSO CHIARA AMBROSIO'S
NEW FILM PRODUCED BY MICHAEL NYMAN -
"CHARON".
Charon, the mythic demon sailor over the river Styx,
sets off on a journey to recover his mortality. He renounces
his role as ferryman for the dead and sails away on
a sea of oblivion in search for the archetypical home,
the mythical place of his childhood where he can finally
abandon his boat and die.
This film is about memory, mortality and time.
www.wcmorchestra.com
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gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS
Foundation for new music for their WCM Orchestra CAP Project
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04.2009
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PICNIC
09: RIVER THAMES
by
Land Art - Papa Westray and Hermitage Moorings
The Circle - River Thames is a river-specific collaboration
work between artists IVANOV + CHAN and composer James
Hesford which will be created during 24-hours non-stop
working period/performance at Hermitage Moorings, River
Thames.
The
Circle - River Thames will be:
- The James Hesford's composition will be influenced by
the immediate environment, the extreme working conditions
imposed by a specific duration and IVANOV + CHAN'S performance
and working process.
- The Artist’s Dress - a costume for the performance
which will enhance the choreography of the performance
and will work as an additional tool in painting process
- The Painting Space - around tent – lantern structure
made of canvas suspended in the floating Pier House of
the Moorings
- The Painting Dance – spontaneous choreography
of the painting process reflecting the way in which the
memories and process are affected by 24 hours non-stop
action in enclosed space
- Painting - instant reaction on the memories about the
surrounding of The Circle and memories transformed inside
The Circle during the process, following by the flow and
transforming all previous experience creating paint-environment
- Video Work is created as an interaction with the Circle
Performace
and projected live
- Viewing the Circle Experience: After 24 hours performance
the viewer can enter the Circle
- Presentation of completed composition of The Circle-River
Thames by James Hesford
PROGRAMME:
> from Friday, 12 June till Saturday, 13 June : 24
Hours non-stop happening can be seen on the screen from
Wapping River Walk
> Saturday, 13 June, 18.00 - 21.00 : Opening
> Sunday, 14 June, 14.00 - 18.00 : Exhibition
ADDRESS
: Hermitage Moorings,16 Wapping High Street, London E1W
1NG
INFORMATION : Land
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Acoustic Project gratefully acknowledges financial support
from the PRS Foundation for new music |
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