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November 2, 2014

The First Law of Kipple, performance in London 381

Location: St. Laurence Church, Bromley Road, Catford, London SE6 2TS
Time: 16:30h, free admission
More information: http://automatronic.co.uk/

AUTOMATRONIC Autumn Series 2014, final concert:
Michael Bonaventure (organ) Huw Morgan/Stuart Russell (sound diffusion)
Works for organ and fixed media electronics by Robert van Heumen, René Baptist Huysmans, Michael Bonaventure and others

The First Law of Kipple
This composition for organ and 4-channel tape is inspired by Gorecki’s Miserere. It is based on a library of processed sound recordings of various church interiors. The piece is about creating order in chaos and crunching melody into noise. The First Law of Kipple is commissioned by the Orgelpark in Amsterdam. Almost exactly a year after its premiere, FLoK will be played as a performance by organ player Michael Bonaventure.

There’s the First Law of Kipple... ’Kipple drives out nonkipple.’...Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you to go bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up there is twice as much of it. It always gets more and more. No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot. (Philip K. Dick)

 

http://www.stlaurencecatford.org.uk/StLaurenceChurch.html
http://west28.nl/FLoK/

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