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COMPOSER
CURATOR
Alex Groves
Alex Groves is an Ivor Novello-nominated composer and curator working across contemporary classical and electronic music. Taking inspiration from queer club culture, abstract art and the natural world, his music often combines classical instrumentalists with live-processed electronics to create richly-detailed and all-consuming soundworlds.
lovemusic perform Alula
in Strasbourg
Strasbourg-based new music collective lovemusic will be premièring a new viola arrangement of Alula on Sunday 1 February at Lieu d'Europe in a concert inspired by Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening practice. Immerse yourself in a programme of works that each take the drone as their starting point, including music by Alvin Lucier, Darcy Copeland, Bára Gísladóttir and Zeynep Toroman.
Chamber Choir Ireland
perform Stream and Pool
On Saturday 7 February, Chamber Choir Ireland and conductor Ellie Slorach give the Irish première of Stream and Pool at the Pepper Canister Church in Dublin. A choral meditation on the deep flow of emotions within our intimate relationships, it'll be performed alongside other contemporary works by the likes of Derri Joseph Lewis, Shruthi Rajasekar, Áine Mallon and Nathan James Dearden.