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Sat 16 Feb 2013, 18:06
22 February 2013 - Musical Technologies: Old and New
Free Admission, All Welcome! www.ashmolean.org/livefriday/
On the last Friday of each month, the Museum will open its doors from 7.00 ?" 10.30 pm, giving visitors the opportunity to see the collections and major exhibitions after hours. Interactive events including theatrical performances, creative workshops and lively talks will be on offer, with drinks and tapas in the rooftop Dining Room on Level 4 and a bar in the vaulted Café on the Lower Ground Level.
Following the inaugural event in January, the second LiveFriday in the series of free late night events at the Ashmolean is Musical Technologies: Old and New on Friday 22 February. Working in partnership with the University of Oxford's Faculty of Music the evening will explore the relationship between music and technology over the last century through free workshops, demonstrations, and performances. Expect to encounter a range of performances and demonstrations from members of the Music Faculty including: Live improvisation by Dr David Maw to the silent film, Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel, as it is projected onto the walls and ceiling in the Ashmolean's vaulted subterranean café.
Professor Eric Clarke, and Dr Roger Allen demonstrating gramophones in the Cast Gallery and the Music and Tapestry Gallery.
M@SH ensemble (Music at St Hilda's), centre for experimental music at St Hilda's College, will perform in the Ashmolean's Atrium.
The ambient sounds of OxLOrk (Oxford University Laptop Orchestra)
A presentation on the research project Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies (MusDig).
In addition the Ashmolean and the Faculty of Music will play host to special guests and acts: Performances and workshops from world-renowned theremin artist, Lydia Kavina.
The Ethometric Music created by British Composer of the Year 2012 for Sonic Art, Ray Lee.
French chanson ensemble, Azut, using instruments such as the bandoneon, will perform interpretations of French translations of English language songs.
Interactive DJs, led by Dr Lisa Busby, demonstrating and encouraging participation around the galleries with sets composed using bespoke instruments.
Fixers band-member, Jack Goldstein, and Gloria Lin performing John Cage's Indeterminacy: New Aspect of form in Instrumental and Electronic Music.
Numerous other activities across the museum from collectors demonstrating contemporary tracks cut to wax cylinders played on a 1905 Edison Phonograph, and the opportunity to play instruments such as the almost obsolete Hurdy Gurdy and Straw Fiddle. Later, as the doors to the main museum close at 10.30pm, there will be a ticketed late-night performance in the vaulted café from Oxford's infamous seven-piece jazz band, The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band, and a special performance from members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the Ashmolean Dining Room and Bar. Most events on the night are free, however, some will be ticketed. Follow this link to book tickets. Since the invention of sound recording at the end of the 19th century the way we encounter, listen to and make music has been revolutionized. Now at a time where smartphones have the power of a small recording studio and mobile listening devices are carried in pockets, people are more aware than ever of the powerful relationship between music and technology. This LiveFriday will take visitors on a tour of technical advances from the invention of the gramophone to the digital age. The evening will be a unique opportunity to explore a century where technology brought access to more music across a wider diversity of cultures and epochs than ever before.
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