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A Curated Place year in review

As we are getting ready to throw ourselves into an exciting 2015 (with a concert in Manchester tomorrow night) it is time to look back on the wildly eventful year we are leaving behind. 2014 saw us developing and delivering exciting projects in numerous locations – ranging from the colder and darker cities of North Europe to our rainy home city of Manchester. February: Reykjavik Winter Light Festival LYSARP Reykjavik Winter Light Festival represented the start of our Northern Lights Project as we headed to the Icelandic capital. Turning the city central to a glowing masterpiece, delivering five major new installations across the city bringing together artists from Greenland, Iceland, Denmark, Canada, Norway and the UK.

February: Kew Gardens Chocolate Quest kew Working closely with Kew Gardens interpretation, learning and marketing teams  we invited families to our explorer's encampment for a second time as part of the Orchid Festival in the world’s greatest botanical gardens. Visitors travelled to the tropical rainforest to discover the science of conservation, learned about the huge variety of orchids and their potential for our medical future.

May: Collaborative Compositions 2014 round 1 Jack White in his home studio Developing our work with partners Kammerkor Sudurlands and funded by Nordic Culture Point we were able to deliver the second year of our Collaborative Compositions programme - this time working with partners in Norway, Iceland and the UK. First off we worked for a second time with composer Jack White who became new partners Pinquins composer-in-residence. Jack spent his time in Oslo working with the group to develop a new piece ‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ developed around a Norwegian folk tale of the same title.

May: Ageas Salisbury International Festival Eyjafjoll 17 april 2010 A In May we welcomed the Icelandic photographer Anna María Sigurjónsdóttir to Salisbury Arts Centre with her exhibition ‘Eyjafjallajökull’. Displaying a series of stunning images that captured the eruption of the Icelandic volcano that caused a giant ash cloud to disrupt international air travel in April 2010. We also took the South Iceland Chamber Choir to Salisbury Cathedral where they delivered a concert In Memoriam of Sir John Tavener along with the work Welsh composer Jack White ‘Islands (Ynysoedd)’ created through our Collaborative Compositions programme  -  described by Salisbury Journal as "...visual, effective and extraordinary".

June: Umeå - EU Capital of Culture & Collaborative Compositions round 2Hilmar Orn Agnarsson POV camera at the Reykjavik Arts Festival 2014 with the South Icealand Chamber Choir Early June we were on the road again with the South Iceland Chamber Choir with Welsh composer Jack White - this time we headed to Umeå International Choir Festival in Northern Sweden as part of EU Capital of Culture. Once again the choir wowed audiences performing a concert of their own at the Norrlands Operan which included  Jack White’s “Islands (Ynysoedd)” – the fifth performance of his work in a third country – all within a year. It also began the collaboration between Swedish Composer Emil Raberg and the choir as part of Collaborative Compositions - seeing the first workshops take place to develop his new work.

July: Secret Cities - Immersion Secret Cities: Immersion R&D The team had a summer of urban exploration, Photoshop training and immersive projections, in collaboration with photographer and digital artist Andrew Brooks and lighting designer Nick Malbon. Offering a number of photography and Photoshop workshops enabling a renewal of outlook and a sense of ownership to local citizens so often lost in the privatised public realm of contemporary life. The project also pushed the presentation and experience of Secret Cities into new immersive directions – taking Brooks’ stunning photography from the gallery walls into a beautiful projection environment.

August: Moving Classics – European Network of New Music Pinquins Balloons Curated Place secured funding as a lead partner from the Creative Europe programme of the European Union for its Moving Classics project – a two year project that will allow 6 composers from across Europe to work with some of the best musicians from the UK, Iceland and Norway to develop new contemporary classical works and performances that take traditional music out of elite environments and into the 21st century.

October: Collaborative Compositions 2014 round 3 IMG_7398 As part of our Collaborative Compositions programme we welcomed the talented Halldór Smárason from Iceland to our base in Manchester as a composer-in-residence to work with Psappha Ensemble – one of UK’s best new music ensembles. Halldór spent a week researching the archives of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and met UK composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies former keeper of the Queens music during Psappha rehearsals. Combining music and visuals from the archive of one of Manchester’s literary heroes the work 'It means what you think it means' will be premièred 7 January 2015.

November: Bókadagar – Literature and Light Festival The second Northern Lights Project took place in the Faroe Islands in November 2014. Bókadagar – Literature and Light Festival with the Nordic House brought together artists from Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands and the UK delivering new work as well as taking forward some of the works that made Reykjavik Winter Light Festival such a success.

December: Enlighten Manchester – Festival of Light Art 10423833_383836941785161_4146052665377724147_n We took our Northern Lights Project home during four nights in December. Preparing the ground for a major outing in 2015 to sit alongside the UNESCO International Year of Light – we delivered a pilot light festival in collaboration with city wide partners. Despite days of fighting a ‘weather bomb’ during our set-up we illuminated Piccadilly Gardens and Manchester Art Gallery with a series of work by local and international artists. We want 2015 to be the opening year of the first Enlighten festival celebrating the culture Manchester is so rightly proud of - find out how to support the festival at Enlighten Manchester.

Enormous thanks to all the funders, supporters, artists, musicians, composers, technicians and especially the volunteers who have helped us make these projects a reality over the past twelve months...now on to 2015!

categories: Andrew Brooks, Art, Collaborative Compositions, Current Projects, Funding, Jack White, Music, Performance, Photography
Tuesday 01.06.15
Posted by Andy Brydon
 

Curated Place secures Creative Europe funding as a lead partner for a new music network

Curated Place has secured funding as a lead partner from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union along with international partners South Iceland Chamber Choir (Iceland), Pinquins percussion trio (Norway) and The Icelandic Chamber Music Festival (Iceland).

Devised and directed by Curated Place, ‘Moving Classics – Network for new music’  is a two year project that will allow 6 composers from across Europe to work with some of the best musicians from the UK, Iceland, and Norway to develop new contemporary classical works and performances that take traditional music out of elite environments and into the 21st century.

“We’re delighted to have been successful securing such significant funding for Curated Place and our international partners to develop the Moving Classics project. The support of the EU Culture Programme is a huge boost, recognising our work in developing new models for creative production and guaranteeing job security for the entire team into 2016. Over the next two years we are in a position to realize our vision for a series of international collaborative residencies that develop creative networks at home and abroad - cementing Manchester’s position as a creative hub in the North of England.” 

                                                                        Andy Brydon – Director, Curated Place

Inspired by regional musical, literary, poetic and artistic traditions, interpreted through the eyes of an outsider working in each host region the project will deliver a series of festivals for showcasing the new works, alongside workshops, master-classes and debates that connect participants and audiences. The project will also establish a professional development programme and an online resource for musicians and artists seeking new ways to collaborate and experiment. Created with the intention of engaging modern audiences that may not have experienced contemporary classical music the project will seek to reshape the perception of taught musicianship by showing its role in a shared European identity, embracing the emergent experience economy and moving the performance space from the concert hall to found spaces and the public realm.

The project will build on Curated Place hugely successful Collaborative Compositions project, supported by Arts Council England and Sound and Music,which saw young British composer Jack White work in Iceland during 2012 and will welcome Icelandic composer Halldor Smarasson to the UK in the autumn. A real coup for the partners involved is that it will create new chances for significant international partnerships to take place from the company’s Manchester base.

categories: Current Projects, Funding, Jack White, Music, Residency, South Iceland Chamber Choir
Friday 08.08.14
Posted by Andy Brydon
 

“New Voices in Contemporary British Music” Jack White on Google Cultural Institute

New Voices in Contemporary British Music - Google Cultural Institute front page Jack White and his new work "Islands (Ynysoedd)" written for and in collaboration with the South Iceland Chamber Choir gets a very nice nod in the latest exhibition to hit the Google Cultural Institute "New Voices in Contemporary British Music".

His work through our Collaborative Compositions programme sees him recognised as "New Voice who has made the most of effective collaboration" amongst a roster of incredibly impressive peers. We intend to have more where that came from throughout 2014 as we extend the programme to Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the UK with Collaborative Compositions 2014.

Check out the exhibition curated by Martin Scheuregger for Sound and Music bringing together and showcasing some of the most exciting composers and sound artists in the UK right now.

Jack White in his home studio (with Telegraph quote)

tags: artist exchange, arts production, classical, collaboration, creative, Curated Place, exhibition, iceland, Jack White, Music, residency
categories: Audio, Exhibitions, Jack White, Music, Our Projects, Press, Residency, South Iceland Chamber Choir
Thursday 07.10.14
Posted by andybrydon
 

Live from Umeå - Jack White and Kammerkór Suðurlands

Kammerkor Sudurlands - Kultur pages of Vasterbottens Kuriren 22 June 2014 Last week's concert by Kammerkór Suðurlands at the Umeå International Choir Festival, as part of the EU Capital of Culture, has gone down a treat. The choir met and worked with composer Emil Råberg who is their composer in residence as part of Collaborative Compositions 2014 - performing his new work Lux Arcticus.

Once again the choir wowed audiences performing a "Light Night" concert of their own at the Norrlands Operan which included Jack White's "Islands (Ynysoedd)" - the fifth performance of his work in a third country - all within a year.  Nice to see it featured as the lead article in the culture section of Västerbottens-Kuriren and broadcast on the Swedish National classical channel Sveriges Radio P2 - which you can hear for the next 30 days on their catch-up player.

tags: Art, Choir Festival, collaborative compositions, compositions, Emil Raberg, EU Capital of Culture, iceland, John Tavener, Kammerkor Sudurlands, Music, Performance, sound and music, South Iceland Chamber Choir, Sweden, Umea
categories: Audio, Jack White, Music, Our Projects, Performance, South Iceland Chamber Choir
Monday 06.23.14
Posted by andybrydon
 

International Arts Manager magazine

We've just arrived at the EU Capital of Culture in Umeå, Northern Sweden and heard that our work has been featured on the cover of International Arts Manager magazine this month with the South Iceland Chamber Choir and Jack White's ongoing collaboration project. Perfect timing as we'll be introducing the choir to their next collaborator Emil Råberg who is the composer in residence for the International Choir Festival and is creating new work for the SICC as they return as a host ensemble for Collaborative Compositions 2014. SICC Vol 10 No10 Jun 2014 - International Arts Manager Cover SICC Vol 10 No10 Jun 2014 - International Arts Manager - Page 1 SICC Vol 10 No10 Jun 2014 - International Arts Manager - page 2

tags: Art, Arts Council England, choir, choral music, collaboration, Composition, iceland, Jack White, Manchester, Music, new music, singing, sound and music
categories: Jack White, Music, Our Projects, Performance, Press, South Iceland Chamber Choir
Tuesday 06.17.14
Posted by andybrydon
 
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