Author: pierre

16 – 17 September 2017

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] South London Gallery TOM PHILLIPS | Irma: an opera director Netia Jones | music director Anton Lukoszevieze | performed by Apartment House Tom Phillips' Irma is a unique, intermedia artwork,

Possessing Nothing: John Cage Song Books

Kings Place – London

Deborah Nash

“We are immersed in action and distraction from every direction – performers are behind us and in front. Dam chants an unintelligible mantra from the side; Mitchener bangs a typewriter; Brenda Mayo slaps pink goggles over her eyes and addresses us in French. At a certain point, the performers assume the majesty of archetypes: the messenger, the trickster, the home-maker, the wild card.”

10 June 2017

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kings Place Hall Two Part of Poet in the City Festival ‘To consider the Song Books as a work of art is nearly impossible. Who would dare? It resembles a brothel,

In collaboration with Poet in the City, experimental vocalist Elaine Mitchener presents an event celebrating John Cage’s iconic Song Books, a cornucopia of innovative musical ideas, codes

20 May 2017

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Wysing Arts Centre Launch of Mene Mene Tekel Parsin Elaine performs a solo work to mark the launch of a new exhibition Mene Mene Tekel Parsin curated by artist Jesse

19 March 2017

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] La Monnaie, Brussels - Belgium Visual Voices Improvised performance, with Steve Beresford to Jean Vigo’s short film Zéro de conduit, which looks at young school children’s passion for freedom, as part

Wysing Polyphonic review – who needs amps, when you’ve got vulture bones?

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

“Four performers improvised sound on assembled objects (…) with Elaine Mitchener dissolving into anxious glottal tics. She also created a memorable piece with Sam Belinfante, a couple throwing words at each other with the rainstorm hammering the roof celestially mirroring their plight.”

What’s wrong with the classical concert experience in the 21st century?

Philip Clark

“Mitchener’s piece forces our idea of what a musical experience can be to shift through the breadth of her interests. Boundaries crumble because they have no choice.”