23 March 2024
Somerset House – London, 17:30
Chairman’s Staircase
These Cost The Earth
Made in collaboration with performers Wai Shan Vivian Luk, Tommaso Petrolo, and sound designer Michael Picknett
Part of Assembly 2024
These Cost The Earth
Made in collaboration with performers Wai Shan Vivian Luk, Tommaso Petrolo, and sound designer Michael Picknett
Part of Assembly 2024
Leafcutter John + Elaine Mitchener + Blanca Regina
Unpredictable Series presents a special evening of music and unique performances:
a solo by Leafcutter John
a solo with Elaine Mitchener
an audiovisual duo with Leafcutter John and Blanca Regina.
New Music: Elaine Mitchener
b r e a d t h b r e a t h (2018) and Owner’s Manual (2019-21) alongside new works by Oxford student composers
Elaine will introduce performances of her recent compositions in discussion with Professor Jennifer Walshe.
Part of Ensemble Isis <edge> series
The Wire Magazine Takeover
GAIKA [live] Elaine Mitchener [live] Loré Lixenberg [live] David Toop x Mark Wastell [live] People Like Us [AV set: The Library Of Babel]
All proceeds go towards supporting the future of IKLECTIK.
Thinking with Improvisation Critically
Live performances by Maria Chávez, Lore Lixenberg, Elaine Mitchener and Shiori Usui.
Curated by The Otolith Group
In collaboration with Cooper Gallery and University of Dundee
We shape ourselves with the force of each other
Elaine Mitchener’s closing performance improvises on poems and texts by Jay Bernard, Thuyên Nãh, Dicteé by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and the song There It Is by Jayne Cortez.
Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies
Elaine Mitchener mezzo-contralto; Sarah Saviet music direction; MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik
Repertoire
Philip Venables: A Photograph
Elaine Mitchener: the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween (World premiere)
Laura Moody: Rilke Songs
The Hermes Experiment: [with Jethro Cooke]: Metropolis
Meredith Monk: Double Fiesta arr. Denholm
Methods and Processes
Double Recital Elaine Mitchener and Juliet Fraser
Part of Darmstadt Summer Course 2023