In the Round: WACK (Jennifer Walshe & Neil Luck) x lovemusic + Kiran Leonard

Collective lovemusic – acclaimed Strasbourg-based music group – join with experimental composer-performers Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck (aka WACK) for two UK premieres exploring radical experimental performance, unpredictable choices, and one of Britain's most exalted movie directors.

Lovemusic, known for their courageous explorations of new configurations of collaborative performance, are joined by WACK for a live collage in the round. Across their collaborative 45-minute new work, they’ll move between composed material, spoken text, visual elements and real-time decision making, creating a maximalist coming together of multilingual voices, acoustic instruments, live electronics, esoteric invocations, telepathic madrigals, dense noise and deep relaxation tapes.

The gig will also feature a new piece by Neil Luck: an epic fan-fiction monologue that cinematically deconstructs the identity of acclaimed British film director Christopher Nolan.

Support from acclaimed composer, arranger and songwriter Kiran Leonard.

Co-presented with Nonclassical.

lovemusic is supported by the French Ministry of culture – DRAC Grand Est, the Conseil Régional Grand Est, the City of Strasbourg; Diaphonique, Franco-British-Irish fund for contemporary music, in partnership with the SACEM, the Friends of the French Institute Trust, the British Council, the Institut français, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Centre National de la Musique, Culture Ireland and Salabert Fondation.

nonclassical thanks the friendly support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.