Concert
The Old Library, West Dean College
Pay What You Decide, Open to all age 12+Join us at this evening event that explores the outer reaches of live musical exploration.
Pat Thomas studied classical piano from aged
eight and started playing Jazz from the age of sixteen. He has
since gone on to develop an utterly unique style - embracing
improvisation, jazz and new music.
Sarah Angliss is a composer making dreamlike
performances where the total theatre of the sound's creation is as
striking as the music itself. Her music reflects her eclectic
background as a classically trained composer, electronic artist and
folk musician, and often plays with notions of electrical mysticism
and the uncanny. She was the recent recipient of a Paul Hamlyn
Foundation Award for composition.
Doors open at 7.30pm. Music starts at 8pm. The Steward's Bar will
be open until 10.30pm.
Open to all age 12+. This is a Pay What You Decide event.
Please register to book your seat.
Pat Thomas is a regular performer at prestigious London music venue Cafe Oto. He has played with Derek Bailey in Company Week (1990/91) and in the trio AND (with Noble) - with Tony Oxley's Quartet and Celebration Orchestra and in Duo with Lol Coxhill.
"Sartorially shabby as Thomas may be, and on first impression
even rather stolid, he has a
somewhat imperious charisma that's immediately amplified when he
starts to play. Unlike other
pianists whose virtuosity seems to be racing ahead of their thought
processes Thomas always seems
supremely in command of his gift, and his playing, no matter how
free and ready to tangle with
abstraction, always carries a charge of authoritative exactitude."
The Jazz Mann
A prolific live musician, Sarah Angliss is known for her skills and augmented techniques on the theremin, an instrument she combines live with Max, vocals, recorder, saw, keyboard and her many found sounds and field recordings.
On stage, she's often accompanied by musical automata - machines she's been devising and building since 2005 to give her performance an arresting and uncanny physical presence. Photo credit: Sin Bozkurt.
"...[a] rambling, magical suitcase of weirdness..."
Feminatronic
"defies categorisation and skips freely through the weirder end of
music and sound in equal
measure". 50Connect
PWYD works by enabling audiences to attend shows without paying
for a ticket beforehand, but
tickets can be reserved prior to a performance. Then on exiting the
show, you have the opportunity
to pay what you decide you want to, or can afford to, based on your
overall enjoyment of the
performance.
Please ensure you have arrived and collected your tickets 15
minutes before the show starts in order
to secure your seats. At the end of the show, you can decide what
to pay, by cash on the door.
Suggested price bands of £5 and £10.
West Dean College is supported by PRS Foundation's The Open Fund.