Contemporary Music by Sands Films - Dailymotion

Sands Films

Series of Contemporary Music concerts delivered at Sands Films studio.

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00:00:00I've had a couple of things for her.

00:00:01Thank you, please.

00:00:08Hello, everyone.

00:00:11Simon's about my mother.

00:00:16Hi, I'm Gloria.

00:00:17I'm nice to see you.

00:00:18I know most of you, so it's really wonderful to see you.

00:00:20If I don't know you, it's nice to meet you.

00:00:22Thank you so much for coming.

00:00:24So this project, we called it one microphone on three bases,

00:00:28and I couldn't come up with a different name,

00:00:30but I will tell you my kind of...

00:00:32So what we're doing is we're recording an album today.

00:00:34I will tell you my kind of working title,

00:00:36which is Dual Singularity.

00:00:39And so that's kind of paradoxical,

00:00:41but it was something that emerged

00:00:43when we started rehearsing the quartet with the bases.

00:00:46And even though it is an equal quartet,

00:00:48it's not like a concerto soloist with a compliment.

00:00:51It is equal parts.

00:00:53It sounded dual because of the sonorities in it,

00:00:56and I found that a really fascinating emergence from it,

00:01:02and you just couldn't get away from it.

00:01:04So it has that element in it.

00:01:07And then I also thought, what's missing a trumpet?

00:01:10So we have Charlotte Keith joining us.

00:01:13Charlotte Keith's going to start us out with a solo set.

00:01:15And I was thinking, okay, a soloist is obviously a single person,

00:01:22or a sort of singularity.

00:01:25Obviously a person is not one thing.

00:01:27But when you add the instrument,

00:01:29there is that duality there with the soloist.

00:01:32There is feedback to and from the instrument.

00:01:34So that kind of pairs with this whole thing.

00:01:39Because we're really just playing one set with all the bases,

00:01:43so I just wanted to do a little more.

00:01:47And Charlotte's playing is really, really brilliant and fascinating,

00:01:50and I think it pairs with what we're doing really well.

00:01:52So I'm just going to quickly introduce Charlotte,

00:01:54and then she's actually going to introduce her playing more.

00:01:58So I won't get on about the aesthetic.

00:02:00I think she has a beautiful way of saying it.

00:02:02But so Charlotte Keith is a soloist and ensemble musician,

00:02:08just extraordinarily collaborative musician.

00:02:11And actually, she and I met through the community,

00:02:14but we both are alumni of this program, Take Five,

00:02:19that Sirius, the jazz promoter runs.

00:02:22And that's also something kind of a common thread

00:02:28in tonight's lineup.

00:02:30And so I'm going to read a little bit from her bio.

00:02:34So her debut album right here, right now,

00:02:36which is also the name of her quartet,

00:02:38and that's with Ashley John Long, Ben Handysides, and Moss Freed.

00:02:42So they've got two records out,

00:02:45and this quartet has been...

00:02:48Charlotte's music, and I think it's largely the quartet,

00:02:50has been broadcast on BBC Radio, Jazz FM,

00:02:55with presenters such as Cori Wamba, Stuart McHoney, and Jez Nelson.

00:03:00They've performed at Germany's MERS Festival,

00:03:02South Bank Center, Royal Ever Hall, London Jazz Festival,

00:03:06Weeds Jazz Festival, and it goes on for a long time.

00:03:08So she's very, very, very impressive.

00:03:11And so I'm really, really happy to include her on this program.

00:03:13She's really a fascinating player,

00:03:16and I'm looking forward to hearing it.

00:03:18So I'll let her introduce her sound a little bit.

00:03:20And then the last thing I'll say is

00:03:22we are recording everything tonight,

00:03:25which it is live,

00:03:27so you're humans, you move, you make sounds, that's okay.

00:03:30If there are sounds that you can refrain from making

00:03:33until the end of a piece,

00:03:35that would be really wonderful.

00:03:37And just the program is,

00:03:38because I'm going to stop talking,

00:03:39and we'll just play and let the music do its thing.

00:03:42So the program's going to be Charlotte first,

00:03:44and then we'll play three duos of microphone and bass,

00:03:48and then we'll play the quartet.

00:03:50And, yeah, enjoy,

00:03:52and we'll be moving around,

00:03:54but I don't think I'll say anything else,

00:03:56and we can chat and catch up afterwards.

00:03:58So thank you for being here.

00:03:59Hello, everybody.

00:04:14Happy New Year.

00:04:16My name's Charlotte.

00:04:17It's so lovely to be here.

00:04:19It's such a joy and an honour to be here.

00:04:23I would like to take a little moment

00:04:25just to talk about

00:04:26what's the music that you're,

00:04:29the sounds and music that you're about to listen to.

00:04:33And introducing,

00:04:34so obviously this is trumpet and flugelhorn here,

00:04:37but to me they have become my sound brushes.

00:04:41And they're just everything to me.

00:04:43I love them so much.

00:04:44I just enjoy really playing and exploring them.

00:04:48And in that process,

00:04:50I just love embracing everything

00:04:53that the horns have to offer.

00:04:55So to me,

00:04:56music has become everything,

00:04:59everyone,

00:05:00everywhere,

00:05:01and I see sounds and music as

00:05:03shapes and colours

00:05:06and textures and gestures.

00:05:09So,

00:05:11sound brushes.

00:05:13The other thing I'd like to add is

00:05:16that although I'm playing a solo,

00:05:19it doesn't ever feel like a solo to me.

00:05:22we're all part of this together,

00:05:26so we're all one large ensemble.

00:05:30Okay.

00:05:33Off we go.

00:05:35Have a great day.

00:05:43Thank you,

Gloria Yehilevsky: One Vibraphone, Three Basses

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