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London Contemporary Music Festival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2018

Lawrence Dunn
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Does intimacy have anything to do with music? Music – especially acoustic chamber music – is regularly, even unthinkingly, labelled intimate. The implications of this common-enough usage were the major preoccupation of the most recent London Contemporary Music Festival. With multiple images and varieties of intimacy foregrounded – bodily, sexual, aural, psychological, somnolent – Igor Toronyi Lalic's curation was masterful. By turns provocative, baffling, emotional and ear-averting, not without some irony, the concerts were held in a vast underground concrete room.

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FIRST PERFORMANCES
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Tempo , Volume 72 , Issue 285 , July 2018 , pp. 86 - 91
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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References

1 A 2011 performance of this piece, at The Kitchen in New York, can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/39447038. The section excerpted as Purposeful Lady begins at 28:20.

2 See also Gann, Kyle, Robert Ashley (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012)Google Scholar.

3 A 2016 performance of Ashley's final project, Quicksand, is documented here: https://vimeo.com/157963715

4 Carolee Schneemann discusses the making of Fuses here: https://vimeo.com/6399005.

5 From liner notes to Dion McGregor Dreams Again, Tzadik Records, B00000I0FN, 1999, www.songpoemmusic.com/dion/chapters/wagon.htm.