Open Circuit Festival - Guild Sound Collective

11:00am - 12:00pm / Thursday 10th March 2016 / Venue: Leggate Theatre Victoria Gallery & Museum
Type: Music / Category: Department
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The Guild Sound Collective present an educational programme for secondary school pupils. The university’s in house contemporary/classical/pop crossover student ensemble will play a variety of pieces that demonstrate the potential of putting classical instruments into new situations. Guild Sound Collective director Rod Skipp of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic will conduct an orchestration of a Radiohead song and then spend time talking about how to approach arranging popular music for classical instruments. The ensemble will then play live music to a film excerpt, composed by composer Dan Fallon, who will speak about how he uses classical instruments to add unusual sounds to film scores. Finally, the group will play an exciting piece of contemporary music, Louis Andriessen’s Worker’s Union, which asks players to play rhythms without specifying precise pitches.