Name: Urban Birds
Start: 2022-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Southbank Centre

Urban Birds

London

United Kingdom

Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Urban Birds Arlene Sierra

Public

Approved

South Bank Centre

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Conductor

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Soprano

Singer

Contralto

Baritone

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Mezzo-soprano

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Arlene Sierra is a composer of orchestral and chamber music whose compositional beginnings were in the electroacoustic field.

Urban Birds is a return to Sierra's electroacoustic roots, and brings together three international soloists who specialise in new music for piano plus electronics.

Urban Birds combines harmony, rhythmic drive and sounds from nature in a tapestry of environmental sound and virtuosic performance, engaging musically with our relationship with the natural world.

The piece employs recordings of birds that range in the UK, specifically Wales: the blackcap, the skylark and the cuckoo.

The recordings are part of the musical texture, with samples functioning as integral musical elements in the evolving structure of the work.

The three pianists play material that imitates and answers the birdsong, and they have specific roles as well: one soloist doubles on percussion, one plays the strings inside the piano, while another part interacts with a recorded Yamaha Disklavier piano.

Urban Birds is in three movements, performed attacca:

1. Sylviid Babblers. This movement features the extended songs of the blackcap, with answers from related species known collectively as Sylviid Babblers, as well as from the pianos and a single crotale.

2. Skylark Loops. A looped fragment of the skylark's song is transcribed, manipulated and repeated with percussive contributions from stopped piano strings and woodblock.

3. Cuculus-cornuta. Cuckoo calls dominate this movement, punctuated by the guiro, until rogue elements are introduced in the form of an extended passage for pre-programmed Disklavier and the call of a very different bird: the South American Horned Screamer.

English

Urban Birds by Sierra, A., Noiztik (2022/2022), South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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