music we'd like to hear

Pre-concert event: Bea Redweik's Songs as Process
Songwriter, researcher, curator and interdisciplinary artist Bea Redweik presents Songs as Process – an intimate and interstitial performance work that foregrounds the unfinished. In this multimedia performance installation, a live songwriting session is interwoven with video material showing process from earlier iterations of the artist's process, revealing artistic practice as a multimodal and rhizomatic space of experimentation. This performance will precede the concert, and will be available for all to drop in on.

Concert:
This programme was curated around a performance of Erik Satie's Socrate, still rarely heard, an unostentatious yet singular and unique work. Continuing the interior quietude with Walter Zimmermann's Abgeschiedenheit, music of solitude and seclusion, followed by Galina Ustvolskaya's Piano Sonata No.4 from 1957, the contemplative spare quiet lines of a creative isolation, and ending the programme with the defiant concrete blocks of her Piano Sonata No.6 (1986).

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Regular mwlth audience member Laurence Crane decided that he'd really like to hear a concert of Tim Parkinson's music, so he deftly evaded the heavy security at mwlth HQ and installed himself there as guest curator. This retrospective attempts the impossible; sum up Parkinson's extraordinary output in 90 minutes. Mira Benjamin and Eliza McCarthy present first concert performances of two pieces, violinpiano 2022 and piano piece 2015. septet 2004 is revived by a specially convened ensemble from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and House of Common, one of Parkinson's 'table-top' pieces, originally written for Parkinson Saunders with bassist Michael Duch, is performed by a configuration of the Fargion family.

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Portrait: Amber Priestley
A string quartet is turned top-to-bottom; four musicians navigate the intricacies and annoyances of life in a metropolis; a video score infiltrates your pockets and illuminates St Mary-at-Hill. Amber Priestley and Mira Benjamin are joined by musicians from the Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble to present three rarely heard works, which share a love of the score-art-object: folded paper; cuttings and scribblings; repurposed objects; materials of the environment, the imagination, of memory and daily life. A concert in celebration of Amber Priestley's first 50 years, and in anticipation of her next 50!