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Ircam, the famous Paris-based research and performance centre for new music, collaborates with a British orchestra for the first time in this exciting week of concerts and workshops exploring the astounding sound worlds opened up when the latest technology meets acoustic instruments.

Each of our two big concerts is divided into several sections, with intervals between them, so you can choose to attend one or more parts as you wish.

Listeners can choose which sections of the evening to try, but in truth everything is unmissable!

After the incredibly evocative and moving Stockhausen tape masterpiece, Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Children), the Scottish Ensemble makes a guest appearance with two pieces by Xenakis, who could create a unique sound-world using only acoustic instruments.

Leading French trumpet virtuoso Laurent Bômont performs a piece with live electronics by Yan Maresz, and then one of the true originals of electro-acoustic music, Trevor Wishart, performs some of his extraordinary compositions.

The excerpts from Jonathan Harvey’s recent opera Wagner Dream make a powerfully dramatic end to an extraordinary week.

Presented by Roger Wright, Controller BBC Radio 3 and Director BBC Proms, together with Jonathan Harvey, the concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

For more information please go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/bbcsso/webforms/ircam_brochure.pdf

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