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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.

French clarinettist Alain Billard kicks off this evening with a classic work by Ircam’s founder, Pierre Boulez. Then Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO play a piece for orchestra and electronics by a rising star of contemporary music, the Korean Unsuk Chin, and a recent work by Dutch-based English composer Richard Ayres.

Jonathan Harvey’s epic Fourth String Quartet – a major piece with live electronics – is played by the acclaimed young Diotima Quartet from Paris, and the evening ends with the first of our tributes to the late, great Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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

Pre- Concert Talk, 6.30pm (Recital Room)

The Electronic Music Revolution – BBC SSO Composer in Association Jonathan Harvey talks about how technology has introduced a radically new creative environment for today’s composers. Free to ticket holders (limited seating availability)

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