UK Microfest 1 Announcement

On behalf of Don Bousted and Microtonal Projects UK:

The first official UK Microfest - a two day festival of microtonal concerts and lecture
presentations - is drawing near! Program(me) is given below; for the original pdf version
and complete information, please visit:

http://www.microtonalprojects.co.uk

... just to name a few, Don Bousted, Patrick Ozzard Low, Bob Gilmore and Yours Truly
hope that you and your friends can join us!

Regards,
Aaron Hunt

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UK MicroFest 1
(and Wild Dog 1)
river riverhouse house
Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 2PF
www.riverhousebarn.co.uk
(Walton is only half an hour from London Waterloo)
Friday 14 October and Saturday 15 October, 2005
The UK's 1st Festival of Microtonal Music
`escape the 12-tone squirrel cage' (Ivor Darreg, 1974)
... come to hear music in 19-, 24-, 30- and 48-divisions of the octave, just intonation and
Pythagorean Tuning on new, old and modified instruments:
film, sonic art, live art and new applications of technologies ...
Detail of the valve mechanism designed to convert Stephen Altoft's trumpet into a
quarter-tone instrument (see inside for details)
UK MicroFest 1 offers a lively, controversial and artistically compelling forum which will
demonstrate
the depth and diversity of microtonal music making in the UK
Wild Dog 1 puts microtonal music into a wider context of arts practice using the restored
18th century
barn, which forms the centrepiece of river riverhouse, to full effect
house, Artistic Director Donald Bousted
Wild Dog co-curated by Donald Bousted and Barbara Dean
Window Sessions selected and introduced by Patrick Ozzard-Low
UK MicroFest 1: Ticket Information
Day Session 1: £10 (concs £6)
Evening Session 1: £10 (concs £6)
Day Session 2: £15 (concs £10)
Evening Session 2: £6 (concs £4)
Any 2 Sessions: 10% discount; Any 3 Sessions: 15% discount
All Sessions: 20% Discount
Ticket Reservations
By Post: river riverhouse, house, Riverhouse Barn, Manor Road,
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 2PF
By Email: boxoffice@riverhousebarn.co.uk
cheques should be payable to Riverhouse
Visa and Mastercard accepted
for directions and further information about riverhouse:
www.riverhousebarn.co.uk
for accomodation and restaurants in the area:
www.elmbridge.gov.uk/Tourism/accomodation.htm
river riverhouse house
river riverhouse house is an arts venue built around an 18th century barn on the river in
Walton-on-Thames. Opened to the
public in 1989, it is a performance space, art gallery, craft studio, café-bar and garden
with on-site parking. It is
close to Walton town centre and within a short walk of the Thames path and a number of
attractive riverside pubs.
There is bed and breakfast accommodation, very reasonably priced, nearby. Walton is
around 30 mins from
London Waterloo and river riverhouse house is close to the M25. river riverhouse house is
approximately 20 mins walk from Walton
station; taxis to river riverhouse house normally cost less than £5.
What is microtonal music?
The most concise definition of microtonal music is music which uses pitches other than
the 12 equally spaced pitches
normally heard in western music or their very close relations (like the ones used in the
temperaments of Baroque
music such as Meantone Temperament Temperament). ). Such music is not particularly
rare. We know that the ancient Greeks used
structured intervals as small as a quarter-tone, so do many folk musics from around the
world and Indian classical
music.
Quarter-tones are by far the most commonly used of these smaller intervals. A quarter-
tone is exactly half the size of
a semitone, an interval which therefore doesn't exist on the piano but which can be played
on all the orchestral
instruments with practice. Quarter-tones can also be played on specially adapted
instruments such as guitars or
brasses with an added fourth, quarter-tone valve.
The expanded palette of sounds which becomes available through microtones is being
sought more and more by
composers and as well as quarter-tones, in UK MicroFest 1 you can hear many other
possibilities realised by
performers of exceptional ability.
Microtonal music is not concerned with any particular style of music, or any particular
musical culture. Indeed, many
of the most interesting microtonalists in the 20th century were maverick figures who
operated outside the normal
music hierarchy. We hope you will come and join us ...
sponsored and promoted by Microtonal Projects Ltd www.microtonalprojects.co.uk
Financial assistance from The RVW Trust and The Hinrichsen Foundation

Friday 14 October, 2005
river riverhouse house will be open for lunch from 11.45am
Day Session 1: 1.00pm-5.15pm
• 1.00pm-1.40pm
Composing for Quarter-Tone Alto Flute*
Carla Rees and David Burnand introduce the Kingma quarter-tone alto flute: performances
of Night Scene by
David Burnand and Apparition and Release by Michael Oliva performed by rarescale (Carla
Rees and Michael
Oliva)
• 1.45pm-2.15pm
The Rosegarden Codicil: Rehearsal Strategies in 19-ET*
Prof. Graham Hair, composer; Dr Nicholas J. Bailey and Douglas McGilvray, software
development;
Dr Ingrid Pearson (clarinet)
• 2.20pm-3.00pm
Some Microtonal Experiments
Key-note lecture Patrick Ozzard-Low
short break
• 3.30pm-4.15pm recital by William Raaijman (saxophone)
Paavo Heininen Discantus III (1986)
Sander Germanus New Work – World Premiere (2005)
Donald Bousted Four Comedic Studies for solo alto saxophone UK Premiere (2001)
• 4.30pm-5.15pm
Fine Tuning and Tonal Hybrids
Key-note lecture Prof. Christopher Fox
Evening Session 1: 7.30pm-c.9.15pm
• 7.30pm recital by duo Contour (Stephen Altoft Altoft, microtonal trumpets; Lee Ferguson
Ferguson, percussion)
, Donald Bousted Verses 1-3 for 19-div trumpet, percussion and DVD World Premiere of
Verses 2 and 3
(2001-5)
James Gardner Local Economy for 19-div trumpet and percussion World Premiere (duo
Contour commission
funded by Creative New Zealand) (2004-5)
Yu-Ching Chiang YuMeiRen for 24-div trumpet and percussion UK Premiere (2004)
Michael Parsons Contours for 19-div trumpet and percussion (duo Contour commission)
World Premiere
(2005)
Donald Bousted in your dreams for 19- and 24-division trumpets, percussion and
electronics with video footage
including a performance of Deliverance by Barbara Dean UK Premiere (2004)
Saturday 15 October, 2005
river riverhouse house will be open for coffee from 10.30am
Day Session 2: 11.00am-6.15pm
• 11.00am-11.20am Microtonal Procedures in Sailing to Byzantium for Solo Recorder
Player*
Dr. Brian Inglis with Rachel Barnes (recorder)
• 11.20am-11.40am Pocket Gamelan: rationale for interactive performance using mobile
phones*
Prof. Greg Schiemer (Greg Schiemer's visit is supported by University of Wollongong and
the Australian
Research Council)
• 11.40am-12.00pm Pythagorean Harmonies in Trompettes de Mort Mort*
Dr Margaret Lucy Wilkins
• 12.00pm-12.45pm
Megastaff: A Notation for all Possible Pitches
Key-note lecture Aaron Hunt
short break for lunch
• 2.00-2.45pm recital by Rare Bird (Rachel Barnes and Natasha Powell Powell, recorders)
Paul Newland Pneuma (2004)
Mike Vaughan ... Again into Light (2001)
Donald Bousted A Journey Among Travellers (1998)
• 3.00pm-3.45pm
A Microtonal Manual for the Trumpet
Lecture/Demonstration Dr Donald Bousted and Stephen Altoft (trumpet)
short break
• 4.30pm-5.15pm recital by Elisabeth Smalt (viola, adapted viola, voice)
Horatiu Radulescu Lux Animae (1996)
Giacinto Scelsi Manto I (1957)
Rozalie Hirs article 4 – "map butterfly" (2004) UK Premiere
Frank Denyer (UK) Woman, Viola and Crow (2004) World Premiere
Harry Partch lyrics by Li Po (1930-33) (extracts)
• 5.30pm-6.15pm
Microtonality: my part in its downfall
Key-note lecture Dr Bob Gilmore
Evening Session 2: 8.00pm-c.9.30pm
An innovative, multi-media event co-curated by Donald Bousted and Barbara Dean.

Wild Dog 1 will incorporate microtonal music, film, live and sound art.
Wild Dog 1
Microtonal Music – Live Performance
Christopher Fox Straight Lines in Broken Times 3 (cello, 1994)
Michael Parsons Melody in 19-divisions (19-div trumpet, 2004)
John Lely Corona (19-div trumpet, 2005) World Premiere
Oscar Garrido de la Rosa tom reads useless magazines privately every tuesday
(19-div trumpet and tape, 2005) World Premiere
Christopher Fox chant suspendu (cello, 1998)
Robin Michael (cello); Stephen Altoft (trumpet)
Film
Delpha Hudson To the Lighthouse and Back (2002, 10 mins, silent)
Laura Malacart Assembly (2005, 4 mins, first screening); untitled (Person on Sea) (2005,
first
screening); untitled (Horizon) (2005, first screening)
Accidents (2001); Chameleon Woman (2003)
Claudia Kappenberg Words in Silence (1998, 3 mins)
Sonic Art
Nick Collins VLN Suite (2002)
Philip Henderson Multi-Drones and Rhythms
Greg Schiemer Mandala 3 – an interactive performance using mobile phones: Greg
Schiemer, Patrick
Ozzard-Low, Claudia Kappenberg and Phillip Henderson (mobile phones)
Greg Schiemer Tempered Dekanies (2001, UK Premiere)
Live Art
Breathe (Abigail Davey, Polly Hazlewood, Natalie L'Herroux) Counting Corners (ongoing,
2005)
*Window Sessions – selected by Patrick Ozzard Low following a an open `Call'

> The first official UK Microfest - a two day festival of
> microtonal concerts and lecture presentations - is drawing
> near! Program(me) is given below; for the original pdf
> version and complete information, please visit:
>
> http://www.microtonalprojects.co.uk
>
> ... just to name a few, Don Bousted, Patrick Ozzard Low, Bob
> Gilmore and Yours Truly hope that you and your friends can
> join us!
>
> Regards,
> Aaron Hunt

Aaawwwsooome....!

-Carl