LCMF 2014 26 May - 1 June Second Home, London

LCMF 2014

26 May - 1 June

Second Home, London

The second edition of the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF 2013), "the capital's most adventurous and ambitious festival of new music" (The Guardian), returns next Monday. LCMF 2014 (lcmf.co.uk) will offer a week of multi-disciplinary events exploring the best new music and performances from around the world in Rohan Silva's extraordinary new space, Second Home.

Highlights include an exclusive presentation by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, the UK premiere of two string quartets by Italy’s greatest living composer Salvatore Sciarrino, a night of Marxist Chillwave (in association with Verso books), the world premiere of a concerto for violin and computer by synth pioneer Peter Zinovieff, a rare Noh play presentation by an acclaimed young Japanese troupe, a recital by Warhol and Burroughs collaborator John Giorno and a performance by Gavin Bryars.

In association with Verso books and the Quietus, we also present a series of talks at Ace Hotel Shoreditch.

Jennifer Walshe will give a rendition of her own work i: same person/ii: not the same person (2007) that sees "a steady crescendo of electronic flutter" give way to "a torrent of half-whistling, half-salivating vocalism".

About SECOND HOME

Opening in Shoreditch this autumn, Second Home will be the world's most innovative space for entrepreneurs and creative businesses.

Before construction work begins, the Second Home team have invited some friends to host a series of music, art and digital events in their empty building on Hanbury Street. For all Second Home press enquiries, please email: info@secondhome.io.

Rohan Silva, co-founder of Second Home: “We're really pleased that LCMF are hosting their brilliant event in our empty Second Home building. Second Home is going to be a place where creative people and companies come together to do amazing things, and it's great that this is already starting to happen even before our construction work begins."

Address:

Second Home

68-80 Hanbury Street

Spitafields

E1 5JL

About LCMF

LCMF is a not-for-profit multi-disciplinary arts commissioning agency specialising in music and performance. The London Contemporary Music Festival 2014 will be their third festival in the past year, following last year's critically acclaimed London Contemporary Music Festival (July/Aug 2013) and our recent retrospective The Music of Bernard Parmegiani (March 2014). It is run by four curators: Aisha Orazbayeva, Sam Mackay, Igor Toronyi-Lalic and Lucy R