Scotland’s newest all-male classical vocal group

Scozzesi

Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green
Thursday 25 September 2014
6.00 - 8.00pm

Scozzesi is a brand new all-male vocal group from Scotland. This collective of eight, talented, classically trained singers and two dazzling pianists, will make their debut performance at the Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green on Thursday 25 September from 6.00 - 8.00pm.

The group takes its name from the Italian for “Scottish men” and the singers are from Angus, Ayrshire, Fife, Lothian and Glasgow. The group was the idea of Daisy Henderson of Classical Musicians Scotland. Daisy said, “I first heard these young men individually at auditions and was instantly struck by how beautifully they sang. I wanted to bring them together because I thought hearing the quality and tone of their voices in four part harmony would be a powerful musical experience.”

They offer a mix of opera, operetta, songs from the shows, traditional Scots songs, popular songs and a few comic surprises along the way, with new arrangements specially written for the group.

With a total of ten musicians, Scozzesi will normally perform as a quartet of singers plus pianist, but for the launch, all members will take the stage. 

HELP!!!

Once upon a time I asked for help. It was to design a periodic table featuring all of the Glasgow performance makers.

Despite the generosity of the Glasgow artists, I didn't finish it. There were too many people to put in a periodic table.

Besides, it was a feint. I wanted to introduce an idea.

For my dissertation at University, I am going to be doing a study of whether there is such a thing as 'a Glasgow performance style.'

To do this, I would like to interview anyone who has an interest in Scottish performance.

So here's the appeal (if you are interested...)

Take three words or phrases that you think apply to Glasgow performance*.

Send them with your name and, if you'd like to be interviewed about the subject to

ignatian@hushmail.com

(I made a special email for this so it doesn't get mixed up with Fringe emails)

Then, repost this page wherever you might think other interested parties might see it.

*I am going to make charts with these word, and use them as a basis for my study.

Help Wanted Again...

Do you live, work or play in Glasgow?

Maybe you visit it every so often?

Or you were born there?

Perhaps you saw a production by a Glasgow artist once, but you have never been north o' border...


But can you come up with a word or phrase that describes Glasgow performance?

At this stage, anything will do. Say whatever you like... the interesting bit comes after I have a few words to mess around.

New Projects @ Sauchiehall Street

It's not as if I haven't done one top five for January already, but as soon as I finish it, another event announces itself. It's the New Projects Weekend at The Art School and Nice N Sleazy, and it not only threatens to devour the whole of the 19th January, it is spread across the two venues in Sauchiehall Street, which means walking past the happy clubbers on their way to Yates. Cheers.

The day is divided into music, spoken word, performance, installation and moving image. Within each section there is further variety - music spans from analogue synths through rap to improvised solo guitar.  My highlight will probably be The Mathletics Team, who not only have a funny name but sing about comics. Beyond that, I can't take it all in - like the best festivals, it needs to be experienced.

Here's the webpage...

Here's the line up...

Music

Analogue Anonymous: A group of like-minded musicians who have a passion for analogue equipment. For this performance they will be utilizing series of synths, drum machines and sequencers.

Caries: Guitars and loops with a humble Tape.

Female Band: An experimental gothic pop performance consisting of collected sounds recorded sounds - edited and performed in a live context.

Graham Mack: Live improvised experimental guitar work with recently recorded field recordings.

Hausfrau: Synth cabaret versions of 60s and 70s rock/pop sounds, featuring members of Aggi Doom and Organs of Love.

Howie Reeve: DIY punk, folk and world music influenced songs with bass guitar and voice, brought to you by Howie from Tattie Toes, and old friend of the Vile Arts Radio Hour.

Leafwrist : Ambient folk-influenced experimental electronics by newly re-located Australian. Featuring visual projections.

Louie (Hector Bizerk): Razor-sharp and witty rap on Glasgow-life and politics from Hector Bizerk's frontman.

The Mathletics Team: An 8-piece band who play under superhero pseudonyms and play pop rock songs about comic books, fantasy and general geeky subculture.

Mount Analogue: A performance of Sonic Deprivation,  a loud, immersive piece of ambient music in complete darkness.

Saint Max and the Fanatics: Offbeat, poetic and energetic 'ADHD-pop' outfit, fresh from a recording their debut EP at Green Door Studios.


Star Voyage: Quasi-improvised Intergalatic space-funk, featuring a real-life midi guitar. Plus live visuals by James William Farlam.

Thomas Burmby: Found sound files scoured from laptops; cut, moved around and re-assembled into the skeleton of a piece of music.

Yoko Ono's Coma: Groovey no-wave, Indie-pop, noise and found sounds, featuring members of Charles of the Ritz, Asian Babes and The Cosmic Dead (among others).

Vox Gradus: Loose, droney tracks from a waterlogged basement, skittering rhythms and broken pieces all furious with the future / lack of. With visuals!

Spoken Word

Emerge 'n' See : A two part performance between both venues involving a disjunction between audio and visual gestures. We will look at the aesthetics/ontology of emerging and the possibility of producing the 'new'.


Performance

Pester and Rossi (Nadia Rossi and Ruby Pester): A performance taking place in the street between The Art School and Nice N Sleazy, followed by a finale performance inside one of the venues.

Amy Pickles, Ailsa MacKenzie and Justyna Ataman, Easy as 1-2-3: Three performers run back and forth between two venues carrying props and costumes, attempting to create a stage in each of the windows.


Michelle Hannah: A performance based around the dystopian lounge singer with use of fragmentation and repetitive appropriation of a chosen pop song. Designed to engage, entice and repulse equally in artifice.


Installation

Ioanna Faga: Interactive collage on how we are destroyed without democracy. Put traits on the face and change it completely.


Bradley Davies and Nick Thomas: 2013 is the 82nd anniversary of the invention of the radio-telescope. Their installed radio-telescope will being a dash of the cosmos to Sauchiehall Street through audio and visualisations.


Marianne Wilson: Video installation using projection mapping techniques incorporating 3D reflective and transparent surfaces. The piece will aim to merge contemporary media with older, more scientific forms of technology. A push pull relationship with intrusive and immersive technology.

Susannah Stark and Katy Shambles: A cryptic light installation and interactive DJ set. The audience will be able to decode and record words and messages from the bulbs using printed charts - these words will then influence the DJ.


Kim Walker: A piece exploring language, the responses of two people to one another, and the associations their words have to each others words. The two have come together for a period of time knowing that they must part again.

Moving Image

Jack Saunders: A new video work addressing the hierarchy of perishable produce. Ideas of consumption are explored alongside those of consumer hypocrisy.

Mario Soustiel and Thomai Pnevmonidou: Moving image Collage on an infinite loop of a dancing couple dancing on the edge of a cliff


Alice Bradshaw : Projections investigating the processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility.