Some photos by Brandon Otto from the London Sinfonietta’s Untold Stories at The Stage Door the other week…
Untold Stories Photos
Category Archives: Gigs
ANIL SOOD premiere
On 22 July 2022 London Sinfonietta are staging an event in Southampton, UNTOLD STORIES, to screen the premiere of ANIL SOOD. I collaborated with the amazing artist Alys Scott-Hawkins on this project, writing a piece for piano and electronics, A-Listers, that Clíodna Shanahan recorded back in July 2021. Alys used the recording of this piece to make a super cool film. The music and film explore the life of Anil Sood, who we both met when he ran our local DIY store. Anil is an amazing person, who ran (and runs) drum’n’bass events as PARADOX. Following this premiere the film will be available on Youtube.
Clíodna Shanahan will also perform the UK premiere of my Too Many Sweets (when Dorothy met Blake) for toy pianos and electronics. The rest of the programme features a great piece by Julia Wolfe, East Broadway, and Steve Reich’s seminal Electric Counterpoint.
Playing the piano…
Back in March I played piano with the Dan Mar-Molinero orchestra on a strange gig bringing together AI and jazz. I’ve had a bit of a strange relationship with the piano over the years. I love playing jazz music in particular but also spent a lot of my 20s around serious players and lost confidence about my playing. Piano has remained central to my compositional practice though. More recently my mate Dan Mar-Molinero keeps asking me to do gigs like this one at Turner Sims. Playing with Jasper Hoiby and Julian Arguelles as well as many other great musicians in this project was fantastic. I like it. I want to do more. Here are some great photos from Ash from whatabouttheash.
Jazz as Social Machine
Excited to be playing piano as part of the Dan Mar-Molinero Jazz Orchestra at Turner Sims on 19 March. Super interesting project with another colleague from the University of Southampton Tom Irvine. We’ll be playing charts from Dan’s new album, sometimes with a jazz robot! What’s not to love!
Tickets available on Turner Sims website.
Dorothy Chan premieres ‘Too Many Sweets…’
Dorothy Chan will premiere Too Many Sweets (when Dorothy met Blake) for toy pianos and PICO synthesiser at The Cell, New York, on 15 December. Dorothy approached me to write this piece at the end of 2020 and it features 3 of her toy pianos (Lil’ Blue, Perry, Beu) and a new wavetable synth designed by Blake Troise (aka Protodome).
BOTC Photos
Here are a couple of pictures from recent ‘Birth of the Cool’ gig at Turner Sims from crazy talented photographer Ash Sealy: https://www.whatabouttheash.com/our-story
Was really fun playing jazz again, especially with some super talented musicians…
On the Circulation of Blood – Folkestone Triennial – Folkestone – 16/10/21
| What |
On the Circulation of Blood
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| When |
Saturday, October 16, 2021
8:00pm
- All Ages |
| Where |
Folkestone
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| Other Info |
Sam Belinfante's 'On the Circulation of Blood' is an itinerant, multimedia installation and performance work as part of ‘The Plot’, the fifth edition of Creative Folkestone Triennial. Initially unfolding at The Old Drying Grounds, adjacent to St Peter’s School, the work will then move to Market Place in central Folkestone before making its final journey to the Lower Leas Amphitheatre.
The installation and performances will include my newly commissioned piece that I made in contribution to the project: 'Beacons' alongside new pieces by Sarah Dacey, Neil Luck, Elaine Mitchener, Bernhard Schimpelsberger and Josephine Stephenson. |
On the Circulation of Blood – Folkestone Triennial – Folkestone – 14/08/21
| What |
On the Circulation of Blood
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| When |
Saturday, August 14, 2021
8:30pm
- All Ages |
| Where |
Folkestone
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| Other Info |
Sam Belinfante's 'On the Circulation of Blood' is an itinerant, multimedia installation and performance work as part of ‘The Plot’, the fifth edition of Creative Folkestone Triennial. Initially unfolding at The Old Drying Grounds, adjacent to St Peter’s School, the work will then move to Market Place in central Folkestone before making its final journey to the Lower Leas Amphitheatre.
The installation and performances will include my newly commissioned piece that I made in contribution to the project: 'Beacons' alongside new pieces by Sarah Dacey, Neil Luck, Elaine Mitchener, Bernhard Schimpelsberger and Josephine Stephenson. |
On the Circulation of Blood – Folkestone Triennial – Folkestone – 21/07/21
| What |
On the Circulation of Blood
|
| When |
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
9:00pm
- All Ages |
| Where |
Folkestone
|
| Other Info |
Sam Belinfante's 'On the Circulation of Blood' is an itinerant, multimedia installation and performance work as part of ‘The Plot’, the fifth edition of Creative Folkestone Triennial. Initially unfolding at The Old Drying Grounds, adjacent to St Peter’s School, the work will then move to Market Place in central Folkestone before making its final journey to the Lower Leas Amphitheatre.
The installation and performances will include my newly commissioned piece that I made in contribution to the project: 'Beacons' alongside new pieces by Sarah Dacey, Neil Luck, Elaine Mitchener, Bernhard Schimpelsberger and Josephine Stephenson. |
On the Circulation of Blood – Folkestone Triennial – Folkestone – 21/07/21
| What |
On the Circulation of Blood
|
| When |
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
3:00pm
- All Ages |
| Where |
Folkestone
|
| Other Info |
Sam Belinfante's 'On the Circulation of Blood' is an itinerant, multimedia installation and performance work as part of ‘The Plot’, the fifth edition of Creative Folkestone Triennial. Initially unfolding at The Old Drying Grounds, adjacent to St Peter’s School, the work will then move to Market Place in central Folkestone before making its final journey to the Lower Leas Amphitheatre.
The installation and performances will include my newly commissioned piece that I made in contribution to the project: 'Beacons' alongside new pieces by Sarah Dacey, Neil Luck, Elaine Mitchener, Bernhard Schimpelsberger and Josephine Stephenson. |
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