kerry yong

events future

2012-01-20T06:29:00.000-08:00

Audiograft

19:30 Thursday 1 March 2012
Holywell Music Room
Holywell Street
Oxford OX1 3BN
£3

ParkinsonSaunders
[rout]
Kerry Yong
Felicity Ford
The Albion Players
(Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Cornford)

Half-handed Cloud & Henningham Family Press

2012-01-19T23:26:00.000-08:00

Half-handed Cloud and Henningham Family Press
proudly present a live music and screenprint show, with unreleased songs!

Thursday 19th January 2012
8.00pm (performance starts promptly at 8.30pm)
St Barnabas Church, Shacklewell Row, Dalston, London, E8 2EA
£5 in advance inc. limited edition poster, (£6 on door)

This one-off show will take place in St Barnabas Church, a recently reopened hidden gem in Dalston. The band will take the audience through areas usually inaccessible to the public, playing songs from the extensive H-hC back catalogue and printing a limited edition glow-in-the-dark poster as we go. You will be whisked through the Old and New Testaments with us, singing, printing, eating and drinking, like some sort of Dada Sunday School. The show culminates in a set of previously unreleased songs.

saint barnabas dalston carol service

2011-12-19T10:09:00.000-08:00

st barnabas dalston carol service

sunday 18 december 2011
4.30pm
st barnabas church
shacklewell row
e8 2ea

carols, a choir, instruments, you, a vicar and candles
mince pieces and mulled wine served after the service
festive activities for children under 8 years old

cornelius cardew 75th anniversary concert

2011-12-17T10:12:00.000-08:00

CORNELIUS CARDEW 75TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
saturday 17 december 2011
2.00pm
conway hall
red lion square
wc1r 4rl
£10/£5

Thälmann Variations (1974)
Chisato Kusunoki (piano)
Pieces from the Piano Album 1973 & 1974
Haydn Dickenson (piano)
Boolavogue for two pianos (1981)
Ivory Duo (Panayotis Archontides & Natalie Tsaldarakis)
Cornelius Cardew: A Breath of Fresh Air
A new film by Stuart Munro
Vietnam Sonata, first movement (1976)
David Griffiths (piano)
The Worker's Song (1979)
Lesley Larkum (violin)
We Sing For The Future (1980-81)
Kerry Yong (piano)

grace church hackney carol service

2011-12-11T11:23:00.000-08:00

grace church hackney carol service

sunday 11 december 2011
5.45pm
st leonard's church
shoreditch high st
e1 6jn

carols, a choir, instruments, you, a vicar and candles
mince pieces and mulled wine served after the service
festive activities for children under 8 years old

KLANGDSTINE

2011-11-30T10:28:00.000-08:00

KLANGDSTINE
8pm Wednesday 30th November 2011
Rehearsal
Arch 122/Unit 26
Station Passage
Queens Road Peckham
SE15 2JR

THIS MACHINE WON'T KILL FASCISTS BUT IT MIGHT GET YOU LAID
Clusters and cacophonies for four electric guitars

Terry RILEY
A rainbow in curved air
Kerry Yong - casio and pedals

ANNA ROSE CARTER & CHRISTOPHER BAILEY
Chords and drone-scapes for piano and electronics

VISUALS: Moving image installations
Daniela Kitchiner

DJ
JD

lo-fi video extract of my performance:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/KLANGDESTINE/125453187480867

hcmf// apartment house : graffiti composition

2011-11-21T09:13:00.000-08:00

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Monday 21 November

Bates Mill, 8PM

Free Event

Mauricio Kagel Prima Vista

Mariam Rezaei Brix

Christian Marclay Graffiti Composition

Apartment House

Apartment House light up your life and those dark November nights with three eclectic compositions: Christian Marclay's Graffiti Composition, made by the anonymous citizens of 90s Berlin, Kagel's rarely performed slideshow extravaganza Prima Vista and young turntablist-composer Mariam Rezaei'sBrix, a score consisting entirely of illuminated boxes and ephemera.

Produced by hcmf//

Please note: this performance will be approximately 60 minutes in length

Apartment House + Simon Bookish, Fri 21 Oct 2011

2011-10-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

Listen To This: De La Warhol
De La Warr Pavilion
Marina, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex TN40 1DP

Sound and Music presents Listen To This: De La Warhol, a special evening of experimental music in response to the Warhol is Here exhibition, performed by avant-garde outfit Apartment House and live artist and composer Simon Bookish.

This debut performance features selected works from Songs for Drella, a concept album by John Cale and Lou Reed, originally performed and recorded in 1989. The work was created in dedication to Andy Warhol who died two years previously.

Also forming part of the programme is Amnon Wolman's The Many Faces of Marilyn - Four Requiems, George Brecht's Candle Piece for Radios, This is why People O.D on Pills by Jennifer Walsh and works by other contemporary composers.

Kammer Klang #25

2011-09-14T16:14:00.003-07:00

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Doors : 8pm / Music starts 8.30pm

Tickets : £6 on the door only

Kammer Klang returns to Cafe OTO for its 25th concert in the series.

Presenting music by Ligeti, Stockhausen, Simon Steen-Andersen, Alvin Lucier and Terry Riley.

Arrangements by Kerry Yong for the ensemble: Ligeti's Lux Aeterna (featured in the soundtrack to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Stockhausen's Klavierstuck IX.

The psychedelic A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley performed by Kerry Yong on Casio with effects pedals and Serge Vuille on drum machine.

Violinist Eloisa-Fleur Thom performs her take on Alvin Lucier's I'm Sitting in a Room, newly arranged and titled ‘From death, lead me to immortality’.

Simon Steen-Andersen's Study for String Instrument No.2 for string instruments and whammy pedal performed by Lucy Railton (cello), Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) and Kerry Yong (whammy pedal).

Cornelius Cardew 75th Anniversary Concert

2011-09-01T13:01:00.000-07:00

Thursday 1st September 2011, 6.00pm
Recital Rooms, City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow

In Association with Glasgow University and the Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust

Thälmann Variations
Natalie Tsaldarakis (piano)

'Croppy Boy' and 'Red Flag Prelude'
from Piano Album (1973)
Michael Chant (piano)

The Worker’s Song
Lesley Larkum (violin)

We Sing for the Future
Kerry Yong (piano)

A concert of works from his last decade by British composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) drawing on the socialist themes (”the people’s struggles”) and the popular and traditional tunes which inspired him.

The concert follows a symposium on Cardew’s work at Glasgow Caledonian University (see http://www.n-ism.org/CIM2011/programme.php)

Tickets: Free but ticketed

Video of concert: Stuart and Charlotte Munro

00:00 Natalie Tsaldarakis

23:46 Michael Chant

29:54 Lesley Larkum

39:10 Kerry Yong

ELISION - City of London Festival

2011-07-15T05:45:00.000-07:00

Elision Ensemble - City of London Festival
6.00pm, Friday 15 July

St Andrew Holborn

Australia’s foremost international contemporary music ensemble, Elision, perform a programme almost exclusively given over to a celebration of love, doom and music influenced by the Australian continent and its inhabitants.

David Lumsdaine, 80 this year, is a major figure known as much for his remarkable recordings of the music from the natural world as for his concert compositions, and is represented here by his colourful Kangaroo Hunt. The music of Liza Lim and Michael Finnissy draw upon Australian aboriginal themes and aesthetics. Percy Grainger’s 'Random Round', described by the composer himself as ‘an experiment in concerted partial improvisation’, embraces an earlier period of Australian invention. John Rodgers, keen to reconceive instruments and their use is represented by 'Amor' - a duo for conjoined flute and oboe highlighting the plight of two lovers whose tale is told by Dante. Caught and killed in the act of adultery they are physically inseparable and melded forever in one of the outer circles of hell.

Programme:
Michael Finnissy Aijal
Liza Lim Invisibility
David Lumsdaine Kangaroo Hunt
John Rodgers Amor
Percy Grainger Random Round

ELISION

Richard Craig flute
Peter Veale oboe
Peter Neville percussion
Kerry Yong piano
Séverine Ballon violoncello

Admission:
£10 unreserved (subscription discount)

Apartment House

2011-06-09T14:37:00.000-07:00

8.00pm, 15 June 2011

Oxford Playhouse

Listen to This

The Music of What Happens

Listen to This is a series of contemporary music concerts curated by composers. The first concert in the series, The Music of What Happens, is curated by Jennifer Walshe, who will introduce the pieces. A perfect way for your ears to discover a new world of composers and sounds.

Ground-breaking experimental music group Apartment House, will perform fascinating music including; 124 Milton Street Extract by Zach Seldess, Dead End by Amnon Wolman (performed by a solo clarinettist who battles for space with mechanical toys), Deux Plateaux by Pelle Gudmundsen Holmgreen (a cellist and percussionist), and a world premiere, Dog Star by Jonathan Marmor, using computer algorithms to create alien song cycles.

Running time 90 mins (no interval)

£12 (£10 concessions) + £1 booking fee
Oxford Playhouse box office: 01865 305305

Grønland Kammermusikkfestival no.3

2011-06-03T14:00:00.000-07:00

[Greenland Chamber Music Festival No. 3]
3-5 June 2011

Opening Concert, 3 June, 12:00 - 15:00

Ny Musikk, Platousgate 18, 0190 Oslo

Programme:

Labanna Bly, live performance

Kristin Norderval: Live Jukebox, ”The Sounds of New York”

Kerry Yong: Cover me Cage
Sonata 5, 6 & 7 from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
And The Earth Will Bear Again

Kenneth Karlsson/ Elisabeth Holmertz, harmonium and voice:
Laurence Crane: The Swim
Bob Dylan: Blowing in the wind
Josephine Foster: My life has stood a loaded gun
Klaus Lang: Das kaum wahrnehmbare Lächeln Dostojewskis

Psychedelic Wanderings in Grønland, 4 June, 13:00-14:30

Programme:

13:00 Ny Musikk, Platousgate 18:

Tomutonttu: miniatyr

Anders Førisdal: Klaus K. Hübler: Reisswerk for solo guitar

Kim Myhr: solo guitar improvisation

Kerry Yong, keyboard: Terry Riley: A rainbow in curved air

ca 1330 Interkulturelt Museum:

Kerry Yong: piano – pieces by Claude Debussy
Six épigraphes antiques (1914)
L'isle Joyeuse (1904)

ca 1400 Goethe-institut:

Tomutonttu 25 minute set

Dramatikkens Hus, Tøyenbekken 34, Oslo, 4 June, 19:30

Programme:

Kerry Yong: Cover me Cage
Our Spring Will Come Again
Music for Marcel Duchamp

Jon Øystein Flink

Lasse Marhaug and Sindre Bjerga duo

Ultralyd

King James Bible Bash - London Word Festival

2011-04-19T03:52:00.000-07:00

London Word Festival - King James Bible Bash

7pm Sat 23 Apr 2011

Nathan Jones, Henningham Family Press, Kerry Yong, Kerri Meehan & Sophie Von Cundale, Marcus Orlandi + screening of Buckminster Fuller's film Modeling Universe hosted by Tim Clare with DJs Disco of the Sheep & Goats (& other animals)

Stoke Newington International Airport

Doors 7pm

£8 adv

Music, art, literature and film commune for an evening of performance and print, as we throw a four-hundredth birthday party for the King James Bible with a difference.

Written and performed by Nathan Jones (Mercy), Noah’s Ark is a poetic re-telling of the biblical tale made entirely using footage from the North West Film Archive, and scored by Carl Brown (Wave Machines).

Co-curators the Henningham Family Press will be donning Geodesic Domed spectacles to follow Buckminster Fuller on an exploration of the Garden of Eden, kicking off with a screening of his film Modeling Universe. They’ll also be joined by seven guest collaborators, contributing original broadside posters featuring the seven days of the creation story, to create a man-powered print production line.

The Henninghams will be accompanied by musician Kerry Yong, presenting covers of Terry Riley’s A Rainbow in Curved Air and Messiean’s Quartet for the End of Time on casio.

Kerri Meehan & Sophie Von Cundale will be performing The Last Word, an ongoing project taking the form of an absurdist magazine.

And Marcus Orlandi will be performing 3:16, a performance lecture theorising parallels between the bible narratives of Creation and Redemption and wrestler Steve Austin’s 3:16 character, charting its significance to culture at the time and its importance to the World Wrestling Federation universe.

Hosted by Tim Clare.

Co-curated by the Henningham Family Press

cover me casio & cover me cage @ ICA

2011-02-18T00:01:00.000-08:00

The Pattern Foundry 8pm, wednesday 16 feb 2011

8pm in the Lower Gallery

Mauricio Kagel, Match - Olly Coates (cello), Lucy Railton (cello) and Serge Vuille (percussion)
Aldo Clementi, Madrigale - Kerry Yong (casio & computer)
Christian Wolff, Exercise 15 - constructed by Newton Armstrong

FREE!

kammer klang / christopher fox
8pm, friday 18 feb 2011
kerry yong performs covers of selected prepared piano pieces by john cage
at the ICA, Lower Gallery

6.30pm - Introduction by Christopher Fox

at 8pm
Earle Brown, December 1952 from Folio - Kammer Klang players
John Cage, Five(one) - Kammer Klang players
John Cage (selections from prepared piano works) - Kerry Yong (sampler)
Morton Feldman, For Bunita Marcus - Mark Knoop (piano)

FREE! (but booking required)
Capacity for this event is limited, to book please call the ICA box office on 020 7930 3647.

part of Live Weekends: Notation and Interpretation

Cover Me Cage

2010-12-08T06:38:00.000-08:00

8pm, wed 8 dec 2010

chisenhale arts club - chisenhale dance space

COVER ME CAGE : premiere performance of new electronic arrangements of selected works by john cage originally written for prepared piano.

most of these pieces were written to accompany dance, pragmatically using only a piano stuffed with objects between the strings (screws, bamboo, plastic, leather, etc), creating a whole new palette of exotic percussive sounds.

in the same spirit, these 'covers' are recreations using 'prepared electronics' -- using a midi keyboard and a computer, i perform the same notes as written on the page by cage's fair hand, substituting the prepared piano sound - carefully (or recklessly) - with sampled sounds from the electronic/recorded world.

Our Spring Will Come

No. 5 from Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano

No. 6 from Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano

No. 7 from Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano

And The Earth Shall Bear Again

Music for Marcel Duchamp

casio phase @ kk

2010-11-16T03:45:00.000-08:00

tue 16 nov 2010

kammerklang – cafe oto

steve REICH piano phase (1967)
originally for 2 performers on 2 pianos, kerry performs piano phase on casio keyboard and a delay pedal.

also MINIMAL & LEAFCUTTER JOHN

Cut & Splice 2010: Transmission

2010-11-06T06:31:00.000-07:00

cut & splice festival

sat 6 nov 2010
apartment house – wilton music hall

karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN kurzwellen

john CAGE radio music

STOCKHAUSEN poles fur zwei
Robert NORMANDEAU
MA LA PERT

chisenhale arts club launch

2010-10-06T10:06:00.000-07:00

wed 6 oct 2010

chisenhale arts club LAUNCH! @ chisenhale dance space

a monthly performance series presenting a mixed bill of dance, live art, music and film.

i was the opening act at 8pm:

giacinto SCELSI aitsi for piano and distortion on a casio with pedals

other acts

doors open 7:30pm, first act at 8, £5 on the door

Chisenhale Dance Studios, 64-68 Chisenhale Rd, London, E3 5QZ

brought to you by roberta jean, bryony kimmings and matthew shlomowitz

2010 ISCM World New Music Days

2010-05-03T14:47:00.000-07:00

for the first time, the iscm world new music days was held in the southern hemisphere, and in my hometown, sydney!

i presented two solo recitals:
Monday 3 May, 4pm
My Own Private Keyboard
Australian Music Centre
Dusan Bavdek [Slovenia]: Awakening
Iulia Cibisescu-Duran [Romania]: Passacaglia
Richard Tsang [Hong Kong]: Ji-Li (Disintegration)
Yordan Goshev [Bulgaria]: Sonata-Fantasia

Wednesday 5 May, 1.10pm
Black and White
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Karen Tanaka [Japan]: Techno Etudes
Peter Ablinger [Austria]: ‘Mother Theresa’, ‘Morton Feldman’ and ‘Billie Holiday’ from Voices and Piano
Liza Lim [Australia]: ‘Summer’ from The Seasons
Ian Dicke [USA]: Get Rich Quick

Ensemble Plus Minus

2010-04-12T14:43:00.000-07:00

performed at kings place, 12 april 2010
Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas (1979) , Evryali (1973)
Rebecca Saunders Vermilion (2003) 
Bryn Harrison Repetitions in Extended Time (2008)

Borealis Festival 2010

2010-03-11T17:19:00.000-08:00

Cover Me Casio featured at the borealis festival on 11th march 2010, in bergen, norway

20.30 - Kunstmuseum, Stenersen
karlheinz stockhausen - klavierstuck xvi
aldo clementi - madrigale
knut vaage - electra

21.30 - Landmark
giacinto scelsi - aitsi
peter ablinger - voices and piano: hannah schygulla, mother theresa, bonnie barnett
olivier messiaen - dance of fury for the 7 trumpets from quartet for the end of time
the specials - friday night, saturday morning

22.30 - Landmark - with the casiokids
the specials - ghost town
ivor cutler - trouble, trouble
morton feldman - piece for four pianos
casiokids - walking on water

photos courtesy of Svenn Sivertssen

Casio Me Casio @ Kammer Klang 13

2010-02-02T04:24:00.000-08:00

The first Kammer Klang for 2010, 2 Feb at Cafe OTO!

Madrigale by Aldo Clementi, originally for prepared piano, glockenspiel and vibraphone. In this performance, the winding-down music box process is imitated using delay lines and looping, introducing other degenerating sounds. Computer programming (SuperCollider) by Newton Armstrong.

The iconic, racing, unison movement, ‘Dance of fury for the seven trumpets’ from Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time subjected to a fantasy of casio tones.

Also performed new work by Frederico Reuben Reinita amarilla, termina en el charco
with Leo Chadburn [recorder] and Lucy Railton [cello]

For more info about the night

AiR Bergen

2010-01-27T06:51:00.000-08:00

11 - 27 january 2010

I spent just over two weeks as an Artist in Residence at the USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway.
Despite of the cold and snow with short daylight hours, I was provided a spacious and bright studio overlooking the harbour, to spend time on my Cover Me Casio project for the 2010 Borealis Festival (in March) and to do some collaborative work with local composer Knut Vaage and electro-pop group Casio Kids.

Many thanks to Alwynne Pritchard who arranged the residency and all the staff at USF Verftet.

outside my apartment

approach to USF Verftet

stuff in the studio

KJK trio plays mozart and schubert in highgate

2009-12-20T08:57:00.000-08:00

Kirsten Le Strange, violin 
Jamie Pringle, cello 
Kerry Yong, piano  

play a one-hour concert featuring  
Mozart, Bb piano trio K. 502 
Schubert, Eb piano trio Op. 100  
@
The Red Hedgehog 
255-257 Archway Road, N6 5BS
(opposite Highgate tube)  
on
Sunday, December 20th at 1.15 pm
tickets
£10 on the door
includes drink and Christmas Fayre after the concert

Ny Musikk

2009-11-07T05:05:00.000-08:00

at NY MUSIKK, oslo, sat 7 nov 09, as part of the Ny Musikk konsertserie
i performed SCELSI aitsi, STOCKHAUSEN klavierstuck xvi, and a work by norwegian Bjørn FONGAARD: The Space Concerto
on casio with effects pedals and CD

other performances by norwegian percussion ensemble PINQUINS and berlin-based brazillian singer/guitarist/composer CHICO MELLO

Kammer Klang 11

2009-10-27T04:56:00.000-07:00

tues 27 oct 09 @ Cafe OTO

this time: i did a solo piano set:

Salvatore SCIARRINO: Due Notturni Crudeli (2000-2001)
Salvatore SCIARRINO: Anamorfosi (1980)

also performed John Zorn's COBRA with others [details]

Kammer Klang 8

2009-06-11T02:19:00.000-07:00

i performed (piano with electronics) at kammer klang 8 at CAFE OTO, 7.30pm tuesday 30th june 09

peter ABLINGER voices and piano
(mother theresa, morton feldman, billie holiday)
luigi NONO .....sofferte onde serene...

more programme details

extracts from the evening

Goldberg Variations at Universettee

2009-04-06T15:04:00.000-07:00

i played bach's monumental insomnia-relief commission, the 'goldberg variations' [bwv 988] 8pm, 21 april 2009 at universettee - a series of lecture/art-events which take place in the comfort of a host's lounge room mostly in east london.

J. S. Bach, Goldberg Variations [extracts] by yezzak

Kammer Klang 5

2009-02-27T14:03:00.000-08:00

i performed at Kammer Klang 5 on 24 February 2009.

Scelsi - Aitsi

and Stockhausen - Klavierstuck XVI