Archive for January, 2010

Check out this mini-performance for beatboxer, cello, bass clarinet and percussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wPSd5Twsk

Composer – Anna Meredith
Cello – Oliver Coates
Human beatbox – Shlomo
Bass clarinet – Stuart King
Percussion – Sarah Cresswell

Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra takes place on Feb 19th and 20th at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Congratulations to Arike who won the prize draw for a copy of the Vocal Orchestra DVD after handing in a feedback form at the recent production of BOXED.

Help Haiti whilst busting some beats! You can now bid for a private beatboxing masterclass for you and ten mates.

BID HERE.

All proceeds go to Oxfam’s Haiti appeal. There’s loads of other treasures up for grabs, including a personal song wriiten for you by Damon Albarn, VIP backstage Glastonbury tickets, and a Magic Numbers gig in your garden.

SHLOMO_WORKSHOP

Check out this short by David Dunkley about COLLISION – an exploratory project at @southbankcentre that finished yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScKDoqFaJQ

Find out more on the COLLISION BLOG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBG6Rxk1L_I

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ps0p Check out this piece on BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters to hear my first reactions to Anna’s score: BBC Radio 3 – Music Matters (36 minutes in). You can listen again until next weekend!

Cooking for 40 artists at Southbank Centre’s Collision project was EPIC FUN TIMES with my gang of helpers from Se1 United… it went down a storm

Apple crumble and Jacket Potatoes READY!

OMG I was nearly in tears when Anna showed me the score, it’s FIENDISH. Here’s a little excerpt – click for a close up

OK so this excerpt is 29 bars, of a total of 306 bars in the piece.  Note that in these 30 bars there are 25 time signatures. 25. I have less than a month to memorise the entire piece, with only 2 rehearsals with the orchestra, and I am actually scared. It’s not a good scared like i sometimes get, this is real fear. help!!

Live dubstep project from Leeds Submotion Orchestra | Southbank Centre will be performing for FREE before Shlomo’s Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, February 19th 2010.

Check out these photos by Nathan Gallagher.

The cast – lovely bunch

Getting in our time machine!

Back to the 90s!

And the 70s!

Training Montage!!

What’s in the Box??

Human Drumkit

Human Turntables!

Our villain: Beatrix Badmouth

Look at me doing ‘acting’! yikes.