I just got an email from a site called Winkball.com who were at the recent premiere of Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra. They took over 50 videos of people’s thoughts before and after the gig. (Some are more interesting than others – there’s a selection below). You can see the rest of the videos here.
sitting here trying to nail this score. there’s a part where i have to make two notes at once, which means learning how to blow a raspberry in tune, and then sing another note on top. right now i’ve been blowing raspberries into a guitar tuner for nearly an hour. this is my job. http://shlo.co.uk/beatboxconcerto
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.
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!!
today is first day of a 2 week residential project at Southbank Centre called Collision.. I’ll be working closely with percussionist Colin Currie. Each of the other Artists in Residence has invited an artist to work with closely. got no idea what will happen but will be updating here regularly!
We has such a great session on Thursday, the first workshop for the Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra where we actually blended a group of beatboxers with a real orchestra – about 15 of them!
Anna Meredith (our composer) is flying, she’s been writing some exciting rhythmic and harmonic little pieces. Now she can start stringing them together into the final score (which has to be done by Xmas – no pressure then).
Highlight of the day was when the orchestral players beatboxed, just
by reading the notation! It really works STOKED.
Here’s some photos taken by Gemma Riggs.
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Our translator Simon meets us at the airport… I later took his Chinese name (Si Wen which means polite boy).
We went up to the top of the world’s second highest building (the one on the right where it disappears into the clouds!)
Roxorloops and I get ready for judging!
Bellatrix gets ‘in the zone’
We took a ferry over the river to the Pu Dong district where all the ridiculously big buildings are
Belgian beatbox stars Roxorloops and Karen after our ferry trip
ok food time… steamed dumplings
we ate SO MUCH
Lotus roots
They brought out so much, half of this was untouched. delicious tho!!
YUMMY!!!
Pigeon head
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