Powerplant (Joby Burgess, percussion/electronics, Matthew Fairclough, sound design, and visual artist Kathy Hinde) explores hi-octane percussion-led music with an electronic sound, bespoke film and live visuals. The 24 Lies per second tour includes a major new work from experimental jazz composer and instrument builder Max de Wardener, inspired by film director Michael Haneke; Dominic Murcott and Matthew Fairclough explore the pre-pianola experiments of Conlon Nancarrow and the 'Amen Break' – six seconds of drumming that changed the face of electronic music – alongside recent politically and socially charged commissions, in Graham Fitkin's 'Chain of Command' and selected voyages from Gabriel Prokofiev's 'Import/Export'. (Part of Out Hear.)
There are also the first UK performances of Steve Reich's My Name Is. Composed in 1967, and making use of both the audience and live looping, Joby has been given the go ahead Steve Reich to perform this piece in the year he celebrates his 75th Birthday.