Results for "Sylvia Hallett"

Sylvia Hallett

Borealis 2020

by Martin Longley
April 4, 2020

Borealis Bergen, Norway March 6-8, 2020 Borealis means 'northern,' so we must be in Norway, for this festival of experimental music, which has been running in rainy Bergen since 2004. Even though, perhaps, the foundational musical forms of this long weekender lie in the moderne, compositional, new music zone, the ...

Hymn: Silence, Then Birds

by John Sharpe
February 19, 2020

Under the moniker Hymn, the British threesome of trumpeter Chris Dowding, violinist Sylvia Hallett and electronicist David Ross present extemporized slices of understated minimalism distinguished by aching melodies emerging from a granular scratchy undertow. They maintain a taut balance between repetition, movement and noise on three tracks recorded live in London and Norwich, with outcomes variously ...

Silence, Then Birds

Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Silence, Then Birds; Camouflage, Last Peace; Ourselves, Our Bodies.

Reduced

By Sylvia Hallett

Label: The Orchestra Pit Recording Company
Released: 2010
Track listing: Gewgaws; Leaning on a lamprey; From across the tracks; Strange Power! I trust thy might; Only tulle; Notched like harps; Betty Martin; Silent is the house; Try turning it upside down; We drank in great houses; Shudder to think.

Sylvia Hallett / Mike Adcock: Reduced

by Nic Jones
October 9, 2010

The Spontaneous Music Ensemble lineup of drummer/cornetist John Stevens and soprano saxophonist Trevor Watts can, for countless reasons, serve as the template against which many another freely improvising duo can be gauged. That's an especially pertinent point with Reduced, as multi-instrumentalists Sylvia Hallett and Mike Adcock have fashioned a dialog every bit as rarefied as the ...

White Fog

By Sylvia Hallett

Label: Mash Productions
Released: 2001

Sylvia Hallett: White Fog

by Glenn Astarita
October 1, 2001

Multi-instrumentalist, Sylvia Hallett turns to the bicycle wheel as a means of musical expressionism on this recording also featuring the artist’s utilization of digital delays, voice improvisation, and violin. Ms. Hallett’s resume includes involvement with the “London Musicians Collective,” British free jazz pioneers, saxophonist Lol Coxhill, vocalist Phil Minton and others, yet here she pursues shifting ...

Let's Fall Out

By Sylvia Hallett

Label: Mash Productions
Released: 1994

Skimming

By Sylvia Hallett

Label: Mash Productions
Released: 1992