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Feb 2010
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Christianskirche
Hamburg, Germany
Pièce de Résistance (1998)
Robert Engelbrecht
for piano fourhanded:
Robert Engelbrecht
Jan Feddersen
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Jan 2010
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klub katarakt 31 Festival
Kampnagel, Hamburg, GermanyComposition 1960 #7
La Monte Young
in a setting of
Marian Zazeela
Dream Light
Charles Curtis, Director
with
Reynard Rott and Nelly Boyd Ensemble
Charles Curtis, cello
Reynard Rott, cello
Robert Engelbrecht, cello
Peter Imig, violin
Jan Feddersen, electric guitar with e-bow
Jens Röhm, electric guitar with e-bow
Charles Curtis is also playing a solo recital at the festival,
performing music by Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier and Tobias Hume
Jan 22 - 7 pmNelly Boyd also appears at the opening night,
performing John Cage Radio Music
Jan 20 - 7:30 pmNelly Boyd appears in the final night,
performing pieces by Robert Engelbrecht, Peter Imig and Rhys Chatham
in an extended guitar orchestra cast:
Jan 23 - 8 pm
program under www.klubkatarakt.net
tickets under www.kampnagel.de
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OUT NOW:
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CD-release on TOUCH
Nelly Boyd's recording of Phill Niblocks One Large Rosethe 46 minute long piece is part of Phill Niblock's new double-CD TOUCH STRINGS. Other tracks are Poure (Arne Deforce, cello) and Stosspeng (Susan Stenger and Robert Poss, guitars)
"...the quivering overtones are marvellously smooth and pure; it's as though an occult creature with birch bark skin laid eggs of perfectly smooth stainless steel." [the wire, UK]
"The attack and decay of the notes, mentally visualizing the effort
applied by the performers in a precise moment, all make “One Large Rose” the most visceral Niblock music on record to date – and also one of the most humanistic." [bagatellen.com]"One Large Rose" is a contrast between chaos and order, oscillating between drifts of sound that are relatively peaceful, and hellish choruses of unadulterated noise." [brainwashed.com]
"At 76, Phill Niblock may very well be viewed as avant-garde's answer to Sun O)))" [ambientblog]
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Autumn 2009
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Nelly Boyd presents:
20 years ROTE FLORA anniversary
celebrating for the 20th anniversary of the squatting of the Rote Flora, Nelly Boyd presents music for electric guitar orchestra with local and international guests.
Works by Rhys Chatham, Robert Engelbrecht, Jan Feddersen, Peter Imig and Phill Niblock
#0 of Nelly Boyds forthcoming guitar events B.m.t.H.o.A.G. - Bring me the Head of Alfredo G, conducted by Robert Engelbrecht.
Thu, October 1, 2009, 8 pm
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October 9 - London
Nelly Boyd Ensemble + Phill Niblock
One Large Rose at Serpentine Gallery
The Concert is part of the Park Nights, the Gallery’s acclaimed programme of public talks and events in the temporary Pavilion 2009 by Sejima and Nishizawa.
Fri, October 9, 2009, 7:30pm
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October 28 - Cologne
Nelly Boyd Ensemble + Phill Niblock
Visual Sounds - festival music intermedial
also LASSE MARHAUG + JOHN WIESE
(first German concert by this noise duo from Norway & USA)presented by:
gerngesehen+ auf abwegen
at
Kunststation St Peter, Cologne
Wed, October 28, 2009, 7:30pm
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October 29 - Cologne
Nelly Boyd - THE MISBOYD PROGRAM
also JENNY Q CHAI
presented by:
gerngesehen
visual sounds – music intermedialat
Herz-Jesu-Kirche
Zülpicher Platz, Cologne, 8 pm
Thu, October 29, 2009, 8pm
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Past Events2009
- One Large Rose, at Rote Fabrik, Zürich
- misboyd #11, at Blurred Edges Festival, Christianskirche, Hamburg
- Nelly Boyd presents: Eliane Radigue Portrait; Naldjorlak II + L'ile re-sonante, Blurred Edges Festival may 09, Hamburg
- Phill Niblock + Nelly Boyd + Trio Scordatura; Flowers, Hamburg , Kampnagel
- Alvin Lucier at klub katarakt festival; three days of concerts, installationsand performance, Kampnagel Hamburg, 01/2009
- Nelly Boyd presents: Terry Riley- #5 in a row of <in C> presentations of the hamburg network, Haus 73, Hamburg
2008
- celebrating Phill Niblock's 75th Birthday; world premiere of One Large Rose; three concerts at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
- "believe – worry – listen, James Tenney" at klub katarakt 27 Festival, Haus 73, Hamburg
- "Tribute to Christian Wolff“ at Blurred Edges Festival, Christianskirche, Hamburg
- Blurred Edges Festival, Christianskirche, Hamburg2007
- Blurred Edges Festival, Christianskirche, Hamburg
- brandshof festiv, Hamburg2006
- Nelly Boyd presents: klub katarakt export, Terry Riley <in C> Haus 73, Hamburg
- John Cage Variations at Blurred Edges Festival, Christianskirche, Hamburg
- "Four Rooms" at Stile der Stadt Exhibition, Hamburg
- klub katarakt 26 Festival, Kulturforum Altona, Hamburg2005
- "Nelly Boyd in the heath“ 27. Internationale
Studienwoche für zeitgenössische Musik, Glockenhaus, Lüneburg
- "Peeping John #2 – Nelly Boyd in research“, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg
- "Peeping John #3 – Nelly Boyd in resonance“, Galerie Ebene+14, Hamburg
- “Nelly Boyd in cabaret trash electronics” Fool’s Garden Theater, Hamburg2004
- "Peeping John“, 3 days of programme at Galerie Hinterconti, Hamburg
- Experimental Intermedia, New York
- Butt-Club, Hamburg
- Festival Der negative Horizont, Podewil, Berlin
Repertoire (2004-10)
Moxi Beidenegl
Über die Notwendigkeit von seismischen Bewegungen (um manche Strukturen zu bewegen), (2004) for Computer, voice and guitar
Quartet in E (2004), 4 Guitars + BassJohn Cage
Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) for prepared piano
4’33’’ (1952) for any instrument or combination of instruments
Concert for piano and orchestra (1957-58):
- Solo for violin 1
- Solo for cello
Solo for voice 1 (1958)
0’00’’ (4’33’’ No. 2) (1962)
Variations IV (1963)
Variations VI (1966)
Litany for the whale (1980)
Five (1988) for any five voices or instruments
One3 (1989)
Four6 (1992)
Radio Music (1956)Rhys Chatham
Guitar trio (1977)Robert Engelbrecht
Drohne 4 (1999/2007) für vier E-Gitarren
Konzert für E-Gitarren (Pièce de résistance No. 2) (2001)
Quartett (2002) für vier Stereotonbänder
Drohne 3 for e-guitar and solo-instrument (1999-2008)
Drohne 8 (2004) for e-piano
Drohne 5 (2000-2008) for four e-basses
Jan Feddersen
Quartett III (2006) für Violine, Cello, Fender Rhodes, präpariertes Klavier
5 instrumente (2008)Morton Feldman
Intermission 5 (1952)
Piano Piece (1952)
Durations 1 (1960) for alto flute, piano, violin and cello
Durations 2 (1960) for cello and piano
Nikolaus Gerszewski
expressis verbis (2007)Ignatz
Sexy frequencies (2004) für 4 or more computers, noisegenerator und percussion
Unexpected (2004) for any metall Percussion-instrument, 2 computers +2 mikrophones
Up still down (2004)
Up still down 2 (2005)Peter Imig
40 HZ Gamma-Oszillationen (2004) mergence for sinewave-generators, computers + 5 musicians
Carlos Castaneda (2004) for 5 e-guitars and tape
Fünf (2005)
Jagdszenen (2005)
4 (2007) for organ, e-guitar, e-bass, cello and sinetones
80 Hz (2008)
6 (2008) for church organ, cello, violin, e-organAlvin Lucier
“I am sitting in a room” (1969)
Canon (2007)
Still Lives (1995)
Silver streetcar of the orchestra (1988)
Bird and person dyning (1975)
Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator, and One or More Reflective Surfaces (1990)
Music on a long thin wire (1977)
Vespers (1968)
Indian Summer (1993)
Ever Present (2007)
Broken Line (2006)
Still and moving lines of silence in families of hyperbolas (new version 1984):
- Part III Number 11: Violoncello
- Part III Number 12: Violin I
Music for cello with one or more amplified vases (1993)Phill Niblock
Guitar too, for four (1996)
Sethwork (2003)
Pan Fried (2001)
Summing II (1985)
Five More String Quartets (1993)
One Large Rose (2008)
Tow By Tom (2005)
Steve Reich
Clapping music (1970)
Terry Riley
in C (1964)
Jens Röhm
Hinterconti-ysis (2004)
Fine day circle (2004)
Mind the gap I+IV (2005) for ensemble
Klopstock + Meta (2007) for 3 mikrofones + delay-system
Mind the gap II+III+V (2008) for ensembleJürgen Sosnowski
OMFUG (2005)Karlheinz Stockhausen
Aus den sieben Tagen (1968):
Richtige Dauern
James Tenney
Postal Pieces:
- Swell Piece (1967)
- Swell Piece No. 2 (1971)
- (night) (1971)
- Koan: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion(1971)
Christian Wolff
For Five or Ten People (1962)
For 1, 2 or 3 People (1964)
Prose Collection (1968-74):
- Crazy Mad Love
- Song
Metal and Breath (2007)LaMonte Young
Composition 1960 #7
Nelly Boyd is a composers' collective and performing ensemble, founded in 2004 in Hamburg, Germany. Its members come from different backgrounds such as sound art, classical composition, live-electronics, electroacoustic music, rock and free improvisation.
As a collective, Nelly Boyds' purpose is to help realize each members musical ideas.
As an ensemble, they perform repertoire pieces and commissions by composers which are inspiring, interesting and exemplary to them, with a strong taste for the American 'classical avant-garde'.
Nelly Boyds programmes are often developed uniquely according to the performance space and its properties.
Among others, they have presented works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, James Tenney and have played with Phill Niblock, Christian Wolff and Alvin Lucier.
Nelly Boyd appears regularly at the festivals 'Blurred Edges' and 'klub katarakt' in Hamburg and has performed at Podewil/Berlin, Experimental Intermedia/New York, Serpentine Gallery/ London, Issue Project Room/ New York, Rote Fabrik/ Zurich
Nelly Boyd Kreis
Neue Musik
c/o PeterImig
Geversberg 8, 21220 Seevetal, Germany
Tel/ Fax: +49- 4185 797107
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Contact: info@nellyboyd.org
