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Welcome to The Enchanted Forest.
A dream, an installation, a giant knitted world
Last Thursday Nwando performed two brand new pieces of music All the Calm of a Distant Sea and Solve et Coagula for BBC Radio 3's Unclassified Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall (London) presented by Elizabeth Alker. Both pieces were arranged on this occasion for the BBC Concert Orchestra by Mark Knoop and conducted by André de Ridder, accompanied by Nwando's flawless new choreography.
The film, Somewhere, is a collaboration between British-Nigerian composer and musician Nwando Ebizie, The Opera North Orchestra, director Juliet Ellis and choreographer Harriet Waghorn, produced by Disruptive Element Films and ENON Films and starring dancer Jahmiah Simpson.
“Somewhere is a response to the relationship between the creative and the spiritual, visualising a dancer moving between the waking world and the dream world” explains director Juliet Ellis. “Her body explores its relationship to freedom and limitation – as her physicality is being pulled and pushed, her fragility, vulnerability and fierce strength are attempting to coexist.”
Broadcasted on Sky Arts on September 26th and 29th, 2024
Live Performance, Cafe OTO, Monday June 10th, 7:30pm, TICKETS
The Hermes Experiment
Anne Denholm, harp
Oliver Pashley, clarinet
Héloïse Werner, soprano
Marianne Schofield, double bass
Programme:
- Josephine Stephenson - tanka
- Fergus Hall - New commission (supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society)
- Sylvia Lim, Kite (Dymchurch)
- Mira Calix, DMe
- Nwando Ebizie - New commission (supported by the Marchus Trust)
- Elaine Mitchener - the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween
- Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm) - Double Fiesta
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‘If suffering purifies the soul / then I’m as pure as one could hope
A beauty bordering on the obscene…’
Join multi-disciplilary artist Nwando Ebizie and enter a liminal space for a sonic exploration of myth, fairytale and archetypes. A playground of dream soundscapes where influences of experimental dance meet Klezmer, new music meets romantic ballad. The poetry of British Sign Language is danced to create visual music and the space vibrates to create an analogous haptic experience.
This is a multi-sensory theatrical music experience, oscillating from romantic songs to nightmarish visions, intimate reverie and lucid horror.
The music/English text/theatrical BSL was created symbiotically in order to give multiple possibilities for access and understanding whilst creating a unique art-music experience.
Created, directed and composed by Nwando Ebizie, co-produced by Atelier Nwando and London Sinfonietta and supported by Southbank Centre - ‘Fall and then Rise on a Soft Winter’s morning’ is a multi-sensory immersive orchestral/live art experience at Colour Factory (London, UK) happening on 15th Nov 2023 and it is part of Nwando’s approach in creating Accessibility as Innovative Creativity and dismantling and inverting entrenched structural prejudices.
There will be two time slots - people can attend at 7 pm or at 9 pm and the show is one hour long
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Access information:
This takes place in Colour Factory, a nightclub which aims for inclusivity and diversity
The piece lasts for one hour. This is a relaxed performance
There are 3 parts to the music with roughly 10 minutes break in between each one
In the breaks you will be offered warm herbal drinks and popcorn
The audience is invited to explore the immersive environment
You can choose to sit/lie on platforms that vibrate with the music - this is an additional idea to give Deaf people a sense of the music, however hearing people have found this to be relaxing as well
You can choose to sit on beanbags, chairs or stand
You can feel free to move at anytime
There is step-free access to the space
Latecomers are permitted
The performance includes music, captions, a theatrical BSL performance, spoken word
Each show is the same - one ticket covers one show
Lighting:
There are no flashing lights
There is video projected onto giant balloons that you can watch that contains Chisato's signing and captions
Nwando will be performing a solo version of her 2022 album The Swan at She Makes Noise 2023 in Madrid. The festival invites an audience to discover without prejudice the work done by female artists and non-binary identities in electronic and experimental music, as well as in contemporary audiovisuals. The programming continues - in line with previous editions - with an ecofeminist approach, addressing other forms of thinking, listening, learning and dancing.
This 2023, the festival also focuses on artists who bring their magic from Latin America , as well as others from Nigeria, Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom .
Nwando will be performing at 9pm on 19/10
Tickets available here
19.00
26.08.23
Centre for Contemporary arts, Glasgow. Tickets are on sale cca-glasgow.com Pay what you can from £0 to £8
Broadcast live on 87.9FM in the Glasgow area and online at radiophrenia.scot
The Great Unravelling
Two artists - Nwando Ebizie and Tom Richards come together and move apart - entangling themselves and their idiosyncratic polymathic practices (including Black Atlantic ritual cultures, minimalism, formalism, rave cultures, analogue synthesis and machine building, performance art, neurodivergent led sensory design, neurophenomenology) and unraveling again - revealing the core of a constantly expanding Venn diagram. A multisensory, psychedelic, polyrhythmic mythic feast of movement, light, poetry and sound unfolds and you are invited into this liminal space for a spiraling cyclic ritual.
Nwando Ebizie performing at HCMF, Nov 2022
Image Credit: Joby Cato
Nwando Ebizie performing The Swan at HCMF, Huddersfield, Bates MilL Blending Shed, Nov 2022
Photography: Joby cato
Nwando Ebizie at The Printworks, London
Be part of the Brighter Sound multi-sensory and disability-led artistic residency this November and December in Manchester, led by Nwando!
"Self, Sense, Space" encourages connection, collaboration and self-exploration between D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists and musicians from across the UK, with a focus on those from the North of England.
Develop a multi-sensory installation at People's History Museum celebrating their headline exhibition, "Nothing About Us Without Us - Disabled People’s Activism: Past, Present and Future". Find out more and get in touch by Wednesday 2 November > https://selfsensespace.com/ #AllThingsEqual
Self, Sense, Space is presented by Brighter Sound in partnership with People’s History Museum
Brighter Sounds develop the music creators, leaders and industry professionals of the future, with a particular focus on supporting those who are historically and currently underrepresented. Their creative projects, residencies, training and events help people with everything from artistic and career development, to building communities and personal confidence.
Join Nwando for a live performance of The Swan at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2022
Soprano Juliet Fraser returns to City with a programme featuring Alvin Lucier's pioneering work for female voice and pure wave oscillators alongside two brand-new works that respond to the writings of American marine biologist and environmentalist Rachel Carson.
Inspired by Carson's 'Sea Trilogy', Nwando Ebizie enters the world of deep time to draw parallels between the personal and the cosmic; Newton Armstrong explores the image of a constant underwater 'snowfall' of sediment that descends gradually to intensely dark depths, forming a swirling, descending murmuration of diversely particulate matter.
New works commissioned with the generous support of Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, PRS Foundation's Open Fund & RVW Trust.
Nwando chats to Emily Pothast about myth and transformation in issue 463 of The Wire, out now.
Nwando is curating a FREE weekender for The Black Fantastic at The Southbank centre!
The Swan album launch with a free live performance!
Myrrha Released 13th July from forthcoming album The Swan.
Multidisciplinary afrofuturist artist Nwando announces the forthcoming release of her debut album ‘The Swan' via Accidental on 22nd July, following on from the dizzyingly experimental heights of 2021 singles, ‘I Seduce’, and ‘The Swan’.
The project brings together Nwando’s left-field electronic experiments, cross-border musical influences, radical live art practices, and interests in Black Atlantic ritual cultures and speculative fiction.
Alongside the album release, Nwando has been invited to curate a weekend of ‘Black Fabulation’ at The Southbank Centre in London, from 22-24 July.
New single ‘Myrrha’ will be out on 13th July and features samples by Tom Richards made on his analogue DIY synths, and saxophones by regular collaborator and the album’s co-producer Hugh Jones (Crewdson).
Photo: Nat Sharp
Artwork: Maria V.
Design: Charlie Newhouse
Live performance Solve et Coagula.
Commissioned by HCMF, Ebizie’s new piece, Solve et Coagula, performed live.
Nwando is nominated for an Ivor Composer Award!
This week Nwando is recording for an awarded residency, Sound Pioneers as one of the six selected composers who will create original multi-channel audio works during paid residencies at the University of Huddersfield and the University of Hull.
As might be expected for a residency of this kind, the competition was tough, with nearly 70 applications received from composers across the UK and from a range of backgrounds ranging from self-taught to academic. A panel of representatives from YSWN, the University of Huddersfield’s Centre For Research in New Music, University of Hull, hcmf// and Brighter Sound shortlisted applicants before making the final selection. Composers were chosen not only for the quality of their existing music but for their ideas and potential to develop artistically when working in a multichannel setting.
YSWN co-director Abi Bliss says: “The standard and variety of applications for Sound Pioneers was fantastic and it was a difficult job narrowing the list down to six composers. Thanks to the partners who worked with YSWN to make the project possible, these composers will have a unique creative and development opportunity, exploring some amazing-sounding audio facilities. We can’t wait to hear what they come up with.”
Find out more about the Yorkshire Women Sound Network here.
Head over to The Wire for the video exclusive this weekend with The Wire for Nwando’s new single ‘I Seduce’ from her upcoming album ‘The Swan’.
‘I Seduce’ is the first single taken from Nwando’s forthcoming debut album, The Swan, due to be released later this year with Accidental Records. Accompanied by a kaleidoscopic visual by Marta Vorontsova, the single combines Chor chants, Cuban drums, and a jazz-inspired horn line, forging inspired connections between traditional Cuban Haitian, and contemporary sounds, with Nwando’s signature experimental twist.
