Commissioned by Sound UK for The Planets 2018
Venus/Zohreh
Events for this work
Royal Academy of Music: Side by Side
The Ligeti Quartet performs with students from the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), in a programme focused on György Ligeti's Ramifications as part of the composer's centenary celebrations.
PRS for Music concert
Simmy Singh – guest violin 1
Patrick Dawkins – violin 2
Richard Jones – viola
Val Welbanks – cello
Sounds like THIS Festival
To kick off their 10th anniversary year, Ligeti Quartet take a snapshot tour of music by some of the most exciting and genre-defying composers working today in the UK and around the world.
Consciousness
What does the brain sound like? Neuroscientist and composer Cliff Kerr explores what happens when performers become composers by translating their brain activity in real time into musical scores. Leveraging recent advances in non-invasive EEG hardware and time series analysis methods information is extracted from the brain.
Consciousness
- 6:45pm: Pre-concert talk with Cliff Kerr
- 7:30pm: Concert
What does the brain sound like? Neuroscientist and composer Cliff Kerr explores what happens when performers become composers by translating their brain activity in real time into musical scores. Leveraging recent advances in non-invasive EEG hardware and time series analysis methods information is extracted from the brain.
Classical Sheffield
Ligeti Quartet perform a programme for International Women’s Day, featuring three pieces composed for them: Singing Strings (commissioned with the support of the RVW Trust), Mento Mood (commissioned by Cheltenham Festival) and Venus/Zohreh (commissioned by Live Music Sculpture &