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On September 6th Mira Calix releases "3 Commissions". A mini album running at 36 minutes, the record features pieces specifically commissioned from her by Geneva's Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, London's Royal Festival Hall and The Barbican, and includes two contrasting versions of 'NuNu', her ground breaking interplay between human and insect worlds. NuNu stems from a unique music festival at Geneva¹s Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, where Mira Calix was commissioned to compose a piece of music using recordings of insect noises provided by the museum. "There are more insects on earth than any other living species" she says, "and having the opportunity to mould all the amazing and beautiful noises they make into something other really appealed to me.² The orchestral version of Nunu and Mira Calix made their live debut together at The Royal Festival Hall on 8 March that year as part of the Ether Festival where she performed the track with living insects on stage in a collaboration with The London Sinfonietta. Mira worked and rehearsed with the Sinfonietta and their musical directors Sound Intermedia to create an entirely new arrangement of the piece. This stunning interplay between live insects and the neo-classical strains of The Sinfonietta is also captured on the album. The third commission dates from earlier this year, when she was asked to compose a piece for the reopening of the Barbican's art gallery for the first retrospective of Helen Chadwick¹s work and an exhibit of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti's Mexican Years photographic work. An installation in the conservatory adjoining the gallery space, 'Le Jardin de Barbican (track 6) ran in a continuous loop with speakers hidden among the tropical plants. There will be a launch party for '3 Commissions' at London's Hayward Gallery on 20 August, where Mira Calix will be DJing with Andrea Parker, Plaid and Mark Broom on the rooftop. Details Below. href="http://www.warprecords.com/frameset.php?section=news/ |
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durrrrrrrr |
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mm. could be cool. |
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i really liked nunu. perhaps it will be in it's full form on this release. |
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well, if it's 3 pieces and the total runningtime is 36 minutes, I kind of doubt it. |
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i have skimskitta and, well, its nice, but i get tired of it fast... is nunu or any other release any better? or mira is just mira calix, nice electronic music with logicalautechre influences and the girl touch but nothing deep or innovating?? |
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mmm. the girl touch. "There are more insects on earth than any other living species" Insecta is a class, not a species. but i'll forgive her. |
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I think "skimskitta" has quite a lot of depth. nice details. she has her own style. |
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i love her. plus what qrter said. i'd definitely fly to london that day if i had the cash. |
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I already got the unusual FLYCD1 with my preorder of "skimskitta".. |
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yeah me too I demand a freebie that I would enjoy! |
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NuNu is awful. It sounds like some brilliant field recordings that she's completely ruined with Bad Musics. |
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hey i pre-ordered this and it hasn't arrived yet. i think my postman or neighbors stole it. mainly out of hatred for me. |
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hey it arrived. along with: 0161 compilation - skam ceephax acid crew - ceephad acid crew crunch - the laurel ep cd_slopper - soskiewoxi farmers manual - no backup sote - electric deaf max tundra - mastered by the guy at the exchange cylob - spider report mr 76ix - hits of 76ix freebies: mira calix - nunu (which i already had) artificial intelligence II - warp (on cassette w/ the darrel fitton track. nice!) warpmart mix one cdr (number 69. oh dear.) so far listening to the new mira calix it's great. albeit not completely new. |
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still no dispatch note from warp, strange.... |
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