Programme

Jennifer Walshe New Work (2025)
(world premiere)(LCMF/Wigmore Hall co-commission)

Clarence Barlow Im Januar Am Nil (1981-84)

W.A. Mozart (attrib.)
Selection of 18th-century Musikalisches Wùrfelspiele (Musical Dice-Games)

plus other festival artists and works

Explore Ensemble return to Wigmore Hall for an evening curated by the London Contemporary Music Festival: The Artist is Not Present, charting the way composers have engaged with AI-adjacent ideas over the centuries. Moving from the age of Mozart to the modern day, we show how startling, amusing and even moving music can be when composers reject the ego and embrace the algorithmic.

Alongside other artists of the concert, the ensemble will present Clarence Barlow’s uncategorisable Im Januar Am Nil (1981-84), which presents resynthesised transformations of a prayer song in algorithmic, spectral, and minimal form. Jennifer Walshe offers a new commission with the ensemble, delving into the musical history and future of computational thinking and artificial intelligence. Plus, an extremely rare outing of a selection of Musikalisches Wùrfelspiele (Musical Dice-Games) – works attributed to or by Mozart