The second concert in a short season from London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. Sarah Walker introduces a recital given last Sunday by the American duo James Avery
(piano) and Steve Schick (percussion) Dieter Mack Lalangan
Brian Ferneyhough Bone Alphabet Charles Wuorinen Percussion Duo
Mario Davidovsky Synchronisms No 6 Younghi Pagh-Paan Pyon-Kyong Ian Willcock A Book of Maps
The music is interspersed with two extraordinary readings of his own texts by Australian vocal artist Chris Mann : I Don't Hate America. I Regret It
(S Freud) and Virtuoso Thinking for
Several Invited Words. These inhabit a world somewhere between poetry and music, humour and hysteria. Producer Alan Hall