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Total Immersion: Iridescence

BBC SO Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics

Wavy black lines across spanning the length of the image, suggestive of sound waves. In the centre of the image is the outline of a quaver. Around it are blue circular swirls.

The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – 'symphonic' in the ancient Greek meaning 'harmonious'. 

'I sit here on the perfect end of a star / watching light pour itself toward me…' When electronics or per-recorded sounds combine with human voices, they start to fuse and metamorphose, opening new horizons and creating sounds that neither could achieve unaided. For the Lithuanian composer Juste Janulyte, it’s a chance for creative dialogue - both with the musical past, and with any number of possible futures. 

So, what more poetic way to begin our Total Immersion than in the wonderland of symphonic electronics? Then the young professional voices of the Guildhall Session Singers join student and staff producers and composers of the Guildhall’s Electronic & Produced Music Department for the world premiere of an exciting new collaborative song cycle of 12 ‘moments’ for 12 voices and electronics.

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This performance will end at approximately 2pm. There will be no interval. 

Co-produced by the Barbican and BBC Symphony Orchestra

Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

Address
Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Nearby public transport
We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

Car and bicycle parking
We have free bicycle spaces and paid car parking spaces available