Premiere of New Music 20x12 commission

Warwick Arts Centre celebrates the Cultural Olympiad on 3rd March 2012 in an afternoon of music and table tennis, with a Musical Promenade culminating in the premiere performances of Joe Cutler’s new work for the Coull Quartet and four table tennis players, with film by Tom Dale.

Photo: Ed Moore

The Arts Centre will be filled with fun activities on the themes of Ping!

Come and try your skills against the table tennis robot, watch a tournament, or join a table tennis workshop with some of England’s top players.

Musical Promenades will take place at 12.00, 2.00 and 4.00 and will last about an hour. To book your free places on the Promenade please contact the Warwick Arts Centre box office on 02476 524 524 or visit their website at www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Further performances of Ping! are scheduled for 6th May at AE Harris, Birmingham http://livebrum.co.uk/2012/05/06/the-voyage and 16th June at the HAKA Sports Centre in Bromley, Kent. The final performance of Ping! scheduled so far will take place at London’s South Bank Centre during a special event to celebrate the Cultural Olympiad that will take place between 13th and 15th July. More details of all these events to follow!

Click on the link below to see artist Tom Dale’s impromptu edit of footage taken at the first Ping! workshop on 15 April last year:
Link to Tom Dale's Ping! video

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New Music 20x12 - Ping!

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a prestigious New Music 20x12 commission, with composer Joe Cutler, to celebrate the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.  The new work, ‘Ping!’, will be scored for string quartet and table tennis players, and will feature a soundtrack and video installation in collaboration with the video artist Tom Dale.  The work will explore the strong and distinct sounds and rhythms that table tennis players can create, and it will be performed at Warwick Arts Centre, Birmingham Conservatoire and the Fusion Table Tennis Club in Bromley. It will also be broadcast on Radio 3 and featured in tours, currently being planned, of the UK, China and Brazil.  Our partners in the project are the University of Warwick, Birmingham Conservatoire, Ping London and the Fusion Table Tennis Club, Bromley.

We are really excited about this award and are looking forward to taking Ping! to all sorts of unusual venues.  Our hope is that this project will enable us to give many hundreds of people their first taste of live string quartet music, as well as giving our regular concert promoters an opportunity to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games!

New Music 20x12 is a UK wide programme which consists of twenty outstanding
new works, each lasting 12 minutes, which have been commissioned to feature
centre stage of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.  Each commission will be
broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and tour the UK, enabling as many people as possible to enjoy excellent new music as part of our celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

These commissions are full of the energy, hope and excitement that will emanate
from across the Cultural Olympiad and the Games themselves. They are inspired
by the dynamism of Olympic and Paralympic sports, the passion of human
endeavour so central to the Games, and the once in a lifetime opportunity of
creating a musical work contributing to a global celebration.

 New Music 20x12

PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music 20x12 is a UK-wide commissioning programme initiated by Jillian Barker and David Cohen, and delivered in partnership with the BBC, LOCOG, Sound and Music and NMC Recordings. See www.prsformusicfoundation.com for more information.
New Music 20x12 online brochure

Links:

Joe Cutler: http://www.joecutler.com
Birmingham Conservatoire: http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire
Ping London: http://pinglondon.com/
Fusion Table Tennis Club: http://www.bromleytt.co.uk/
Warwick Arts Centre: http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/
University of Warwick: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/
Tom Dale: http://www.daletom.com
ETTA: http://www.englishtabletennis.org.uk/

 

Arts Council England: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Creative Scotland: http://www.creativescotland.com/
PRS for Music Foundation: http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/
Arts Council Northern Ireland: http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/
Arts Council of Wales: http://www.artswales.org.uk/
Incorporated Society of Musicians: http://www.ism.org/
Musicians Benevolent Fund: http://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/
Jerwood Charitable Foundation: http://www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org/
RVW Trust: http://www.rvwtrust.org.uk/
The Tolkien Trust: http://www.tolkientrust.org/
The Leche Trust: http://www.lechetrust.org
The Worshipful Company of Musicians: http://www.wcom.org.uk
The Bliss Trust: http://www.blisstrust.org/
Finzi Trust: http://www.geraldfinzi.org/