Sounds of Now Saxophone Electronics

Running time: around 1 hour and 45 minutes (including an interval) TENNEY Saxony (25’)TASSIE O Suns - O Grass of Graves world premiere (10’)LAIDLOW Content (30’)ZUCCHI/LAIDLOW Interfaces Improvisation (15’) Praised for his “urgently visceral” playing (Tempo), London-based Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi performs a programme of innovative works for saxophone and live electronics. James Tenney’s groundbreaking ’Saxony’ (1978) sees a shimmering wall of sound built from tape delay and saxophones of every size, while Benjamin Tassie’s new work, ’O Suns - O Grass of Graves’, explores the fragile sound world of the saxophone’s delicately unstable multiphonics.