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Goldsmiths College - Recital Room 167 (Main Building)

Thursday 20 April 2006 : 7:30pm


Norman Adams - cello + electr.

Sebastian Lexer - piano+

This recital will be the first public outlet of a 
new project between two musicians, exploring the 
timbral and textural extensions of their acoustic 
instruments by electronic means, in a freely 
improvised setting.

admission free

with kind support of the EMS studio.



Norman Adams

Canadian cellist, Norman Adams is Principal 
Cellist of Symphony Nova Scotia, and an 
improviser and electronic musician eager to 
explore many different styles of music, sound 
creation and performance. Norman has been a 
featured soloist with SNS, and Les Jeunes 
Virtuoses de Montréal and has performed chamber, 
and improvised music throughout the US and 
Canada. His performances have also been heard 
across the country on CBC Radio One and Two.

Since 2000 Norman has been the Artistic Director 
of suddenlyLISTEN Music, producing concerts of 
strange and exciting music, both for soloist, and 
with a broad range of collaborators. Over the 
past ten seasons Norman has collaborated 
extensively as a performer, improviser and 
composer with Halifax dancer/choreographer Gwen 
Noah. Together they have performed over fifty 
concerts around Nova Scotia, and in several tours 
across Canada.

Norman has collaborated with composer/performers 
Barry Guy, David Mott, improvisers Ladonna Smith, 
Pauline Oliveros, Peggy Lee, Rufus Cappadocia, 
and Lee Pui Ming. In October 2005 Norman 
performed in, and created electronic music for 
Unplugged, Susan Cook's choreography for dancer 
and cyclists.

In 2006/2007, Norman will be featured as soloist 
with Symphony Nova Scotia, perform a concert of 
the music of Morton Feldman, play chamber 
concerts with the Talisman Ensemble, perform a 
new work with Gwen Noah Dance entitled The Secret 
Show; suddenlyLISTEN will present concert 
collaborations with artists including Jerry 
Granelli, Sebastian Lexer and others.

Sebastian Lexer

After moving to London in 1995, Sebastian 
completed his studies in 2001 with an MMus in 
Performance and Related Studies at Goldsmiths 
College, University of London. During this time 
he had been studying composition with Roger 
Redgate and piano with John Tilbury. In 2003 he 
has commenced his studies with a PhD thesis on 
Live Electronics in Live Performance.

Over the last five years a growing interest in 
the application of electronic elements in 
performance settings and free improvisation has 
inspired a focus on the development of 
interactive music systems. The developments been 
frequently applied in live performances in 
various ensembles and collaborations with John 
Tilbury, Eddie Prevost, Roger Redgate, Michael 
Parsons, Jonathan Impett and many other musicians 
from the international improvising scene. He 
organises the acclaimed concert series INTERLACE 
at Goldsmiths College presenting free 
improvisation, electronics and interactive 
compositions. Freelance software development 
projects have included projects for Emmanuelle 
Waeckerle (VINST) and Roger Redgate.

Sebastian is currently working as a Visiting 
Tutor at Trinity College of Music, Goldsmiths 
College, Thames Valley University, Brighton 
University and teaches summer and weekend courses 
of Max/MSP at Goldsmiths College.

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