Sonia Paço-Rocchia: composer - sound artist - performer - bassoon improviser - live electronics musician

CoMA is an ensemble I am involved with, that has for aim to develop and perform a repertoire of contemporary music that is playable for any standard without having to compromise the quality of the music. It is a very interesting challenge for composers and if they success, the music would be played extremely musically because amateur players do it because they like contemporary music, and often put the time needed to understand the music.

Last autumn CoMA London worked with Paul Morley who decided to study composition at the Royal Academy of Music without having any classical training. We played sketches of his music and we also performed his piece in a concert in the Royal Academy of Music, 3rd March 2009. Here we can find some intermediate videos of his work to make a complete documentary based on this one year of learning composition.

How To Be A Composer With Paul Morley
Episode 1
Episode 2

I’ll be there with

Invisible Ink: Interactive installation with a pen that produce sounds
This Way Up: Piece for performer/singer and box with live electronics

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Thursday, 16 July 2009
18:30 - 19:30
Shoreditch Library
80 Hoxton Street, N1 6LP
London

Entry to this event is FREE.

Come and see a library like you have never seen it before! Watch the books as they watch you, while actors, dancers, musicians and artists make their own journeys, finding their way around their surreal house of words... Sit down, walk around, get as close as you wish to the action, as every corner you turn reveals a new surprise and if you are feeling brave - join in!

A 60 minute performance in Shoreditch Library, featuring more than 50 musicians, actors, singers, rappers, performance/sound/installation artists, exhibitionists, bands and ensembles - all performing at the same time! Also featuring work by several American artists who have created pieces to be given away to the audience. There will be plenty to do: events and new poetry will be available for you to read, or you can just sit back and read the books already in the library, watch the live simultaneous performances, absorb the visual art, take part - enjoy yourself!

Performers/contributors include: Graham Dunning & Louise Bolla, Sonia Paço-Rocchia, Adam Delacour, Neil Luck, Ella Jarman-Pinto, Mikhail Karikis, Vicki Princewill, Jill Thomas, Buffy Sharpe & Kirsten Morrison & Peter Shipman, Kate Collinson, Daniel Davies, Annouchka Bayley & Jan Maat, Brian Inglis, Andy Ingamells, Christopher Scobie, Edwige, George Chambers, Richard Thomas, Kate Newell & Inda Yansané, Sam Luck & Michael Neaves, Therese Bann, Iana Ianakieva, Nathan Thompson (Strepzil), Paul Burnell, members of Consortium5, The Readers (group of ten), donotplaythiside (Stu Crane & Andy Page & Chris Crask), Bäär Rupert, Nico Bentley, Joshua Kaye, Christina Brodie, Simon Katan, Jude Cowan, David Wallace, Shama Rahman, Kathryn Faulkner, Andreas Grant, Iva Lokajickova, Matthew Lee Knowles, Andrew Carson, Giorgio Sadotti, Santa Sprees (Anthony Dolphin), Reid Wood, Jane Wang, Allan Revich, Daniel Barbier, Harold Colin Cowherd and Keith Buchholz

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