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Magic happened at the\u00a0Barbican when Actress joined forces with the London Contemporary Orchestra.<\/p>\n

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Everyone knows London’s Barbican is culture central, a place where the boundaries of art are consistently pushed and experimented with. When we heard super-producer Darren Cunningham – aka Actress – was going to perform with the London Contemporary Orchestra we knew we were in for a night of innovation and, well, music-magic.\u00a0Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0sent writer\u00a0Matt Soczywko to capture\u00a0the performance for us.<\/p>\n

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In the Barbican\u2019s literature for tonight\u2019s performance Actress, or Darren Cunningham, acknowledges the spiritual connections between this evening and techno forbear Derrick May\u2019s earlier collaborations with orchestras.<\/p>\n

On the surface the comparison works – classically trained musicians transcribe and translate the work of a techno auteur into traditional instrumentation, but there\u2019s nothing so literal as orchestral readings of seminal techno records on show here. Cunningham and the London Contemporary Orchestra are contemporaries with a shared purpose – exploring and expanding on Cunningham\u2019s compositions by fusing the electronic and acoustic elements into a new sound.\u00a0The result is part musique concrete – where Actress and the LCO naturally meet – as plastic bags and prepared pianos are scraped and rippled to synthesise a new sound.<\/p>\n

Early on Oliver Coates\u2019 cello is allowed a rare moment of solo exploration following Moroderesque synth rumbles – an anchor that is soon cast asunder. The resulting sound of the violin and viola is stunning – Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s seminal soundtrack for Alien<\/em> being the closest comparison.\u00a0As with all of Cunningham\u2019s productions, there is a core concept at the heart of tonight\u2019s performance. Inspired by the LAGEOS satellite (or \u2018LAGOS\u2019 as the setlist would have it), familiar snippets and embedded melodies of Cunningham\u2019s work are stretched out, embedded with new elements \u2018applying data to some of the tracks\u2019 notes and frequencies, to change things in an arbitrary and quite brutal way\u2019 in Cunningham\u2019s own words.<\/p>\n

Stunning, evolving visuals on a triptych of screens accompany the performance – we\u2019re given the perspective of the satellite, or perhaps an otherworldly being, getting closer to and finally exploring a planet slowly revealed to be our own Earth. Perhaps this is how Cunningham sees the world, and it\u2019s this Ghettoville <\/em>that he soundtracks.\u00a0Those who came looking to dance tonight (and apparently a few did) leave disappointed, but perhaps enlightened. A leaked set release stated that the show would close on Hubble<\/em> – the closest thing Cunningham has to a crowd pleaser. Instead he leaves the stage to the sound of a lullaby as if played from a musical mobile. A gentle fuck you to those who would try pin him down, or wrap up tonight in a pre-existing narrative.<\/p>\n

The Actress project isn\u2019t dead and neither is its uncompromising nature.<\/p>\n

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Words<\/strong>:\u00a0Matt Soczywko<\/p>\n

Photography<\/strong>: Tom D Morgan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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