Electrifying percussion and piano duo GBSR (George Barton and Siwan Rhys) present work by, and with, one of Europe’s leading free improvisers and experimental violinists, Angharad Davies.

Three works about the shifting dynamics of relationships and the new perspectives granted by death and its enforced changes. Empty Spaces II uses samples of Angharad Davies’s violin playing (recorded in empty rooms of a disused building) to allow Siwan Rhys to ‘play’ the absent soloist. The violin is used as a jumping-off point for an exploration of absence and a clearing of imaginary space. Rydal Mount (for GBSR and Davies) is a piece rooted in the familiar task of house emptying  – in this case the score is constituted by a series of photographs of items collected and discovered by Davies while clearing a relative’s house, the piece breathing new life into a frozen, inaccessible time. Davies’s amazing solo ‘unravelling’ of the violin, Solo Violin and Four Bass Amps, completes the programme.

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