exploding alphabets

4th April - Morden Tower - 8pm - £1 with free refreshments.

PERCUSSION SPECIAL!

Surprises are Exploding Alphabet's speciality and this month's event is no different. Presenting a series of percussive & poetic experiments, EA is opening the Tower to all forms of rhythm and spoken word. Collaborations, performance pieces and off-the-cuff sonic walls will materialise as some of the country's finest percussionists and poets present entirely new pieces of work. Musical bangs, word clatters and alphabet explosions come as standard.

Audience participation is a regular feature of EA and whilst supping on your free refreshments, you will be encouraged to make your own instrument and noise. All poets are welcome (only entirely new works are preferred) as are all instrumentalists (feel free to bring an instrument!).

EA 4/4 starts at 8pm sharp in the Morden Tower which is located in the alley at the back of Stowell Street, Chinatown. Alley entrance is next to Rosie's bar, opposite the Chinese Arch.

Mail explodingalphabets@hotmail.co.uk for more.

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"For me there are two considerations in setting text to music. There are the words themselves, which need to be set in the most natural way. With Allen's poetry I was most intent on respecting the music that was already in the words. Then there is the musical environment into which the words are set. In the poem Aunt Rose, for example, I used a 5/8 rhythm — a kind of lopsided rhythm— 1-2, 1-2-3. I heard the rhythm from the description of her toot: it's a picture of someone who walks with a limp. That's the only specific relation of the music to the words. A portrait in music need not be a complete portrait. If you have some indication, we as listeners will fill in the rest." Philip Glass on setting music to Allen Ginsberg's poetry for Hydrogen Jukebox.