Owen Roberts Ensemble
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Owen Roberts is a composer and musician holding a degree in Composition from the University of Oxford. Active in the improvisational music scene, Roberts has participated in a range of performances, installations, and artistic collaborations in Berlin and throughout Europe, and has served as director of music programming for Berlin-based Mindpirates e.V. A solo electroacoustic LP and a double live LP with Raz O’hara are scheduled for release in 2014.
As a recipient of the Berlin Current artistic commission, Roberts' project, Recycled Hyperprism Plastik for Amplified Chamber Ensemble, will be presented at CTM 2014 (January 24 – February 2, 2014) and is inspired by Edgard Varese’s 1922/23 Hyperprism, written as a response to the new electronic world in which the composer lived. As part of an eight-piece ensemble, Roberts aims to extend Varese’s groundbreaking musical language into 2013 not by arranging techno for orchestral instruments, but by embracing the outer limits of acoustic instruments’ percussive, timbral and textural possibilities to create a relevant form of physical, instrumental techno, opening a dialogue between modern electronic music and its Western musical influences.
