Aaron Cassidy: A Painter of Figures in Rooms [Live]

Aaron Cassidy generates new sounds for the human voice by exploring experimental approaches to vocal production with the ensemble EXAUDI. The Olympic idea of pushing the body to physical (and mental, and spiritual) extremes lies at the heart of Cassidy's conception for A Painter of Figures in Rooms.

New Music 20x12 is the brainchild of Jillian Barker and David Cohen who wanted to put new music at the heart of the Olympic celebrations in 2012. It is delivered by PRS for Music in partnership with BBC Radio 3, London 20x12 and NMC Recordings. 

20 outstanding new works, each lasting 12 minutes, commissioned to feature centre stage of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. New Music 20x12 is a UK-wide commissioning programme consisting of twenty new pieces of music, each of 12 minutes in length, celebrating the talent and imagination of the UK’s musical community as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

EXAUDI
James Weeks conductor

AUDIO 

REVIEWS

‘Gold medal for … Cassidy for thrillingly pushing Exaudi to its vocal limits' BBC Music Magazine

FUNDERS

New Music 20x12 Partners

RECORDING CREDITS

A painter of figures in rooms by EXAUDI at the Southbank Centre was recorded by the BBC on 14 July 2012 and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 18 August 2012.

Catalogue Number: NMC DL201215
Release Date: 28 August 2012