Harmonic Space Orchestra

25/11/2024

A wonderful audience and experience performing the closing concert at this year’s HCMF - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

12/11/2024

In recognition of James Tenney’s concept of harmonic space, we will celebrate the late American composer’s 90th birthday with a rendering of one of his Postal Pieces from 1971.

Additionally, we will reflect on the work of under-recognized Australian composer Elsie Hamilton, who led the earliest known collective practice of just intonation performance and composition in the 20th century.

Contemporary perspectives on just intonation composed specifically for the group in 2023 by members Ellen Arkbro and Thomas Nicholson complete the program, investigating group-based resonance through harmonic fusion and roughness.

Program:
• Elsie Hamilton (arr. Rebecca Lane and Thomas Nicholson), Poor little human being. Little child of Time! (from Sensa) (1917–19)
• James Tenney (interp. by HSO), For Percussion Perhaps, Or… (night) (from Postal Pieces) (1971)
• Ellen Arkbro, Night and day (2023)
• Thomas Nicholson, Minimal surface (2023)

Harmonic Space Orchestra: M.O. Abbott (bass trombone), Ellen Arkbro (trumpet), Judith Hamann (cello), Jonathan Heilbron(contrabass), Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone flutes), Thomas Nicholson (viola), Michiko Ogawa (bass clarinet), Lucy Railton (cello), Cat Lamb (voice)

25/10/2023

Shortly, we're heading east on a small tour. A brief outing around the Gulf of Finland, with a small subsection of the full ensemble. See you there!

OCT 28: BERLIN, KM28
OCT 30: TALLINN, AFEKT Festival
OCT 31: HELSINKI, Äänen Lumo
NOV 1: TURKU, HIMERA Festival

Program:
Thomas Nicholson - Minimal Surface II [2023], wp
Marc Sabat - Jean-Philippe Rameau [2012]
Catherine Lamb - The Additive Arrow [2021-22]
TALLINN ONLY: Additional piano works by Marc Sabat and Liisa Hirsch

with:
Rebecca Lane, flute
Weston Olencki, trombone
Marc Sabat, violin
Thomas Nicholson, viola/piano/synthesizer
Lucy Railton, cello
Catherine Lamb, voice

With generous support from and thanks to the Goethe Institut.

16/05/2023

MAY 20 at Emmauskirche, 20:00
Harmonic Space Orchestra and Julia Holter present Tashi Wada's new composition, "Hour of the Star".
Presented by The American Academy in Berlin and Deutsche Bank.

19/03/2023

Preparing for our performance tonight at Edition Festival in Stockholm — a new composition by Ellen Arkbro.

19/11/2021

Last night : a wonderful experience for a subgroup of members to revisit works of James Tenney in the fantastic Cologne venue "Basement" as part of the "reiheM" concert series.

Thank you Hanna Bächer, Frank Dommert and reiheM for the invitation.

Rebecca Lane, flutes and voice
Sam Dunscombe, clarinets
Michiko Ogawa, clarinet
M.O. Abbott, trombone
Marc Sabat, violin
Thomas Nicholson, viola
Judith Hamann, cello and voice

playing

For Ann (rising), Swell Pieces 1-3, Harmonium 7, A rose is a rose, KOAN, CELLOGRAM, (night)

14/10/2021

04/10/2021

Working on Zarlino
🎥 : Rebecca Lane
In this cycle, Marc Sabat : viola, Deborah Walker : cello, Judith Hamann & Yannick Guédon : voices, Thomas Nicholson : portative.

03/10/2021

5 pm concert tonight in Albi, France.

02/10/2021

Preparing for our concert tomorrow at Festival riverrun in Albi, France. Looking forward to our first concert performance of "Gioseffo Zarlino" 🎉

28/09/2021

This coming Sunday we will be performing Marc Sabat's "Gioseffo Zarlino" in a 40-minute version at Festival riverrun in Albi France.

Festival riverrun, #5 > Marc Sabat & The Harmonic Space Orchestra - 𝘎𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰 𝘡𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘰

📅 DIM 3 OCT — 17H — Théâtre des Lices, Albi
🎟 5€/Gratuit | Réservations : https://riverrun.festik.net

En collaboration avec les musiciens·nes du collectif Harmonic Space Orchestra, le compositeur canadien Marc Sabat cherche des points d’exploration et de dialogue entre différents modes d’expérience et traditions culturelles. La pièce qui sera créée à 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘯, est inspirée des travaux du compositeur et théoricien italien de la Renaissance Gioseffo Zarlino.

Cyprien Busolini : violon
Marta Garcia Gomez : harpe
Yannick Guédon & Judith Hamann : voix
Rebecca Lane : flûte microtonale basse
Thomas Nicholson : orgue positif
Fredrik Rasten : guitare
Marc Sabat : alto
Deborah Walker : violoncelle

Avec le soutien de l’Adda du Tarn

📷 Mareike Yin-Yee Lee