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Post-rock duo Adam Wiltzie and Brian McBride aka Stars of the Lid bring this year’s Transcender festival to a close with a performance of their expansive ambient music.Starting out as one of the first American post-rock bands of their ilk, Stars of the Lid have grown over the years into something of a cult phenomenon. And watching them live it’s easy to see why – crafting subtle layers of guitars, strings and electronics into huge, shifting soundscapes, their music is something you can’t help but totally lose yourself in. Performing here with an expanded line-up that features string ensemble Echo Collective, Adam Wiltzie’s long-time studio collaborator Francesco Donadello and Bobby Donne from Kranky labelmates Labradford, playing the colossal Moog 55 Modular Synthesizer, Stars of the Lid will revisit previous material and debut new music, accompanied by washed-out visuals from long-time collaborator Luke Savisky and German lighting designer MFO. Audio visual artist Claire M Singer will open this concert performing 'The Molendinar' from her Solas album. A brooding, swelling piece of distorted organ music in which notes float above a building ambience.
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Claire M Singer is a composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music, film and installations. Known for her experimental approach to the organ her work draws inspiration from the dramatic landscape of her native Scotland, exploring rich harmonic textures and complex overtones that create ever-shifting melodic and rhythmic patterns disappearing almost as soon as they emerge. Her three critically acclaimed releases on Touch feature Singer playing both organ and cello (‘..each piece is timeless and genuinely magical’ – The Quietus). Performances include Queen Elizabeth Hall; Glasgow Cathedral; Tate Modern; Westerkerk opening for Low and the Barbican opening for Stars of the Lid. The Guardian wrote ‘Claire M Singer really knows how to wring the best out of this magnificent instrument, creating moments of sustained rapture’ Most recently in December 2021 her solo organ work The Molendinar featured in The New York Times '5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Organ'.
Awards include the Oram Award in 2017 for her innovation in sound and music and the Festival Castell de Peralada Award for best film score in 2019 (Tell It To The Bees). In 2020 her work Gleann Ciùin was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, which was commissioned by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Recent projects include a collaboration with Chris Watson for organ, field recordings, orchestra and choir premiering at her festival Organ Reframed at Union Chapel in 2022.
Singer has been Music Director of the organ at the award-winning venue Union Chapel in Islington, London since 2012. In 2016 she founded the only festival of its kind in the UK, Organ Reframed, which focuses on commissioning and presenting innovative new experimental music, which re-imagines the organ for both artist and audience. Past commissions include Éliane Radigue, Low, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie.
Claire is also Artistic Director of the organ reframed festival at Union Chapel which she launched in 2016. The only festival of its kind in the UK, organ reframed focuses on commissioning innovative new music and introducing new artists and audiences to how versatile the organ is.
‘..each piece is timeless and genuinely magical’ – The Quietus
‘Claire M Singer really knows how to wring the best out of this magnificent instrument, creating moments of sustained rapture’
- The Guardian
‘Singer’s unabashed but unaffected exploitation of the organ’s potential tonal abundance is refreshing’ - Dalston Sound
‘Why have we had to wait this long for this excellent sound to be recorded and released?’ - Norman Records
Read MoreClaire M Singer is a composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music, film and installations. Known for her experimental approach to the organ her work draws inspiration from the dramatic landscape of her native Scotland, exploring rich harmonic textures and complex overtones that create ever-shifting melodic and rhythmic patterns disappearing almost as soon as they emerge. Her three critically acclaimed releases on Touch feature Singer playing both organ and cello (‘..each piece is timeless and genuinely magical’ – The Quietus). Performances include Queen Elizabeth Hall; Glasgow Cathedral; Tate Modern; Westerkerk opening for Low and the Barbican opening for Stars of the Lid. The Guardian wrote ‘Claire M Singer really knows how to wring the best out of this magnificent instrument, creating moments of sustained rapture’ Most recently in December 2021 her solo organ work The Molendinar featured in The New York Times '5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Organ'.
Awards include the Oram Award in 2017 for her innovation in sound and music and the Festival Castell de Peralada Award for best film score in 2019 (Tell It To The Bees). In 2020 her work Gleann Ciùin was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, which was commissioned by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Recent projects include a collaboration with Chris Watson for organ, field recordings, orchestra and choir premiering at her festival Organ Reframed at Union Chapel in 2022.
Singer has been Music Director of the organ at the award-winning venue Union Chapel in Islington, London since 2012. In 2016 she founded the only festival of its kind in the UK, Organ Reframed, which focuses on commissioning and presenting innovative new experimental music, which re-imagines the organ for both artist and audience. Past commissions include Éliane Radigue, Low, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie.
Claire is also Artistic Director of the organ reframed festival at Union Chapel which she launched in 2016. The only festival of its kind in the UK, organ reframed focuses on commissioning innovative new music and introducing new artists and audiences to how versatile the organ is.
‘..each piece is timeless and genuinely magical’ – The Quietus
‘Claire M Singer really knows how to wring the best out of this magnificent instrument, creating moments of sustained rapture’
- The Guardian
‘Singer’s unabashed but unaffected exploitation of the organ’s potential tonal abundance is refreshing’ - Dalston Sound
‘Why have we had to wait this long for this excellent sound to be recorded and released?’ - Norman Records
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