D A V I D   P O C K N E E

Concert Organization

WEISSLICH (2014-2017)

www.weisslich.com

Between 2014-2017 myself Louis d'Heudieres and Michael Baldwin curated a concert series called WEISSLICH that programmed work on the boundary of experimental music and performance art. A list of the events can be seen below.

W10 | 20.10.2017
Richard Craig, Emilie Gallier, Lotte van Gelder, Jon MacCallum, Teoma Naccarato, Mark Reiner, Jon Roskilly

W9 | 13/14.01.2017
Ensemble Pamplemousse, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh & Emma Bennet, Robert Blatt

W8 | 23.07.2016
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh & Ilze Ikse, Lilian Beidler, Kara Feely, Louis d’Heudieres, Charlie Sdraulig, Ben Zucker

W7 | 30.04.2016
G Douglas Barrett, Carolyn Chen, Eleanor Cully, Cathy van Eck, Louis d’Heudieres, Andy Ingamells & Maya Verlaak, Solomiya Moroz, Jennifer Walshe

W6 | 23.04.2016
G Douglas Barrett, Carolyn Chen, Cathy van Eck, Ben Jameson & Mark Knoop, Neil Luck, Solomiya Moroz

W5 | 09.01.2016
Michael Baldwin, Stephen Chase, Stephen Crowe, Georgy Dorokhov, Fabrice Fitch, Louis d’Heudieres; feat. Alice Purton, Samuel Stoll

W4 | 30.10.2015
Robert Blatt, Eleanor Cully, Beavan Flanagan, David Pocknee & Ana Lemnaru, Leo Svirsky, Jennifer Walshe

W3 | 04.07.2015
Tim Cape, Edward Henderson, Louis d’Heudieres, Andy Ingamells, Luke Nickel, Leo Svirsky, Christian Wolff

W2 | 14.02.2015
Michael Baldwin, Louis d’Heudieres, Matthew Lee Knowles, Alex Nikiporenko & Ruben Zilberstein, David Pocknee, James Saunders

W1 | 03.05.2014
Peter Ablinger, Michael Baldwin, George Brecht, Louis d’Heudieres, Andy Ingamells, Alison Knowles, Jammie Nicholas, David Pocknee, Charlie Sdraulig; feat. Ilze Ikse, Elo Masing

hcmoff

HCMOFF - Concert of Rejects (2015)

Created with BaconJam and Linda Jankowska

"HCMOFF will be presenting works submitted to its open call for musicians rejected by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival’s “shorts” programme along with other up-and-coming performers.
…off the beaten track, off the radar & off piste…

"Did you have an application for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Shorts 2015 rejected? Then we want to hear from you!
hcmoff 2015: Concert Of Rejects is a fringe event of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and is in no way affiliated with the festival itself. hcmoff aims to provide up-and-comingmusicians with a valuable platform to perform for members of the public, media and key music industry representatives whilst these parties are resident in Huddersfield during UK's leading new music Festival. For its inaugural event, hcmoff requests works which were rejected for the HCMF Shorts in 2015, to be performed in a fringe event happening in Huddersfield during the main festival. If you have applied for an HCMF Shorts slot in 2015 and been rejected, we want to hear from you!We will program a selection of rejected proposals on 26th November 2015 at 18:30 in Coffee Kabin, 37-39 Queensgate, (opposite the University) in Huddersfield during the festival"

Line-up

Kathryn Williams
Alvin Lucier – 947
Bastard Assignments
Tim Cape – Ear Piece
Tim Cape – At The Very Least
Kathryn Williams
Brian Ferneyhough – Unity Capsule
Bastard Assignments
Ed Henderson – Blow/Suck
Andy Ingamells
Packaged Pleasure
INTERVAL
Michael Baldwin
Beavan Flanagan – no sweeter sound than my own name
Edges Ensemble
Pauline Oliveros – Four Meditations for Orchestra

application form | website | more information

Some Sadomasochistic Aspects Of Musical Pleasure (2012)

created with Ana Smaragda Lemnaru, Miguel Peres dos Santos, and Leo Svirsky

An evening of work by David Pocknee, Leo Svirsky, Ana Smaragda Lemnaru & Miguel Peres dos Santos. Chaos. 17+ pieces. And the best thing I've ever done. A performance featuring 30 people on the 18 May 2012 at Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL

Some Sadomasochistic Aspects Of Musical Pleasure (zine) | programme

Stockhausen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years Of Sodom and Gomorrah (2011)

created with Acid Police Noise Ensemble and Anonymous Stateless Immigrants

An epic, three hour long evening of music, theatre and performance exploring the dimensions of terrorism, violence, hysteria and the growing physical and virtual security market intelligence, exactly ten years after the collapse of New York's World Trade Center. Performed on 11 September 2011 at Nutshuis, Den Haag, the evening utilized the entirety of Het Nutshuis, presenting 15 different performances, often simultaneously.

Much Too Much Noise (zine) |Extraordinary Renditions (album) | anonymous stateless immigrants

documentation

Off-Off Broadway (2011)

17 April 2011

"Off-Off-Broadway is conceived as a concert for any pieces too long, dangerous, unconventional or experimental for the traditional concert settings of the rest of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Spring Festival Concerts. It will be held at the Delta Centre of Contemporary Art (http://www.deltacentre.blogspot.com/) on Weimarstraat 300, Den Haag on Sunday 17 April at 19.00."

Line-up

Robert Blatt/David Pocknee - New Piece
Corné Roos - Ritual Playing Cards/On Electricity
Pernille Lonstrup - Choir of Noise
Ascoli Ensemble
Anna Mikhailova - Ponte de sospiri
Grzegorz Marciniak – I am the Board
Darien Brito - "Throw me" (or logical response to a annoying situation)
Ben Richter - You Are Safe And Not Alone
Maxim Shalygin - Two hours in reservoir
Dagga Dagga

Performing work by others

Quad

created with Sophie Fetokaki

and Eleanor Cully, Gaia Blandina, David Pocknee, Rodrigo Constanzo, Johnny Hunter, Fred Thomas, Maurizio Ravalico, Vera Goetzee, James Jean-Luc Wood, Colin Frank, Alex Tod and Thomas Weideman

This was fun. Myself and Sophie Fetokaki created four performances of an extended version of Samuel Beckett's Quad in public spaces and car parks around Huddersfield over a period of two weeks. Some with an audience, some with no audience. Sophie later presented this performance on at the Huddersfield festival - not that you would guess I had anything to do with it from reading the programme notes...

photos and videos by Lynette Quek

CAB atrium, Huddersfield University May 16th, 2018

St George’s square May 3rd, 2018

Quad in St. George's Square

Market Hall car park May 2nd, 2018

Car park, Fitzwilliam street April 18th, 2018

Tim Parkinson - Time With People (2014)

An opera that I have performed 3 times, including the premiere. The score is here.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 26 November 2014

Performed by Edges. (John Aulich, Mira Benjamin, Eleanor Cully, Beavan Flanagan, Stephen Harvey, Dorothy Lee, Asher Leverton, David Pocknee, Jo Wherry, James Wood, and Philip Thomas)

video of full performance

Summer City Sounds, London, 28th May 2015

video of performance

London Contemporary Music Festival, 15 December 2015

video of performance

Rock Paper Scissors poster

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS was a concert series by Inlets Ensemble exploring strategies for creating music with non-musical objects. Held at Audiotheque in Miami Beach during the summer of 2015, each concert focused on one object—rocks, paper or scissors—and featured a program of historical and contemporary works.

music by Michael Baldwin, Robert Blatt, George Brecht, Stephen Chase, Luciano Chessa, Jürg Frey, Takehisa Kosugi, Joseph Kudirka, Alex Lough, Gustavo Matamoros, Pauline Oliveros, David Pocknee, James Saunders, Craig Shepard, Mark So and Christian Wolff

website

Grzegorz Marciniak - Środa (Wednesday) (2011)

"Let us imagine getting old and instead of dying and being buried, we choose to be send in space forever. One way ticket to space. We could still communicate with our family and friends on Earth, but at the same time we would get further and further away from them. Till our time is over. 10 years? 20? 50? Our last experience would be of an endless universe."

Winner of the OFF prize at the Przegląd Piosenki Aktorskiej Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

festival catalogue | images

Previous performances

2016

5 August 2016
COMPOSER:
We Doubled Down The Base Camps for Violin and Cello
CAB Atrium, University of Huddersfield
Part of nu:nord

23 July 2016
PERFORMER:
Kara Feely - Map Piece
Ben Zucker - neither/n/nor/n
Weisslich Vol. 8
Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK

6-19 June 2016
COMPOSER:
The Hague, NL
Residency for Digging Piece with Ana Lemnaru, Grzegorz Marcinak, Adam Basanta, and Maya Verlaak at iii.

30 April 2016
PERFORMER:
Weisslich 7 Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester, UK

23 April 2016
PERFORMER:
Weisslich 6 Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK

29 February 2016
COMPOSER:
But I Guess, In The End, We Just Moved Furniture Around for flute and electronics, played by Richard Craig
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK

9 January 2016
PERFORMER:
Steven Chase - Ukelevent #3, Weisslich 5, Hundred Years Gallery, London

2015

15 December 2015
PERFORMER:
Tim Parkinson - Time With People, LCMF, London

5 December 2015
COMPOSER:
Economics played by hot karl, CCRMA, Palo Alto, California
US premiere of Economics by hot karl, along with some writing about it:
Economics performed by hot karl

26 November 2015
hcmoff, Huddersfield
Ed Henderson - blow/suck

31 October 2015
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
David Pocknee - Cipher for the Lighthouse Twins
Robert Blatt - All Together Now
Weisslich 4, Hundred Years Gallery, London

25 October 2015
COMPOSER:
I Can Do Better performed by Leo Svirsky, Phipps Hall, Huddersfield

September 2015
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Various - ROCK PAPER SCISSORS Comcerts, Audioteque, Miami, USA

4 July 2015
PERFORMER:
Leo Svirsky - Aphorisms
Christian Wolff - Looking North
Weisslich 3, Hundred Years Gallery, London

28 May 2015
PERFORMER:
Tim Parkinson - Time With People, City University, London

21 February 2015
COMPOSER:
Performance of For Laborde 1 (2013)
at Null Point 4. With Paper, Buffalo, NY

14 February 2014
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Louis d'Heudieres - for David and Ruben on 14/02/2015
Conditioned
Weisslich 2, Hundred Years Gallery, London

10 January - 15 March 2015
Exhibition of New Fordist work link
Stroom, The Hague, NL

2014

26 November 2014
PERFORMER:
Tim Parkinson - Time With People
HCMF, Huddersfield

November 18 2014
COMPOSER:
Chronotopes performed at Check Cashing by Inlets Ensemble, Miami, USA

12 November 2014
PERFORMER:
Eleanor Cully - Fixations, Sonikab, Huddersfield

17 June
PERFORMER/DIRECTOR:
Fl�skuhnakki / Bottleneck - Jesper Pedersen
Absent Minded Curiosity #2 - Asher Leverton
PPM Book - Ryoko Akama
With Paper - James Saunders
Meander: Monody Etudes - �r�inn Hj�lmarsson
Starving Dog Eats OAP Alive - Andy Ingamells
Time Warp #2 - Maria Gkotzampougiouki, w/ Edges Ensemble, St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK

14 June
SOUNDTRACK:
Prypyiat - Tom Hartford, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln, UK

9 May
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Whistles Whittling - Michael Baldwin
Dripping Piece - Lucie Vitkova
Match Piece (Health and Safety Version) - David Pocknee, Coffee Evolution, Huddersfield, UK

3 May
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Whistles Whittling - Michael Baldwin
Repository #1 Weisslich 1, Hundred Years Gallery, London

10 March
COMPOSER:
Augenmusik IV: Paperwork for flute, clarinet, piano and cello
played by Distractfold Ensemble

2013

17 December
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Schreibzet I - Johnny Herbert
Tape Piece - Andy Ingamells, The Cellar at 20 corby Street, UK

30 November
FILM SHOWING:
New Fordist Organization - Part I, Time Body Viewer, Kadmium, Delft, NL

22 November
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Selections from @textscoreaday - Various, performed with Edges Ensemble, Byram Arcade, Huddersfield, UK

18 November
PERFORMER:
X for Peace Marches - Christian Wolff, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

1 November
PERFORMER:
New Fordist Organization - Part I, Time Body Viewer, Kadmium, Delft, NL

24 October
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Plastic Cup Permutations, La Borde Guitar Collection, Drop it, Dead Dog - David Pocknee
Dripping Piece - Lucie Vitkova, The Cellar at 20 Corby Street, UK

11 September
PERFORMER:
Lighthouse Music - Joe Kudirka, Scheveningen Harbour

22 June
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
New Fordist Organization live-painting "Time Heist" performance at Quartair, Den Haag

23 April-28 June
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
New Fordist Organization is Artist-In-Residence at GEMAK, Den Haag

21 April
COMPOSER:
Chronotope for piano performed by Leo Svirsky

12 March 2013 - Bangor New Music Festival, Wales
Economics performed by Bangor New Music Ensemble
1pm - High Street, Bangor
7:30pm - Powis Hall, Bangor University

17 March 2013 - Villa "Te Koop", Den Haag, 7pm
Solo "comedy" set
w/Yedo Gibson, Ofir Klemperer, Dorien Meijsing, Leo Svirsky

24 January 2012 Studio Loos, Den Haag
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
New Fordist Prototypes
First concert of The New Fordist Organization.
More information can be found here

2012

19 October 2012
INTIME Symposium, Coventry, England
Presenting the paper
Virtuosity, Flow, and Re-Notating Modernism

18 May 2012 Het Nusthuis, Den Haag
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Some Sadomasochistic Aspects Of Musical Pleasure:
For Audience
for Audience
Warehouse #1: Canvas I for Piano
Augenmusik II: Bangscale II: Fantasia for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
Augenmusik I: the grid is a terrible moment for sensitivity and substance (after John Cage and Jordan Mackenzie) [Extract] for Piano
Live Composing � David Pocknee and Miguel Peres dos Santos
The Beauty of European Languages for Amateur Choir
Parameters I: The Myth Of Liberal Democracy for String Quartet
String Trio No. 1 for Plastic Cup Players
Labyrinth II for 2-7 players on one Piano
Parameters VII: Infectious Diseases In Cattle for 4 Dancers
6 October 2011 for Performer
Cotard Etude #3: For JR for Performer
Parameters IX: Coin Flip for Performer
Match Piece (Health And Safety Version) for Performers
Parameters III: My Massive Pollocks - for Saxophone Duo (collaboration with Ana Lemnaru)
Killing Floor for Guitarist

the concert also included:
Twister � Ana Lemnaru
Trauergondel � Leo Svirsky

20 April Grounds, Rotterdam
21 April Bernard Haitinkzaal, Amsterdam Conservatorium
22 April Korzo Theater, Den Haag
COMPOSER:
Augenmusik III: The Picture Of Asko|Sch�nberg for Asko|Sch�nberg Ensemble

12 April 2012 Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag
PERFORMER:
Slide Whistle Piece
- Michalis Paraskakis

19 February 2012 Poortgebouw, Rotterdam
COMPOSER/PERFORMER:
Wood Piece
- David Pocknee
(As part of Acid Police Noise Ensemble's Tearjerker)

11-15 January 2012 Delta, Den Haag
PERFORMER:
Harmonium Burn
- Jeremiah Runnels

2011

16 December 2011 Delta, Den Haag
IMPROVISOR for second iteration of Total Improv

29 November 2011 Heidegger, Rotterdam
PERFORMER AND CO-COMPOSER: Stations - Acid Police Noise Ensemble

24 November 2011 KABK
PERFORMER:
You Cannot Be Killed In Absentia Or Effigy
- Jeremiah Runnels

30 october 2011
15:00-18:00 & 19:30-22:00
-
VillaKabilla, Violenweg 2, Den Haag
PERFORMER AND CO-COMPOSER:
Pro Parte Totum - Acid Police Noise Ensemble

5 October 2011
Delta Center of Contemporary Art, Weimarstraat 300, Den Haag
PERFORMER:
Rooks, Ravens, Crows - Joe Kudirka
A Few Silence - Doug Barrett
Nederlands - Renato Ferreira
Swell Piece - James Tenney
Matter - Joe Kudirka
For Maike Schoorel - Taylan Susam
Head Music - Doug Barrett
Lowlands - Joe Kudirka

11 September 2011 - Stockhausen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years Of Sodom and Gomorrah
Nutshuis, Den Haag
PERFORMER AND COMPOSER:
Asylums for people
Crash for 2 quarter tone keyboards

7 August 2011 - International Computer Music Festival, Huddersfield, England
GUITARIST:
Signal. Entropy. Noise - Robert Blatt

7 June 2011 - Delta, Weimarstraat 300, Den Haag
PERFORMER:
Sacrament - Robert Blatt

27 May 2011 - Korzo Theater, Den Haag
COMPOSER:
For London No. 1 & 2

1 May 2011 - Delta, Den Haag
COMPOSER AND PERFORMER:
Second Proposition: Nothing is Born from nothing (collaboration with Robert Blatt)
For London

20 April 2011 - Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag
COMPOSER:
For London No. 3

17 April 2011 - Delta, Den Haag
COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
Off-Off Broadway Concert
Second Proposition - Nothing is Born from nothing (collaboration with Robert Blatt)

27 March - Delta, Weimarstraat 300, Den Haag -
DHA$ Delta Performance #1 and Afterparty
PERFORMER:
The Future - Graham Flett

25 March - The Maakhaven, Calandkade 156 (Near Hollands Spoor),Den Haag -
19.00 ArtScience: Shock Value concert

COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
The Human Soundipede (First Sequence) - Leo Svirsky

23 March - Rotterdam -
PERFORMER:
Eufortica
- Miguelangel Clerc

26 February 2011 - Yaniv's House, Den Haag
PERFORMER:
The Human Soundipede: First Sequence - Leo Svirsky
COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
Cotard Etude #1: Heart Of Darkness for people.

22 January 2011 - Studio Loos, Den Haag
COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
String Trio No. 1 performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
PERFORMER:
Acid Police Noise Ensemble perform Eufortica by Miguelangel Clerc and No-Instrument String Quartet Jeremiah Runnels.

19 January 2011 - Zaal100, Amsterdam
COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
"Potlatch": A One-Act Aktionist Chamber Opera performed and composed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble

1 January 2011 - Jerusalem
COMPOSER:
Maya Felixbrodt and others perform "Economics"

2010

3 December 2010 - Worm, Rotterdam
COMPOSER & PERFORMER
"Potlatch": A One-Act Aktionist Chamber Opera composed and performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble

11 November 2010 - Studio Loos, Den Haag
ELECTRIC GUITARIST:
pieces for guitars and electronics - Robert Blatt

23 October 2010 - Nutshuis, Den Haag
GUITARIST:
and more Aluminium - Teodora Stepančić

10 & 11 October 2010 - Delta Art Space, Den Haag
PERFORMER:
W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y - Grzegorz Marciniak

23 August 2010 - Synproject Festival Jerusalem, Israel
COMPOSER:
Economics performed by Ensemble led by Maya Felixbrodt

July 2010 - Rijnhof Cemetary , Leiden
PERFORMER:
Cemetary March - Jeremiah Runnels

1 July 2010 - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam
COMPOSER:
String Trio No. 1 (premiere)
COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
Damien Hirst Is A Fucking Fuck (version 2) performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble

13 June 2010 - Arnold Schoenbergzaal, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag
COMPOSER:
Micromanagement performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
PERFORMER:
The Satanic Gospel Of Stefani Germanotta - Leo Svirsky
Micromanagement - David Pocknee
Drink A Beer - Maya Verlaak
that which is below is as above, and that which is above is as below - Robert Blatt
with Acid Police Noise Ensemble

7 June - Studio Loos, Den Haag
COMPOSER:
Economics performed by The D€N HAAG A££ $TAR$ €N$EMB£€)

3 June 2010 - PIP, Binckhorst Complex, Den Haag
COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
String Quartet No. 1 (premiere)
Micromanagement (Movements 1&2) (premiere) performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble.
PERFORMER:
Kyrie - Robert Blatt
Music For Thomas Malthus - Leo Svirsky
with Acid Police Noise Ensemble.

15 April 2010 - Kees Van Baarenzaal, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, 14:00
PERFORMER:
Good Vibrations - Robert Blatt
part of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Spring Festival

14 April 2010 - Studio 1, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, 16:00
GUITARIST:
Gladio - Renato Ferreira
part of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Spring Festival

14 April 2010 - 1st Floor Hall, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, 20:15
COMPOSER & PERFORMER:
Damien Hirst is a F***ing F*** (premiere) performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble and Kate Cunningham.

13 April 2010 - Kick The Can Protest Concert, Binckhorst, Den Haag, 19:00
COMPOSER:
Economics (premiere) performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble and Renato Ferreira
Harmonica player in:
Economics - David Pocknee
Electric Guitar player in:
De Staat - Andriessen (arr. Thomas Aldrich)
The Worst Minus - Leo Svirsky, with Acid Police Noise Ensemble
Reciter in:
Foolin' around with Marvin - Acid Police Noise Ensemble.

Fri 9 April 2010 - Den Haag Koninklijk Conservatorium 20.15
Thu 8 April 2010 - Amsterdam Conservatorium van Amsterdam 20.15
Bangscale (premiere)performed by the Nieuw Ensemble

Monday 15 February 2010 - Nutshuis, Den Haag
Second performance of Fission played by Jan Willem Troost.

Monday 8 February 2010 - Korzo5Hoog, Den Haag
COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR:
...and the photograph makes the woman dead...(premiere) performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble, Hollas Longton and Maya Felixbrodt

2-5 February 2010 - Hammond Organ Festival, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag
Electric Guitar player in
pieces Akiko Ushijima and Robert Blatt;
Hammond organ player in
piece by Jeremiah Runnels,
and conductor in
The Garden of Ryoanji by Louis Andriessen.

2009

19 September - Incubate Festival, Tilburg
COMPOSER:
Fission for Cello and Live Electronics, premiered by Jan Willem Troost.

May - Dag in De Branding, Regentes Theater, Den Haag
Electric Guitar player in
performance of Louis Andriessen's Een, Twee.
Dag in de Branding

April - Spring Festial, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag
Guitar Player in
performance of Robert Blatt's piece for guitar and electronics signal. noise. entropy