Audio Work
Stan's Café’s long term collaboration with musician and studio engineer, Jon Ward, led to the CD titled Pieces for the Radio Volume 1, tracks from which were played on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction as well as at The Big Chill Festival.
It was followed by Pieces for the Radio Volume 2: Comfort Hour. The CD was an hour long improvised piece recorded by the cast of Lurid and Insane and produced by Brian Duffy with text by James Yarker. Sections from this were also played on Late Junction.
So Bring Me Down, an audio adaptation of Ocean of Storms, was produced by artist/musician Jony Easterby and Brian Duffy. It was commissioned by Andrew Chetty for NOW98, Nottingham's annual performance festival for their radio station, NOWFM, and released on their CD.
I See With My Eyes Closed was a collaboration with composer Michael Wolters commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) which makes the audience privy to the thoughts of two audience members at a classical music conference.
The company's second collaboration with Wolters resulted in The Voyage, a 12 long minute opera commissioned by PRS for Music for the Cultural Olympiad, staged at Stan's Cafe's venue. The show used a seating back on wheels to extend the stage from an intimate space to the start to a 30m long running track in the middle and back to the intimate space for the close. The piece was composed for ensemble of one singer, a double bass, and thirteen recorders - two of which play microtonally. This piece was recorded and broadcast by Radio 3 and later staged at the Hayward Gallery as part of the 20x12 Festival.
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