Happy Easter friends.. things here have been intense and April’s not slowing down!
3 weeks now until Ruthless Jabiru and Ensemble Offspring‘s one-night-only collaboration BLACK ICE at Peckham Levels and it’s been so heartwarming to see all of you out there buying tickets.
If you haven’t yet, this is your chance to get out from behind the desk and let your imagination unwind with us for 75 minutes. You don’t need to know anything about music, orchestras, composition, concertgoing.. you just need to be in the room and let the experience wash over you. The sounds you’ll witness will stimulate your mind as well as your ear; spark ideas, memories, conversations.. who knows, maybe you’ll meet someone there!
So get your tickets, get yourself out of the house, share this one night with us. We’ll be at the onsite bar afterwards to celebrate Ruthless Jabiru‘s 15th anniversary and can’t wait to hear your impressions. Tickets are flexibly priced to suit a range of budgets—if you really want to come but the cost is prohibitive, message me. And if you can help us by writing about the project, concept, artists, performance or by sharing through your own broadcast/media channels, checkout our press release here and let’s talk.
If you can’t make it to Peckham Levels on 24 April..
Meanwhile I’m off to Budapest this week for Classical:NEXT, really looking forward to connecting with likeminded creatives, organisations and visionaries to talk collaboration! Here’s my feature on the Sounds Australia page [click to read] and if you’re coming, join us at the booth for networking drinks at 16:30 this Thursday.
Been side hustling it a lot at Barbican lately—supporting awesome friend Tansy Davies plus 4 shows calling cues for LSO Live:
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March listening includes a guest mix for Sound and Music‘s The Sampler Mixtape on Resonance FM. Signup for my experimental mixtapes as-they-happen at: kellylovelady.com/category/mixtapes
The Sampler Mixtape on Resonance FM: Hosted by Kelly Lovelady
“A foray into my curatorial laboratory as I develop a programme around birdlife and bushfire.”
Tracklist
00:00 — Intro
00:36 — Ruth Theodore: Buffalo (Cactacus, 2016)
03:44 — Florence Anna Maunders: Not Getting Out (Villiers Quartet, 2021)
08:50 — Zhou Deming: Joyous Xinjiang 欢乐的新疆 (Mantawoman: Sun 陽, 2017)
13:19 — George Crumb: Apparition – Vocalise No. 1: Summer Sounds (Zubin Kanga & Jane Sheldon: Chiaroscuro, 2015)
14:22 — Nneka Cummins: 3 Planets – III (Philharmonia Orchestra/Robin O’Neill: Philharmonia Composers’ Academy Vol. 6, 2023)
16:18 — Mietze Conte & Otto Benson: Shut Up (Hobby’s, 2024)
16:44 — Emily Doolittle: Social Sounds from Whales at Night (Catherine Lee: social sounds, 2013)
25:22 — Nwando Ebizie: I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) (Zubin Kanga: Machine Dreams, 2023)
30:37 — Errollyn Wallen: Triple Concerto – II. (Kosmos Ensemble & Worthing Symphony Orchestra/John Gibbons, 2018)
41:06 — Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie: Horror Scene as Black English Royal (captioned) (Another Noise, 2024)
43:44 — Bex Burch & Leafcutter John: In the moments (Boing!, 2021)
48:24 — Balladeste: Interlude (Conversations in Ritual, 2023)
50:32 — Arlene Sierra: Painted Bunting (Steven Beck: Birds & Insects, 2025)
52:04 — Gabriel Prokofiev: Voyage III – Cloudburst from Suite for Global Junk (Joby Burgess/Powerplant: Import/Export, 2010)
54:22 — Nina Harries: Prayer (Water, 2022)
58:32 — Outro
Thanks as ever for all your support this month—the virtual and actual coffees, the lunches, cakes, wine and laundry loads! And as always for your likes, shares, reposts, messages and donations.
See you at BLACK ICE, Friday 24 April at Peckham Levels!
