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Alex Paxton: ilolli-pop

for ensemble and improvising musician

(2019/2020)

ilolli-pop is a piece written for Ensemble Modern, electronics and improvising soloist. The Orchestra is entirely notated and the solo part is entirely improvised.

Its kind of like this: Like minimal but loads more notes like video-games but with more song like jazz but much more gay like old music but more current like yummy sweet but more stick like paint but more scratch like tapestry but filthily like prayer but more loud like loud groove and more rude like fingers and faces too but somehow more smelly like smelly things cooking with more chew and change like louder prayers that groove with like stinking-hot-pink in poo-brown but even more desperate-like than that like drums and Dream Musics…But you have to listen to it tbh.

(Alex Paxton)

Alex Paxton (b. 1990 in Manchester) possesses a »riotous abundance of love and rage…an extraordinary experience« (The Wire Magazine). An award-winning composer (he is a 2023 Paul Hindemith Laureate and recipient of a composer’s prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation) and improvising trombonist, he is considered »highly innovative…of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force…« (BBC Magazine Ivor Novello, British Composer Awards). He has written extensively for orchestras, new music ensembles, electric devices, jazz musicians, improvisers and children.

In his work, he aims to create the most sensual sonic experience in every moment of every piece, to escape the metaphor of language and tap into tentacular abstract ball of sensation that lies beneath the surface–this is where he finds »the stuff that is real which sticks to breath and fingers.«
»This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages« (New York Times) and »A Brit who defies every conceivable genre boundary…. An extremely modern and future-oriented style.«

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