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Two musicians playing water-powered mechanical musical instruments on the banks of the River Rivelin. They're wearing waders while someone on the banks of the river records the music using a long-arm microphone over the water. Two musicians playing water-powered mechanical musical instruments on the banks of the River Rivelin. They're wearing waders while someone on the banks of the river records the music using a long-arm microphone over the water.

© Benjamin Tassie (2023)

© Benjamin Tassie (2023)

Live Music: Benjamin Tassie - A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time

Thu 30 November 2023 , 7:30pm-9pm

Weston Park Museum

Join composer Benjamin Tassie for an unmissable live performance of his album A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time, featuring water-powered mechanical musical instruments, field recordings made in the Rivelin Valley, a microtonal harpsichord, synthesisers, Medieval rebec, and more. 

 

Collaborating with the instrument-maker Sam Underwood, Benjamin designed and built three water-powered historical instruments: a harpsichord, hurdy-gurdy, and hydraulis (or water organ). Powered by the river, the instruments produce sound mechanically. Waterwheels turn to ‘play’ the harpsichord and hurdy-gurdy, while the water organ is sounded as water displaces air within the instrument (a system based on an Ancient Greek design). 

Benjamin’s work features in the current exhibition, City of Rivers, at Weston Park Museum. The exhibition will be open to view before and after the performance. 

Doors at 7.30, performance to start at 8pm

Benjamin has been chatting to Now Then Magazine about his music – read the interview here

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Two musicians playing water-powered mechanical musical instruments on the banks of the River Rivelin. They're wearing waders while someone on the banks of the river records the music using a long-arm microphone over the water.

Still from A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time.

© Benjamin Tassie (2023)

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