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Award winning classical music.
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“The most talented group of musicians in London.”
“emotionally-moving on a whole new level”
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Peek into Black Wasteland
by Hangrui Zhang and LightSounds
A preview of the breadth of what LightSounds is all about, Peek into Black Wasteland is an uncompromising convergence of analogue and digital music, visual arts, and mixed media. Unfolding across three distinct sets, the production fuses experimental theatre, live instrumentation, and projection art into a cohesive aesthetic whole.
The performance draws together powerful cinematic storytelling about the alchemical transformations driven by humanity's deepest fears and desires. Extending Lychen’s work of BLACK WASTELAND (2025), which examined how symbols and signs participate in the constitution and reconfiguration of the world, it reconstructs notions of Time, Body, Language and Existence through the lens of a new central proposition: becoming — how the subject generates itself.
The journey begins with the layered liquid light projections of Pat Grimm, intertwined with Reuben Sutherland's performative electronics. This textural landscape then shifts, making space for the dynamic brass and woodwinds of Charlotte Keefe on trumpet and Rianna Henriques on flute and saxophone, their live improvisation set against the striking experimental films of Pierre Bouvier Patron, showcasing a masterful interplay of visuals and sound. Finally, the night culminates in two movements from Black Ash — the latest chapter in the Black Wasteland series — conceived through a collaborative dialogue between Hangrui Zhang, Yuchen Li (Lychen) and the Rothko Collective.
Expect a relentless, beautiful collision of improvised electronics, traditional acoustics, analogue projection, and pre-composed art music. Come in, strap in, and surrender to the experience.
Rothko Collective has fast become one of London’s most innovative and exciting young contemporary music ensembles.
Through infusing and incorporating our influences of theatre, cinema and dance, we create bold, exciting, immersive, and unapologetically unique musical experiences for our audiences, as part of our aim of ‘un-boring’ the concert hall, welcoming in new faces to the highest calibre music of today.
Alongside our portfolio of highly moving and successful live performances, we have
commissioned over 25 new works from the UK’s top emerging composers, and released
3 albums, including collaborations with State51, Apartment House, and the record label
another timbre.
We were featured on BBC Radio 3 as part of Caroline Shaw’s ‘composer of the week, have performed at Cafe OTO, and have been lucky enough to take part in some of Europe’s top festivals - including the Biennale musica Venezia (IT).
A freeform ensemble consisting of strings, percussion, wind, and the occasional signer or 3, our group is composed of London’s top emerging artists in the field of new music, having worked independently with Riot Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Explore Ensemble, EXAUDI, 12 Ensemble, Chineke!, and the Britten Sinfonia.
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