'Bold Tendencies': London Contemporary Music Festival, Peckham multi-storey car park, London, 25–28 July, 1–4 August 2013. (3rd January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Armstrong, Newton
• Is Part Of: Tempo. Volume 68:Number 267(2014)
• Page Start: 63
• Page End: 65
• Publication Date: 2014-01-03
• Subjects: Music -- Periodicals; Music -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Music -- 21st century -- Periodicals; 780.78
• DOI: 10.1017/S0040298213001393
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-2982

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="text-abstract"> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>There is a certain audacity to four young curators adopting the title 'London Contemporary Music Festival' for their first large-scale collective venture. For a festival that deliberately sets out to sidestep the musical establishment, there's an aspect of calculated provocation in the appropriation of a title that would seem to be the preserve of that establishment. The gesture, however, goes some way further than staking a symbolic claim. At the same time as the curators (Aisha Orazbayeva, Sam Mackay, Igor Toronyi-Lalic and Lucy Railton, in collaboration with the commissioning body Bold Tendencies, based at the Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park) have effectively bypassed the establishment networks and funding structures, they have set out a clear alternative narrative about how contemporary music may yet be practised and understood.</p> </abstract>