Event

Live music performance: Utyugon

21 May 2014

Event times

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 7:00pm - 9:30 pm

Cost of entry

free

Calvert 22 Foundation

London, United Kingdom

Address

22 Calvert Avenue
Shoreditch
London
EC2 7JP
United Kingdom

Calvert 22 Foundation

Travel Information

55, 48, 242, 78, 47, 26, 67, 149, 243, 8, 35, 135, 388
1 minute walk from Shoreditch High Street
10 minute walk from Liverpool Street or Old Street

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About

Location: St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch Cultural historian and BBC broadcaster Alexander Kan discusses the history of the utyugon an instrument created in the 1980s by artists Timur Novikov and Ivan Sotnikov out of scrap metal, domestic irons and a wooden kitchen table. Kan will chart their associations with the Russian rock band Kino and the Popular Mechanics orchestra and the New Composers. Followed by a live music performance on a custom-built utyugon, with Ivan Sotnikov and Aza Shade, lead singer of London-based no wave band Manflu. Free entry. Booking is essential.