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Actress review – techno maverick dials up the sonic subversion | Musique Non Stop

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Actress review – techno maverick dials up the sonic subversion

Barbican, London
Darren Cunningham’s music has never been easy listening, and this gig with the London Contemporary Orchestra pushed deep into unconventional territory

As classically trained musicians scrape piano strings, bash a double bass and replicate a kickdrum rhythm with a scrunched-up plastic bag, techno maverick Darren Cunningham, AKA Actress, nods contentedly, a hooded figure in black at the heart of the sonic subversion.

Despite having announced the end of Actress in 2014, Cunningham has resurrected the guise for a collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra. It’s the fulfilment of his long-stated desire to make “classical stuff for a modern generation”, and despite him having spent the last eight years distilling the elements of dance into genre-irrespective visions of dystopia, this project, titled Momentum, pushes things even further.

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by Betty Clarke via Electronic music | The Guardian

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