Next show: Brussels, Thu 12 Nov
An underground neoclassical artist.
Chinese-British composer Theo Alexander writes energetic, intricate music using piano, tape loops, synthesisers and more. Preoccupied by themes of memory, repetition, and decadence, his compositions are often ecstatic, splicing melodic patterns together to create complex, affecting and restless structures of sound. His experimental approach has been driven by the use of cassette tapes as a musical device, and an eagerness to subvert the acoustic qualities of the piano through electronic counterparts. After a number of demos, he released Points Of Decay, a collection of extensive experiments pairing cassette loops and field recordings with the piano. These dense and often harsh pieces were followed by Broken Access, which built on the analogue textures of earlier works with more dynamic and expanded compositions. Described by NPR as drawing a ‘fine line between order and disorder’, his following album Animadversions was made up of radically reconstructed pieces from his earlier years, many of them transformed from melancholic meditations into bright, aggressive arrangements that brutally re-examined earlier themes.
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Theo Alexander plays contemporary classical and ambient music, blending neoclassical piano compositions with experimental tape loops and field recordings.
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Theo Alexander is a London-based Chinese-British composer and pianist.
His compositions primarily feature the piano combined with four-track cassette recorders, synthesizers, and live tape loop manipulation.
