After Dinner Event: 'All Saints Sessions present: Ultra Sound' (E5), Friday 13th November 2020, 9-10 pm
Cheryl Moskowitz and Alastair Gavin’s fusion of poetry and sound with special guests poet Isabelle Baafi, and musicians Malcom Ball and Ian Burdge.
Find your headphones and immerse yourself in a magnificent fusion of sound and poetry. Cheryl Moskowitz and Alastair Gavin have devised an innovative performance especially for Poetry in Aldeburgh 2020! With guest musicians Ian Burdge and Malcolm Ball, alongside poet Isabelle Baafi. All Saints Sessions is innovative poetry and electronics performance series running since 2017, which features a changing line-up, with a guest poet and musician collaborating to create a special one-off performance. Words, melody and sound textures converge and synergise to form something new and uniquely immersive and memorable. Cheryl Moskowitz is US born poet, novelist and playwright and formerly, actor and psychotherapist. Her pamphlet Maternal Impressions if forthcoming in Spring 2021. Alastair Gavin is a keyboardist, arranger, composer for artists ranging from Mari Wilson to the Michael Nyman Band, and was assistant musical director on Mamma Mia! Isabelle Baafi is on was shortlisted for the 2019 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and her debut pamphlet, Ripe, is published this autumn. She is a board member of Magma. Malcolm Ball studied piano and later electronic music and composition at the Royal College of Music London. He has played at venues such as South Bank, Royal Albert Hall, 100 Club and Ronnie Scott’s Club. He is one few exponents in the UK of the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument developed in France. Ian Burdge is a session cello and electric cello player. He co-founded The Millennia Ensemble, recording for artists including Travis, David Gray, Paul McCartney and Luciano Pavarotti.
