Talk & Concert: Howard Skempton (accordian)

Distinguished composer Howard Skempton introduces and performs his 'austerely beautiful, sparse, decidedly enigmatic music.' (The Guardian).

The melodies and chord patterns he uses may be commonplace, familiar, or even ­banal, but once we step into his world, we don't hear them like that any more. By stripping everything away except what is ­essential, Skempton's music clears a space for us to hear sound as sound, letting the ­gentle play of pattern seep deeply into our ­consciousness. At this point, simplicity becomes marvellous, complex, astonishingly beautiful. We see familiar objects in a new light, as we'd never seen them before, transformed. (The Guardian)

Skempton      works for accordion

Part of Folkestone New Music’s Music Club.