Lawrence Casserley studied Percussion, Conducting, Flute, Organ and Piano, as well as Composition, at the Chicago Musical College. As a post-graduate student at the Royal College of Music in London, he continued studies in Conducting and Percussion. While his subsequent performance work has focussed primarily on electroacoustic performance, his Conducting and Percussion experience have continued to play a role. He has been particularly associated with improvised music, music theatre and intermedia, through his work with the groups 'Hydra', 'Tube Sculpture' and 'Electroacoustic Cabaret'. His current work with improvisers such as Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Rainer Bürck, Roland Graeter and Melvyn Poore uses his computer processing and percussion experience. He also uses vocal material and instruments of his own invention.
|
1969; |
First Electroacoustic Concerts at Royal College of Music, London, UK |
|
1970 - 1972; |
Multi-Media Concerts at ILEA Cockpit Arts Centre, London, UK |
|
1970 - 1990; |
Close association with the Improvisation Group, later called the Experimental Music Group, directed by John Lambert at the RCM |
|
1971; |
UK Premiere of Stockhausen "Mixtur" at RCM |
|
1972; |
Performances at ICES 72 Festival, Roundhouse, London, UK |
|
Founded Hydra Multi-Media Ensemble, in collaboration with Eddie Franklin-White |
|
|
1972 onwards; |
Performances with Sound Poets, principally Bob Cobbing |
|
Performances with Hydra |
|
|
1978; |
'The 70s Meet the 20s', Goethe Institute, London |
|
- concerts and workshops with Gruupe Oeldorf, Köln and Hydra, London |
|
|
1979; |
UK premiere of Stockhausen "Trans" at RCM |
|
Directed performance of Stockhausen "Mikrophonie I" at RCM |
|
|
1980; |
Created electronic processing system for John Lambert "Waves" with Redcliffe Ensemble |
|
1980 onwards; |
Flute and Electronics concerts with Simon Desorgher |
|
1981; |
Created electronic processing system for John Lambert "Time and Tides" with London Sinfonietta |
|
1982; |
Created electronic processing system for Edwin Roxburgh's "Saturn" - RCM Orchestra |
|
1984; |
Founded Nettlefold Festival, West Norwood, London, UK with Simon Desorgher |
|
1984 onwards; |
Tube Sculpture concerts featuring "World's Largest" Panpipes |
|
- designed and built by Simon Desorgher and Lawrence Casserley |
|
|
1985 onwards; |
Electroacoustic Cabaret performances |
|
1987; |
Performances at 'Festival Horizontes', Punta Negra, Peru |
|
1988; |
'Sounds Unusual' festival on the South Bank, London - a new set of Giant Panpipes was built and played for the first time at this festival |
|
RCM Electronic Studio 20th Anniversary concert |
|
|
- Conducted Barry Anderson "Arc" |
|
|
- and UK premiere of Halffter "Variations on the Resonance of a Cry" |
|
|
- concert also included World Premiere of Stephen Montague "Sound Round" |
|
|
1989; |
Nettlefold Festival moves to Clapham Common, South London |
|
and takes place entirely within the Colourscape inflatable sculpture |
|
|
Electroacoustic Cabaret at Stockholm Festival of Electronic Music |
|
|
1989 onwards; |
Music in Colourscape performances |
|
1990; |
Music in Colourscape at 14os Encontros Gulbenkian de Musíca Contempoanéa, Lisbon |
|
1992; |
Electroacoustic Cabaret at Aarhus Festival |
|
Electroacoustic Cabaret and Music in Colourscape at Welsh Garden Festival, Ebbw Vale |
|
|
Created electronic processing system for John Lambert "Accents" with RCM 20th Century Ensemble |
|
|
1993; |
George Benjamin "Antara" with London Sinfonietta |
|
1993 - 1995; |
Development of new Colourscape Performance Sculpture for the Nettlefold Festival Trust, |
|
funded by Foundation for Sport and the Arts and the National Lottery |
|
|
1995; |
Concerts with contemporary tubist Melvyn Poore |
|
Computer processing for Barry Guy "Gaia" with LJCO at Colourscape Music Festival |
|
|
1996; |
Work at STEIM, Amsterdam and BEC, Bonn |
|
Tube Sculpture tour of Spain |
|
|
Performances with Bärbel Nolden at BEC, Bonn |
|
|
1997; |
Project at STEIM, Amsterdam, 'The Emancipation of the Technology', working on |
|
development of the Signal Processing Instrument for improvisation. |
|
|
Performances with Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Simon Desorgher, Richard Durrant, Roland Graeter and Rainer Bürck in Delft, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Connecticut College, Brighton, London, Mannheim, Dresden and Paris |
|
|
Release of CD "Solar Wind" with Evan Parker on Touch (TO:35) |
|
|
1998; |
Performances with Evan Parker in Germany and UK |
|
Sonic Arts Network Conference, Birmingham with John Palmer |
|
|
February; Soundart Festival, London; Digital realisation of Ferneyhough "Time and Motion Study II' |
|
|
March; 'Making New Waves' Contemporary British Music Days - Budapest, Hungary - Lecture, Workshops and performances with Melvyn Poore and Paul Lytton |
|
|
LUSTfest - Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, including internet link performance with musicians in Nice. |
|
|
April; Release of CD "Live at Les Instants Chavires" with Evan Parker, Noel Akchoté and Joel Ryan on LEO Records (CD LR 255) |
|
|
April/May; Tour of Germany and Austria with Melvyn Poore |
|
|
May to August - 'Tube' and 'Bubble' performances in southern UK |
|
|
August to October - Colourscape Music Festivals in York, Clapham and Fenland |
|
|
November - New quartet with Melvyn Poore, Peter Cusack and Nicolas Collins performs in Ulrichsberg, Austria |
|
|
December - UK Tour with the Evan Parker Electro-acoustic Ensemble |
|
|
1999; |
Performances in York, Frankfurt, Fenland; London; Vienna, Brighton, Barcelona, Valencia, Cambridge; CDs - "Al-Jabr", "Music of the Spheres", "Drawn Inward", "Labyrinths" released |
|
2000; |
Installation "Rainbow Realm" with Peter Jones at Liverpool Museum Performances in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Liverpool, Glasgow, York, Fenland and London Tour of Japan with Evan Parker, Paul Lytton and Joel Ryan Founding of group HyperYak with Michael Ormiston, Jeff Higley and Simon Desorgher |
|
2001; |
Installation "Chromatic Harmony" with Peter Jones at "Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibition in York Performances in Spain, Liverpool, York, Fenland and London CD "Dividuality" with Evan Parker and Barry Guy released on Maya Records Installation opens at New Lanark World Heritage Site, Scotland, in collaboration with Peter Jones |
|
2002; |
"Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibitions in Croydon and Kaiserslautern Performances in Turkey, Norway, France and UK - including Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble at Ultima Festival and Huddersfield Festival Solo CD "The Edge of Chaos" and HyperYak CD "Angelic Weaponry" released by Sargasso |
| 2003; | Spring Tour - performances in Brussels, Vienna, Klosterneuburg, Ulrichsberg, Kirchheim, St Augustin and Köln
"Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibition in Lisburn, NI Colourscape in Newbury, London, Liverpool and York Performances in London, Cardiff, Sao Paulo, Biel/Bienne Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble in Rovereto and Donaueschingen Autumn tour with dancer Sebastian Prantl in Saarbrücken, Köln and Münster Electroacoustic Ensemble CD "Memory/Vision" released by ECM |
| 2004; | Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble in Barcelona and Porto
"Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibitions in Sheffield and Gloucester Colourscape in Newbury, London, Liverpool and York Other performances in Sheffield, Brighton, Glasgow and London |
| 2005; | Colourscape, ColourDome and "Bubble" shows in Redditch, Newmarket, Liverpool, Exeter, London, Rotherham, Carlisle and York
"Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibition in Carlisle Other performances in London, Brighton and Cardiff CDs "Iskra3" (psi) and "The Eleventh Hour" (ECM) released |
| 2006; | Carnival of e-Creativity, Delhi - duo with Indian singer Aparna Panshikar
Performances in Münsingen, Stuttgart, London, Kortrijk and Trossingen Colourscape and ColourDome performances in London, Rotherham, Köln, Croydon, Exeter, Bideford and Carlisle "Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibition in Scarborough |