Josh Spear’s Tro//ing (2018) is not entirely new, but will be performed for the first time in London as part of City Lit. ‘We put this on at my parents’ house, and it was so upsetting and overwhelming for everyone involved,’ Henderson says, ‘And that’s always been in my mind, that this unbelievable power is there.’ Rowley is also the group’s vocal virtuoso: in her Cake Piece (2014) Henderson cuts a cake onstage, and Rowley vocalises as if she’s the one being sliced. Spear contributes Tro//ing (2018), performed by the group, and Quiet Songs (2019) by Rowley is a new one-person performance for viola, video and voice. Since then, they’ve performed on Radio 3’s Late Junction and at festivals across Europe, and their works have been performed by the London-based Plus-Minus ensemble, devoted to contemporary and experimental music, among others.īastard Assignments will be performing new works at London’s City Lit on 10 and 11 October, including Henderson’s compositions Will (2019), and Hey (2018), Cape’s This (2019), for the ensemble and The Poisoned Glen (2019), played with guest violinist Mayah Kadish. Josh Spear and Caitlin Rowley, Masters students at Trinity with Henderson, showed work at some of these earlier events before officially joining the group the following year. Open source dragthing series#Centred around Edward Henderson and Tim Cape, they put on a series of ad hoc events and club nights in friends’ houses, abandoned churches and anywhere that would have them. The group began around 2012, as an amorphous collective of composition students at London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Their performances combine everything from sound poetry and extended vocal techniques to deconstructions of pop songs and the amplified gestures of mime and drag. They might be miming to sound effects of a vending machine, stripping a house track for parts and scoring it for viola, or stuffing their faces with nauseating amounts of condiments in a particularly perverse bit of choreography. There is no such thing as a typical Bastard Assignments performance: on any one night, you might find the performance collective wandering through a house, fiddling with change purses, marbles, kazoos and brushing their teeth so that paste dribbles onto the floor.
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