• Menu

    What’s it going to be then, eh?

    The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
    About Anthony Burgess
    • Introducing Anthony Burgess
    • The Books of Anthony Burgess
    • The Music of Anthony Burgess
    Discover More
    • A Clockwork Orange
    • Earthly Powers
    • Anthony Burgess and Shakespeare
    • Dystopian Fiction
    About The Foundation
    • Our Mission
    • Visiting Us
    • The Burgess Bar
    • Support the Burgess Foundation
    • Join our mailing list
    • Contact us
    Anthony Burgess Archive
    • About the Archive
    • Visiting the Archive
    • Object of the Week
    • Contact the Archivist
    What's On
    • News and Blogs
    • Event listings
    • Venue hire
    • Burgess Prize
    • Exhibitions
    • Podcasts
    The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
  • What’s it going to be then, eh?

    OPENING TIMES
    Bar Open for events
    Reading Room Available for pre-booked appointments 10.00am - 3.00pm weekdays
    Office Hours By appointment: info@anthonyburgess.org
    HOW TO FIND US
    Engine House
    Chorlton Mill
    3 Cambridge Street
    Manchester
    M1 5BY
    Nearest train station Oxford Road More information
    Next event
    Hong Kong Film Festival UK: Blue Island 憂鬱之島 Thu 23 Mar 2023 8:00 pm £8.00 More information
  • The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
  • What's it going to be then, eh?

    Exhibitions. New writing. Concert commissions. Academic research. Public events, in venues and online. And at the core of everything, preserving and promoting our extensive Anthony Burgess archive.

    Your donation to the Burgess Foundation supports our mission to promote the life and work of Anthony Burgess in so many ways.

  • What’s it going to be then, eh?

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
what's on

Concert: ENDGAME

  • Mon 30 Oct 2017
  • 6:30 pm
  • Free
share

ENDGAME is an interactive electro-acoustic composition where a chess board is used as a musical instrument and tool to compose a musical world. This project is a collaboration with Adam Hart (University of Salford).

ENDGAME is perfomed by YOU, the audience as you are invited to play a game of chess with a stranger, producting the musical soundscape. It is a truly immersive event.

This work combines music and drama into one product where one cannot exist without the other. It explores, like many other composer including Johann Philipp Kirnberger in Der allezeit fertige Menuetten- und Polonaisencomponist (1757) the concept of Musikalisches Würfelspiel , gameplay within music. Chess specifically has been used as a basis for composition before in Zoltán Jeney’s End Game (1973) and C. Snow’s The Game of the Century (2014) and this composition brings a fresh thought process to the medium. The preparation of a Chess board is an idea used by Cage and Duchamp in Reunion (1968).

This is an M.A. Composition Performance by Dave Collins as he completes his Masters in Musical Composition at the University of Salford. Entry is free. For more information or to reserve a place, email d.h.collins@edu.salford.ac.uk.

Click here to book your free tickets for this event

Join the Facebook event now

BACK TO TOP
Go to home page
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Go to home page
Follow us

© 2023 International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Charity no. 1102623

International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Engine House Chorlton Mill 3 Cambridge Street M1 5BY
  • Site map
  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of use
  • Designed by Instruct
  • Built by OH Digital