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FX Rentals Official Sponsor of PRS New Music Award
FX Rentals provided the PA system for an important new fixture in the arts calendar - the New Music Award, presented by the PRS Foundation for New Music, held in July before an invited audience at London's Living Room, which boasts panoramic views across the city from the top floor of City Hall.
FX, one of the major sponsors of the event alongside the PRS (Performing Right Society), provided four Mackie SRM 450 self powered speakers with two HZ PB400 sub bass units, Pioneer CDJ1000 mk2 CD turntables and a Pioneer DJM600 DJ mixer, mics and a video distribution box for the eveningıs speeches, music and visuals.
"The PRS Foundation has worked with FX Rentals on several occasions, and their ongoing support is hugely significant," says PRS Foundation manager David Francis. "They are extremely helpful in working with us to ensure that our events run smoothly and successfully, and their technical knowledge and experience is second to none. At events such as the New Music Award, it is vital that we get everything right, and it's great knowing that we have FX there to make sure this happens. We look forward to working with FX Rentals in the future."
Already a major supporter of contemporary British music, the PRS Foundation for New Music is providing £50,000 for the creation of an original piece of new British music - the most financially significant award for music in the UK. PRS Foundation Trustee and Chief Executive of the Roundhouse, Marcus Davey, and broadcaster Verity Sharp awarded the inaugural cash prize to musician and Pogues founder member Jem Finer to realise his Score for A Hole In The Ground. Finer has until September 2006 to create his award-winning work and present it to the public.
Finer plans to use a deep shaft in the countryside as the venue for his performance, using the sounds of water dripping through the earth amplified through a 20ft brass horn. Drips of water will strike bowls positioned at different heights throughout the shaft, and their timbres will change as they fill, while tunings pivoted about their centre of gravity will allow the tones to be modulated as they sway, and water drips into the bowls beneath. Using simple acoustic tubes, the sound will be pushed through a brass horn, rising 20 feet above ground level.
"I felt Jem's piece would be the most successful in introducing new music to an audience that otherwise might never experience it," says Aniruddha Das from Asian Dub Foundation, who was one of the judges. "Score for A Hole In The Ground is both epic and fun." Das was joined on the panel of judges by percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Jerry Springer The Opera librettist and comedian Stewart Lee, broadcaster Verity Sharp and Oscar winning film composer Anne Dudley.
Finer was chosen from a shortlist of three proposals selected from over 200 entries. His winning entry was up against Terry Mann’s ‘The Bells of Paradise’, a recording of bells from every British cathedral as the basis for a large-scale surround-sound installation, and Craig Vear’s ‘Singing Ringing Buoy’, using cutting-edge technology to harness the sounds of an off-shore buoy fed through custom-made software to form an electro-acoustic composition.
26th July 2005
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