Launch night // 28 June 2015Sunday 28 June 20:00 Cafe Oto, London Cikada perform works from the acclaimed composer Laurence Crane as a launch night for their new CD on the Lawo Classics label. “I use simple and basic musical objects; common chords and intervals, arpeggios, drones, cadences, fragments of scales and melodies. The materials may seem familiar – perhaps even rather ordinary – but my aim is to find a fresh beauty in these objects by placing them in new structural and formal contexts and by us
Only Connect - The Deep // 04 June 2015Thursday 4 June 20:00 Majorstua kirke, Oslo Only Connect is nyMusikk's festival of adventorous music. Cikada are performing as a piano trio on the opening concert. We will explore open strings and try to find out how Marcel Proust’s sketchbooks sound like in Majorstuen kirke June 4th. # Francesco Filidei: Corde Vuote (2010) # Gerard Pesson: Ne pas oublier coq rouge dans jour craquelé (moments Proust) (2010) Francesco Filidei’s piece has the descriptive title Corde Vuote that