Ben & Alfie

On Tour With an Olympic Orchestra

2012-03-20T22:32:00.003Z

Alfie and I are currently on tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, visiting schools and helping out in workshops. Today is the 2nd day of our journey from Plymouth to York. On the way we will be performing with 5000 school children at 10 different venues and sleeping in very fancy hotels each night.


Ben & Alfie with James Toll and Steven Divine

Today we did our first foyer performance of our rather unorthodox version of music from Purcell's "Dioclesian". The original music is slow and beautiful and a true tribute to the fact that a well crafted canon is more than the sum of it's parts. We have of course increased the riffage content by 100% (a technical term describing the quantity of riff per given length of music) and invented some downright rude variations and deviations on this solemn masterpiece.

...But but what do you expect to happen if you combine two bad improvisational influences (namely Ben & Alfie) with an over energetic violinist and a Baroque harpsichordist with a jazz complex?!

Ben

Ben & Alfie - After the Noise

2012-01-18T17:02:00.000Z

Here it is finally!
please share it as much as you like and feel free to comment - we would love to here what you think!

Watch "Ben & Alfie - After the Noise" on youtube

After the Noise Video

2012-01-18T10:56:00.000Z

We just finished a new film of After the Noise!

It's taken a while - since last autumn we have been collecting bits of woods and leaves all kinds of bizarre shots, almost all of which we haven't used. This last weekend though, we finally got some sun and went up to the woods with the Violin and Bass and got some shots of ourselves playing in the beautiful winter afternoon light.
We also took my camera (lumix fz100) a tripod and quite allot of jumpers coats and gloves - though we never seemed to have enough!

Stay tuned for the video which should be uploaded in a few hours!

Ben & Alfie, No Measure Of Our Sanity

2012-01-03T20:26:00.000Z

Here's a video of us we just found on Youtube. Thanks to craykie for uploading this!
The song is called "No Measure Of Our Sanity"

Happy New Year!