Camac Harps have made a revolutionary MIDI concert harp:
every pluck can trigger any sound. But MIDI technology is nothing new. The fate
of the MIDI harp depends on what is done with it. Will it reach its potential,
or end up a gimmick?
“I want the music to hover between abstraction and narrative,
to use voices we may recognize, and to focus on the rhetorical posturing
machismo of modern political life, in contrast to that dreamy harp we’re
accustomed to.” Graham Fitkin
On 26th January, at Maida Vale Studios, Sioned Williams gives
the World Premiere of Graham Fitkin’s new MIDI Harp Concerto No Doubt,
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton. Electric harp sounds mix
with MIDI effects, patches and vocal samples taken from political speeches.
This seminar will be of great interest to Composers, Technicians and Harpists
Helen Leitner, from Camac Harps, will kindly be on hand to answer questions
