The premiere of Wicomb’s electroacoustic piece ‘An Aesthetics of Rat bites‘ will take place the 19th of June at the Bowed Electrons festival, University of Cape Town.
Composition and Politics…
A world premiere of Wicomb’s piano piece Quaver Left by Michael Blake as part of his lecture-recitals at the Woordfees.
Purpur Festival
The 4th Purpur Festival included the premieres of Wicomb’s Now for Triads for absent robot toy piano and the piece Sue-Uhm Kwee performed by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet.
USA premiere of Me [an]D
Premiere of Loop
Performance of Wicomb’s soundtrack Cue Music in collaboration with dance company Prematuur’s Loop at the Baxter Dance Festival.
InterZones CD available
The new CD of the Swiss improvising duo InterZones is available now including a piece of Wicomb. Piece Three is the result of an ongoing collaboration towards the staging of an opera with the musicians Franziska Baumann and Christoph Baumann.
South African Music Cd
The launch of Weerspieelings, a CD of South African composers in Birmingham, featuring Wicomb’s solo violin work Spelling and Sounds, performed by Lieva Starker.
SA Premiere of ‘Three Milieus’
Purpur Festival nr. 3
Premiere of the piece Self-Portrait – listen to a recording here
Residency, Africa Open and NIROX
Sterkfontein Composers’ Meeting facilitates the ongoing collaboration/residency with the Swedish duo Axelsson Nilsson, which will be taking place at the the NIROX sculpture park. Wicomb composed the piece Automation for the duo.
