BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.13.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Consort of 1: The Medieval Imaginarium X-WR-CALDESC:Welcome to Otley\, West Yorkshire X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:20251026T010000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:20251026T010000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Consort of 1: The Medieval Imaginarium DESCRIPTION:Music Doors: 3:30 pm Show Starts: 4:00 pm\n\n Advance Pri ce: £16  Concessions : £11\n\n\n\n\nPaintings from the Middle Ages a re often used to back up research into historical performance practice\, and yet they also show a world far beyond the reality of Medieval life: weird creatures\, animals playing instruments\, historical events from centuries before the lifetime of the artist\, and combinations of instru ments that defy the theoretical musical teachings of the day. \n\nLizzi e Gutteridge uses her live-looping\, combined with a wide range of histo rical instruments including aulos\, bagpipes\, recorders\, fiddles and p ercussion\, to explore the imaginary world conjured up by these images a nd sources. \n\nSome examples: \n\n-The compositions of Mesomedes\, co mposer to the Roman Emperor Hadrian\, only survive because they\, along with the theoretical treatise on ancient Greek musical notation\, were c opied over and over handed down through the centuries by scribes and mon ks. The oldest surviving copies we now have are from the 13th century. S o did Medieval monks ever sing or play these tunes which were already 10 00 years old? \n\n-In the German town of Ausburg\, in the first few dec ades of the 16th century\, a fascinating tradition took place. Each year the town’s dignitaries would dress up in historical costumes\, repres enting their forbears from the 1200s through to their own time. They per formed processions and dances\, and even commissioned paintings of the o ccasion where the people are labeled by name along with the dates they r epresent. In one of these paintings\, from 1522\, we can see the Stadtpj eiferen (the town band\, or Waits\, as they were known in England)\, wit h their alta capella instruments\, who are joined by a lutenist\, a bagp iper and a drummer. What did they play? Was it the latest hoftanzen or d id they try something much older? \n\n-When Barnaba de Modena painted t he coronation of the Virgin Mary in 1374\, he showed her surrounded by a host of musical angels with trumpets\, fiddle\, lute\, organ\, shawm\, bagpipe and aulos. What might that band have sounded like\, in the artis t’s head? What tune was he humming to himself as he plied his paint br ushes? \n\n  \n\nConsort of 1 is Lizzie Gutteridge’s live-looping Early Music project where she performs music from the 2nd-17th centuries on historical instruments including fiddles\, bagpipes\, shawms\, percu ssion\, recorders\, aulos\, pipe &\; tabor\, &\; vocals. By combin ing sounds of the past with some 21st century technology new light is th rown onto ancient music\, peeling back\, then building up the layers of anything from Medieval dances to lyrical chansons. Historical melodies a re given the lightest of modern make-overs with the aid of live looping equipment. Much of this material lends itself well to the layers and cyc les that can be produced using the loop station\, and most of these new arrangements are based on the premise of “what might a person from the period when this tune was written have done with this technology\, had they had the chance?” \n\nThere are a few ground rules – no electro nically altered sound\, nothing louder than the natural acoustic sounds produced by the historical instruments and every note of every show will be played live on the day – nothing pre-recorded. The music and inst ruments will be briefly introduced and explained between pieces\, but th e emphasis will be on the music’s own ability to intrigue\, enlighten and entertain. When a 5 part chanson from the late 15th century is put t ogether one part at a time\, it can allow the modern audience a chance t o notice elements of the interplay between parts which might otherwise p ass them by\, as each layer changes the perspective on both rhythm and h armony. A 2 part Ductia from the 13thC can be gradually layered up in 4 or more parts – throwing light on the relationships between different sections of the music by playing them against each other.    \n\nLiz zie Gutteridge took up playing shawm as a part of the historical re-ena ctment movement to re-form Waits bands\, then decided to pursue it furth er and make it her main occupation. She plays a wide range of historical instruments\, including bagpipes\, recorders\, curtals\, fiddles and au los. \n\nAs well as being a regular member of Blondel\, The York Waits and the New Cambridge Waits\, Lizzie’s engagements have included the G lobe’s “Nell Gwynn”\, both on tour and in the West End\, “The Kn ight of the Burning Pestle” at the Wanamaker Theatre\, performances in Morocco and London with Passamezzo\, large scale events at Hampton Cour t and the Tower of London as well as TV appearances on “Thronecast – Gameshow of Thrones” and “A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley ” and live &\; recorded performances on bagpipe of Gregory Rose’s “Dance Macabre”. She recently performed a specially composed work f or ‘cello and aulos in the National Gallery as part of their “Utterl y in the picture” series. Lizzie’s solo project “Consort of 1” c ombines early music on historical instruments with the use of live loopi ng equipment which allows layering of parts to show Medieval and Renaiss ance melodies from a new perspective. She also runs the Colchester Waits \; a community shawm band welcoming people of all ages\, abilities and m usical backgrounds\, and makes reeds for shawms\, curtals\, crumhorns an d sordunes. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.visitotley.co.uk/events/consort-of-1-the-medie val-imaginarium/ UID:urn:uuid:f5e8fd75-3502-41d8-b319-88fff4b0e199 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260929T073327Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260125T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260125T180000 LOCATION:Courthouse St END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR