Images:
Claire Shovelton, Ksenia Burnasheva, Will Edgecombe & The Other Richard

STAR
QUALITY
Speculations
for Guitar and Voice
(2024)

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Three performers, trapped in the far future of 2028, try to do what they can in a world where art has become automated. How can they survive in these accelerating times? In this
'impossible opera’ for projection screen and a trio of live actors, the literature of Anna and Fyodor Dostoyevsky might provide the clue.

Based on new music for modified guitar and soprano voice STAR QUALITY revisits the 400-year battle between music and words. Bringing influences from live art, rock and jazz, this is an exciting hybrid work combining innovation with mischief.

Libretto written by
Rose Biggin & Keir Cooper
with music by
Keir Cooper (from improvisations by)
Ellie Westbrook

Performed by the company

Developed & Supported by
Arts Council England
Help Musicians
Shoreditch Town Hall
Chisenhale Dance Space
Ugly Duck
Shoreditch Electric
Tête-à-Tête


Press

“it locates a peculiar expressive niche with no other occupants I know of”
THE QUIETUS: Best of New Weird Britain


Performances

Sep 19th 2024
Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival
Cockpit Theatre, London


Previous Iterations

Sep 26th 2024
Motion in Frame with
Petra Haller, Chisenhale Dance Space
(excerpt)

July 23rd 2024
Castle Cinema, Hackney, London

Sep 27th 2024
Album released on Discus Music

Radio Play includes Tom Ravenscroft: BBC 6 New Music Fix, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone: BBC 6, Max Reinhardt’s Late Lunch Show and Resonance FM