Kronos Quartet review – sonic Slinkys and exploding bombs

Barbican, LondonThe virtuoso ensemble performed no less than six UK premieres, with Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Bombs of Beirut providing an explosive finaleEntirely new in Kronos’s Barbican programme was Seiche by Martin Green (of folk group Lau), whose title refers to a form of wave and which made memorable use of two of Green’s newly invented Kronoscillators – stretched out and amplified Slinkys whose sonic impact proved every bit as extraordinary as the sight of them bein...

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