Improvisation

Selectrospective

2024 UK Tour – Official Teaser

Film & performance by Hugo Max

Sound engineering by Maxim Lavrov

Facades of Manx hotels

Video, text and music by Hugo Max

Performance by Maryam Wocial (Soprano) and Hugo Max (Viola)

Photograph of blackout window carved with images of animals at Hutchinson Camp, Isle of Man [c.1940-1] created by Major H.O. Daniel – Tate Archive

'Heart murmur' ultrasound footage property of the artist

Filmed on the Isle of Man 7.4.22

Improvisation documented by the artist 6.2.23

Pan Memorial

Improvised performance on viola above Oxford’s Medieval Jewish cemetery, Magdalen College

Painting, improvisation & conception by Hugo Max

Cinematography by Bora Rex

1 min. excerpt from 10 min.

The Seven Stages of Night

Improvisations on solo viola, 21.11.20

Art of Noises VII: David Tudor's Rainforest

Improvised performance on violin with electronics at Modern Art Oxford in collaboration with Daniel Hulme, University of Oxford Faculty of Music. 22.4.22.

pc. Helen Messenger

Ashmolean After Hours: Avant Garde!

Improvised performance on viola in the musical instruments gallery of the Ashmolean Museum, drawing connections between this space and Francis Bacon’s Seated Figure painting from 1962 on display in the collection. 20.5.22.

pc. Ian Wallman

‘Movement’

Improvised performance on viola in green morph suit with sculptural installation, Worcester College, Oxford.

pc. Bora Rex

Composition

Selectrospective

Where Rain Settles (Lunar Odes, No. 3)

Lotte Betts-Dean, Mezzo-Soprano / Connie Pharoah, Viola / Noah Max, Text

Fables – violin duet

Lina Jukneviciute / Hugo Max, Violins

Juglet in the Shape of a Duck with Two Bodies

Daniel Swani, Soprano and Alto Recorders