Consort of One
Looping Through Time

Looping Through Time with Lizzie Gutteridge explores historically informed interpretations of pieces from historical manuscripts.
The music is given the lightest of modern make-overs with the aid of live looping equipment which records and plays back what happens on stage. Much of this material lends itself well to the layers and cycles that can be produced using the loop station, and most of the musical 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?"
I have set myself a few ground rules - no special effects, 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.
Although the music and instruments will be briefly introduced and explained between pieces, the emphasis is on the music's own ability to intrigue, enlighten and entertain. I hope that this show will introduce period music to new audiences as well as giving current fans a new way to experience something familiar.
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Lizzie Gutteridge took up playing shawm as a part of the historical re-enactment movement to re-form Waits bands throughout the country, then decided to pursue it further and make it her main occupation.
Since 2007 Lizzie has studied with some of the country’s leading Renaissance wind players at Cambridge and Dartington summer schools and at Guildhall.
She plays a wide range of other historical instruments, including bagpipes, recorders, curtals and fiddles. Lizzie now performs up and down the country, in and out of historical costume, as a member of Blondel and The York Waits. Freelance engagements have included the Globe's “Nell Gwynn”, both on tour and in the West End, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle” at the Wanamaker Theatre, “Hansel and Gretel" at the Globe, performances in Morocco and London with Passamezzo, and large scale events at Hampton Court and the Tower of London.
Since 2007 Lizzie has studied with some of the country’s leading Renaissance wind players at Cambridge and Dartington summer schools and at Guildhall.
She plays a wide range of other historical instruments, including bagpipes, recorders, curtals and fiddles. Lizzie now performs up and down the country, in and out of historical costume, as a member of Blondel and The York Waits. Freelance engagements have included the Globe's “Nell Gwynn”, both on tour and in the West End, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle” at the Wanamaker Theatre, “Hansel and Gretel" at the Globe, performances in Morocco and London with Passamezzo, and large scale events at Hampton Court and the Tower of London.