[{"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "hyrwyddo a dathlu cerddoriaeth Cymru"}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "promoting and celebrating the music of Wales"}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Described by the Financial Times as \u201cone of the most exciting forces in contemporary music\u201d, Bastard Assignments have been at the forefront of the UK experimental scene for nearly a decade."}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "Wedi\u2019i ddisgrifio gan y Financial Times fel \u201cone of the most exciting forces in contemporary music\u201d, mae Bastard Assignments wedi bod ar frig y byd cerdd arbrofol y DU ers bron i ddegawd."}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "Bastard Assignments are Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley and Josh Spear, four composer-performers making experimental music. They work collaboratively and have developed a shared practice that encompasses concert music, movement work, online pieces, text, video, improvisation and performativity. They organise performances in London and show work across the UK and internationally."}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "Highlights of the last few years have included a collaboration with Ensemble Garage in Cologne which resulted in three new pieces, performances at Aldeburgh Festival, SPOR Festival in A\u030arhus, Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Music Current in Dublin and Sheffield Chamber Music Festival. Their response to the altered performance circumstances of the pandemic resulted in an exploratory body of online work, the Lockdown Jams. These were pieces made remotely over the internet both by the group and a wide range of practitioners commissioned with the support of Arts Council England's COVID Relief Fund."}]