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This trio of Lauren Redhead (electronics, voice), Amy Jolly (cello) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin) will perform improvised interpretations and responses of experimental texts composed and read out by Lauren Redhead. These texts are composed from a wide variety of sources, including recipes, texts on digital aesthetics, instructions for action, etc, and will be the first time they perform together in public.
Lauren Redhead
Lauren Redhead is a composer and organist who works with experimental, graphic and text forms of notation. She also makes work collaborating with improvisers around experimental texts composed using musical principles, oulipo techniques, and indeterminacy.
www.laurenredhead.eu
Amy Jolly
Amy is a cellist, improviser, collaborator and researcher living in Manchester, UK. Her ongoing collaborative research project, ‘The Intervening Cellist’, involves performing and developing pieces composed especially for her.
Here in Manchester she runs improvisatory group Playdates with violinist Gemma Bass and mixed-media duo Bonjour Claude with composer Ellen Sargen. Bonjour Claude run triannual scratch nights for northern-based cross-genre artists at Levenshulme Old Library.
Amy has performed with Psappha, Riot Ensemble and UPROAR and has been involved with CoMA Manchester since its revival in 2020. She has played in the band for Hamilton and was in the original band for Mrs Doubtfire.
Amy has performed as a principal player with BBC Philharmonic, Opera North and Birmingham Royal Ballet. In constant demand in a wide variety of settings, 2024 brings fully improvised performances at Stoller Hall, big band performances at northern jazz festivals, several BBC Proms dates and a repeat tour with accordionist Miloš Milivojević playing at venues such as Stoller Hall, The Lowry and Howard Assembly Room.
www.amyjolly.co.uk
Alistair Zaldua
Alistair Zaldua its a composer, conductor, improviser researcher and sound artist, as an improviser he performs the e-violin and live electronics. While Canterbury he set up the Free Range Orchestra (closely affiliated to the Free Range Concert Series) and, since moving to Manchester, he helps organise the Noise Upstairs concert series. Ongoing and recent duet and ensemble improvisation projects have been with: Adam Woolf, John Jasnoch, David Birchall, James Coote and Alwynne Pritchard.
For the past 12 years Alistair has worked in an organ and live electronics duet with Lauren Redhead; they have performed in festivals and broadcasts in the UK and Europe and have worked closely with: Huw Morgan, Ailís Ní Ríain, Jesse Ronneau, Annette Schmucki, Sophie Stone, and Nina Whiteman, amongst others.
www.alistair-zaldua.de
| Who | Redhead/Jolly/Zaldua – 10 October 2024 |
| When |
Thursday, October 10, 2024
8:00pm
–
All Ages
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| Where |
448 Wilmslow Road
Manchester, England M20 3BW |
| Other Info | words and music This trio of Lauren Redhead (electronics, voice), Amy Jolly (cello) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin) will perform improvised interpretations and responses of experimental texts composed and read out by Lauren Redhead. These texts are composed from a wide variety of sources, including recipes, texts on digital aesthetics, instructions for action, etc, and will be the first time they perform together in public. Lauren Redhead Lauren Redhead is a composer and organist who works with experimental, graphic and text forms of notation. She also makes work collaborating with improvisers around experimental texts composed using musical principles, oulipo techniques, and indeterminacy. www.laurenredhead.eu Amy Jolly Amy is a cellist, improviser, collaborator and researcher living in Manchester, UK. Her ongoing collaborative research project, ‘The Intervening Cellist’, involves performing and developing pieces composed especially for her. Here in Manchester she runs improvisatory group Playdates with violinist Gemma Bass and mixed-media duo Bonjour Claude with composer Ellen Sargen. Bonjour Claude run triannual scratch nights for northern-based cross-genre artists at Levenshulme Old Library. Amy has performed with Psappha, Riot Ensemble and UPROAR and has been involved with CoMA Manchester since its revival in 2020. She has played in the band for Hamilton and was in the original band for Mrs Doubtfire. Amy has performed as a principal player with BBC Philharmonic, Opera North and Birmingham Royal Ballet. In constant demand in a wide variety of settings, 2024 brings fully improvised performances at Stoller Hall, big band performances at northern jazz festivals, several BBC Proms dates and a repeat tour with accordionist Miloš Milivojević playing at venues such as Stoller Hall, The Lowry and Howard Assembly Room. www.amyjolly.co.uk Alistair Zaldua Alistair Zaldua its a composer, conductor, improviser researcher and sound artist, as an improviser he performs the e-violin and live electronics. While Canterbury he set up the Free Range Orchestra (closely affiliated to the Free Range Concert Series) and, since moving to Manchester, he helps organise the Noise Upstairs concert series. Ongoing and recent duet and ensemble improvisation projects have been with: Adam Woolf, John Jasnoch, David Birchall, James Coote and Alwynne Pritchard. For the past 12 years Alistair has worked in an organ and live electronics duet with Lauren Redhead; they have performed in festivals and broadcasts in the UK and Europe and have worked closely with: Huw Morgan, Ailís Ní Ríain, Jesse Ronneau, Annette Schmucki, Sophie Stone, and Nina Whiteman, amongst others. www.alistair-zaldua.de |
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