Category: Performances

  • Jason Kahn – 8 February 2012

    Jason Kahn – 8 February 2012

    Jason Kahn (electronics) Jason Kahn was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in Los Angeles. He moved to Europe in 1990, first living in Berlin until 1999 then moving to Switzerland. He is currently based in Zürich. Kahn came of musical age in the late 1970’s, playing drums in punk bands and later…

  • Jason Kahn – 9 February 2012

    Jason Kahn – 9 February 2012

    Jason Kahn (electronics) Jason Kahn was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in Los Angeles. He moved to Europe in 1990, first living in Berlin until 1999 then moving to Switzerland. He is currently based in Zürich. Kahn came of musical age in the late 1970’s, playing drums in punk bands and later…

  • Helmut Lemke – 12 January 2012

    Helmut Lemke – 12 January 2012

    http://www.sound-art.de Imagine you have a plastic bottle…. You fill it with water and you hang it upside down…. You make a little hole in the cap…. and then you sit back, you wait and you listen – drips appear – they fall – they hit sounds … inaudible when the water squeezes through the little…

  • Helmut Lemke – 11 January 2012

    Helmut Lemke – 11 January 2012

    http://www.sound-art.de Imagine you have a plastic bottle…. You fill it with water and you hang it upside down…. You make a little hole in the cap…. and then you sit back, you wait and you listen – drips appear – they fall – they hit sounds … inaudible when the water squeezes through the little…

  • Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011

    Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011

    All the way from Rome, Italy! Click here to download the performances Who Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011 When Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW Other InfoMemoria Zero, all the way from Rome, Italy.

  • Diatribes – 3 November 2011

    Diatribes – 3 November 2011

    Following their amazing gig last year, D’incise and Cyril return with an expanded line-up featuring some of the UK’s best improvisers… Cyril Bondi – drums/percussion D’incise – objects/laptop Dominic Lash – double bass Phil Durrant – laptop/sound manipulation Hannah Marshall – cello Patrick Farmer – objects/percussion Also playing will be the Manchester super-group that is…

  • L’Ocelle Mare – 23 October 2011

    L’Ocelle Mare – 23 October 2011

    Thomas Bonvalet, (born October, 1977) lives between the forest of « la Double », in the south-west of France and Alpedrete, Spain. Guitar player of the band Cheval de frise between 1998 and 2004, he made is first solo show under the name of l’ocelle mare in September 2005. He toured Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, USA…

  • Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 9th November 2011

    Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 9th November 2011

      Sam Andreae and Anton Hunter first met playing in Ben Cottrell’s Beats & Pieces Big Band, and quickly went on to form their quartet Haq to explore the boundaries between composed and improvised music.  This latest tour (with release to follow) is a complete embrace of the freely improvised, still working together though performing…

  • Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 10 November 2011

    Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 10 November 2011

    Sam Andreae and Anton Hunter first met playing in Ben Cottrell’s Beats & Pieces Big Band, and quickly went on to form their quartet Haq to explore the boundaries between composed and improvised music.  This latest tour (with release to follow) is a complete embrace of the freely improvised, still working together though performing alone.…

  • Martin Archer & Steve Chase – 14 September 2011

    Martin Archer & Steve Chase – 14 September 2011

    Martin Archer – iPad, woodwind Steve Chase – guitar, miscellaneous instruments Martin and Steve have played together regularly over the last few years in the context of larger groups (Coastguard All Stars, Gated Community, Juxtavoices, Showroom Ensemble), but this will be their first concert as a duo.  To mark the occasion they have chosen to…

  • Stuckometer / Abscond – 8 September 2011

    Stuckometer / Abscond – 8 September 2011

    “Stuckometer is a free improvised no wave noise rock from the NorthWest of England originally formed in 2005. The third wave of the band consists of David Birchall (guitar) Karl Sveinsonn (guitar) JOINCEY (bass) Pascal Nichols (percussion). Recent CDR out on Total Vermin and forthcoming on Kovorax Sound.” www.myspace.com/stckmtr Also joining them this evening is…

  • Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 13 October 2011

    Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 13 October 2011

    Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – The  Bhs 3 are a  recently formed Trio exploring  the Sax/Double Bass/Drums improvised  format.The Trio are currently recording a CD  for release later in the year. Melodic, Rhythmic and Textural explorations. Individually they have worked with musicians such as Stuart McCallum, John Stevens,Phil Wachsmann and Dudu Pukwana. Paul Baylis Alto Sax Jon…

  • Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 12 October 2011

    Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 12 October 2011

    Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – The  Bhs 3 are a  recently formed Trio exploring  the Sax/Double Bass/Drums improvised  format.The Trio are currently recording a CD  for release later in the year. Melodic, Rhythmic and Textural explorations. Individually they have worked with musicians such as Stuart McCallum, John Stevens,Phil Wachsmann and Dudu Pukwana. Paul Baylis Alto Sax Jon Howard Drums Max…

  • Beck, Hunter, & Perez Trio – 10 August 2011

    Beck, Hunter, & Perez Trio – 10 August 2011

    Hervé Perez (electonics, sax), who uses many methods to forge vibrations and sculpt the harmonies that will rattle the nerves of academia, will be joining forces with UK Free Improvisation stalwart, Mick Beck (reeds & whistles), the critically acclaimed free jazz sax and bassoon player.  Providing some much needed percussion will be The Noise Upstairs’…

  • Acrid Lactations – 11 August 2011

    Acrid Lactations – 11 August 2011

    Acrid Lactations is the duo of primitivist improvisers Susan Fitzpatrick and Stuart Arnot.  With no fixed instrumentation or approach, they use musical/non-musical, acoustic/electronic, live/pre-recorded sounds in a psychedelic stramash of noise, free-jazz, concrète, sound poetry and confusion, hanging onto the wet end of the Group Ongaku/Nihilist Spasm Band/LAFMS/A Band/Prick Decay continuum. http://totalvermin.blogspot.com/ Click here to…

  • Michel Doneda & Jonas Kocher + Wolf Scarers – 26 September 2011

    Michel Doneda & Jonas Kocher + Wolf Scarers – 26 September 2011

    Michel Doneda soprano saxophone Jonas Kocher accordion, objects Accordion and saxophone, an association of more conventional after all, but beware! the sign is never the road! Kocher and Doneda have their own way, reinvesting their respective instruments by focusing on the infinitely small, in the heart of the matter, the elusive textures, projects in the real space…

  • The Riverside – Tramlines vs NUS – 24 July 2011

    The Riverside – Tramlines vs NUS – 24 July 2011

    Come take part in a night of far left music and improvisation hosted by Tramlines. Event will take place at our regular Sheffield venue, The Riverside on Mowbray St. S3 8EN. Click here to download the performances Who Tramlines vs NUS – 24 July 2011 When Sunday, July 24, 2011 6:00pm – All Ages Where The Riverside (map)…

  • NUS vs Blank Media – 17 July 2011

    NUS vs Blank Media – 17 July 2011

    A special event to celebrate the final day of cara b = side b as a collaboration between Noise Upstairs and Blank Media Collective. The Noise Upstairs is an improv collective running free-improv jam nights in Manchester and Sheffield. The basic premise is that anyone can turn up and join in by putting their name…

  • Wolf Scarers – 14 July 2011

    Wolf Scarers – 14 July 2011

    Wolf Scarers are Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, both playing tenor saxophones. They’ve known each other for years but have never played together until, after appearing on the same bill at Huddersfield’s Inclusive Improv last year, it occurred to Simon to suggest some duets. So they got together at Oldham Music Centre and scared the…

  • Wolf Scarers – 13 July 2011

    Wolf Scarers – 13 July 2011

    Wolf Scarers are Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, both playing tenor saxophones. They’ve known each other for years but have never played together until, after appearing on the same bill at Huddersfield’s Inclusive Improv last year, it occurred to Simon to suggest some duets. So they got together at Oldham Music Centre and scared the…