Category: Performances
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Ingrid Laubrock – 17 November 2009
German born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is teaming up once again with acclaimed UK pianist Liam Noble and one of New York’s finest drummers, Tom Rainey for an exciting brand of new improvised music. Sleepthief play with a wide spectrum of sound, rhythm, space and colour whilst maintaining a strong feeling for form. Those of you…
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Gift of Life / Filario Farinoppo – 12 November 2009
“Gift of Life” is a freely improvising duo consisting of Timothy McCormack on flutes & bassoons and Ray Evanoff on amplified cymbal & objects. They began playing together shortly after meeting at the Uni. Huddersfield in the fall of 2008, where they both are pursuing PhDs in music composition under the direction of Aaron Cassidy.…
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Tullis Rennie / Laptop Workshop Performance – 8 October 2009
Tullis Rennie is an electronic musician currently based in Barcelona. He is one man with a laptop, some instruments, one very long pair of legs and some nice friends with beautiful vocal talents, all fueled with a tasty packet of biscuits. His music is a combination of haunting melodies, glimmering textures, bass swells, stuttering beats…
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Shiggajon – 30 September 2009
Shiggajon are performing with Dreamer’s Cloth, Mouths Of The Irrawaddy and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides. “Fiercely beautiful arcs of droning strings and flute swirl with the burning of a desert sun. This is rich and spicy music full of eastern tones and smoke-filled ragas. The fact this collective gather sandstorms from Denmark…
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Rodrigo Constanzo / PA Tremblay CD Release Party – 27 September 2009
It all started with a gig. Rodrigo Constanzo and PA Tremblay shared a stage in late 2008 and both enjoyed each others playing so much that a recording date was arrange for early 2009. This CD is that recording date. Not having ever played with each other, the two setup in a studio, with no…
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Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra – 10 September 2009
The Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra (L.B.O) is the efforts of Zeke Clough, David Birchall, and Huw Wahl. L.B.O seeks to use constructed instruments alongside the conventional, to provide reclaimed sounds that interact and delve into the feelings of the players, the space – and the audience. The group is therefore as much a cathartic tool as…
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The Navigators – 13 August 2009
For some years Charlie Collins and John Jasnoch had been exploring the possibilities of adding a third member to their long-standing duo. Within minutes of Beatrix becoming that third person it was obvious that the resulting trio was something quite special. Their sound is characterized by a unique combination of “world” instruments (ud, ukelele, mbira)…
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Circuit-Bending Workshop Performance – 9 July 2009
Circuit-bending is an electronic art which implements creative audio short-circuiting. This renegade path of electrons represents a catalytic force capable of exploding new experimental musical forms forward at a velocity previously unknown. Anyone at all can do it; no prior knowledge of electronics is needed. The technique is, without a doubt, the easiest electronic audio…
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Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – 11 June 2009
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay was born in 1975 in Montréal, Québec. He studied classical guitar and music theory from an early age, and as a teenager discovered bass guitar with Jean-Guy Larin, Sylvain Bolduc and Michel Donato. He also studied composition with Michel Tétrault, Marcelle Deschênes and Jonty Harrison. He earned his BA in music at…
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Pesticide Organica – 14 May 2009
Pesticide Organica is a self-supporting musical node. Producing music of the utmost contempt and repugnance, masked by a veneer of acceptable social norms. The ubiquitous force of Pesticide Organica permeates even the most one-dimensional of minds. http://www.myspace.com/pesticideorganica
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The Red Box – 9 April 2009
The Red Box – Radioactive Princess enters Stage Right through a whirlwind of pure noise offering up a saucer full of proto-jazz. Non-songs fed on the children of improv, anchored by a rhythmic intensity at their centre. Concentrated moments filtered through long lost vinyl, deflecting like electric snowflakes. http://www.myspace.com/ultratrash
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Diva Abrasiva – 12 March 2009
Lin Zhang(CN): Synths, Curving harmonic guitar, Machinedrum, Circuit bents, Trumpet + Obumpet, Power tools, Deconstruction material, Bamboo Sheng, Er Hu, Xun(vessel flute), Non-therapeutic singing bowl, Teeth and Tooth brash,… Matthew Salewski(US): Bass, Clarinet, Ned Kelly bucket, Washing machine back panel, Amp burning feedback, Concrete, Tree trunk, … Nick Styles(UK): Throwing guitar, Prepared Fishing Weight, File,…
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Panter/Andreae Duo – 12 February 2009
Sam Andreae and Finlay Panter melt our faces with some exciting drum/sax improvisation.
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Mick Beck – 11 December 2008
The Noise Upstairs hosts three of Shefield’s finest improvisers from the FREENOISE label. A trio of Mick Beck (incredible tenor sax)/ Stefano Giust (Italian version of Corsano on drums but better!) and Jonny Drury on electric guitar. Together it’s going to be a riotous affair, but also at times beautiful! Their names will be in…
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Fonik – 13 November 2008
Formed by ex – members of Psychiatric Challenge to carry on the performance and promotion of alternative, experimental forms of music and improvisation. They have releases on Electronic Musik, Casual Seizures, Earth Monkey, Classwar Karaoke & Knife in the Toaster. http://www.myspace.com/fonikfonik
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Rodrigo Constanzo – 9 October 2008
Rodrigo Constanzo is an experimental performer and composer living in Manchester, England. He is an avid improviser and performs regularly using home made electro-acoustic instruments. Rodrigo Constanzo was born in Madrid, Spain in 1976. He then spent the next three decades living in Miami, Florida, before moving to Manchester, England where he resides today. He…
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Noiseclub – 11 September 2008
Been playing noise in and around liverpool since 2003, always try to put on a full psychedelic show with mind blowing visuals. dont really want to rattle on and say blah blah blah…. but if you like experimental improvised music come see us. http://www.myspace.com/noiseclub1
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Beats & Pieces Big Band – 1 July 2008
*DEBUT LIVE SHOW* We are extremely proud to present the debut performance by this incredible all-original big band, blending electronics with tight big band playing and forward-thinking experimental grooves. Plus, before and after the live set will be an extra chance to join in an special edition Noise Upstairs jam. How could you stay at…
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They Destroyed His Image – 25 June 2008
A night of electronic music, free improve and new sounds. Sets from The Destroyed His Image, findlay_hunter_rennie, ifVersionLinger and Moon Grizzly. http://www.myspace.com/theydestroyedhisimage http://www.myspace.com/moongrizzly http://www.myspace.com/findlayhunterrennie
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Jon Thorne – 4 May 2008
An evening of uncomposed sounds.” – Jam session with featured artists. Jon Thorne (Lamb, Oedipus Complex) performing a rare solo bass and electronics set. Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra collaborating for the first time with midlands improv-quartet Black Carrot. They Destroyed His Image; laptop duo from the MANTIS collective. In amongst these sets the artists will all…