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Richard Scott & Phil Marks – 13 May 2010
Phillip Marks has been performing and promoting improvised music in Manchester, the UK, and Europe since the mid-80s. He is a founder member of Bark! and has been playing with pianist Stephen Grew and saxophonist Mick Beck for the best part of twenty years. Recent collaborations have included a trio tour with trombonist Alan Tomlinson…
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Instrument Building Workshop – 13 May 2010
Instrument design is many things to many people. It brought us the modern orchestra, the engineering feat that is the grand piano, the digital sampler, and a near endless world of things in between. There are several classes of instruments (as can be seen on page 3) and we will explore nearly all of them…
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Mick Beck & Yvonna Magda – 12 May 2010
Mick Beck has been working since 1980 in jazz, free music and as a composer and club/ festival organiser. As a composer he looks for structures that can diversify and strengthen the impact of improvisation; as an improvisor his aim is to mix compelling rhythms, zaney melodies, changes of mood and flexibility in playing techniques…
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Darnall Sinfonia – 14 April 2010
Tom Owen, Steven Jouanny and Johnny Hunter are current and former Sheffield University Students who pop up here and there on the Sheffield and Derbyshire amateur circuits. Our genuine musical concerns include The European and American Avant Garde, Krautrock, Be-bop, Post-bop, Fusion, Industrial, Ska, During Rock, Phonetic Mash-up, Basementcore, Proto-skiffle, Alsace Sham-revival Drones, Rural Doom…
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Darnall Sinfonia – 8 April 2010
Tom Owen, Steven Jouanny and Johnny Hunter are current and former Sheffield University Students who pop up here and there on the Sheffield and Derbyshire amateur circuits. Our genuine musical concerns include The European and American Avant Garde, Krautrock, Be-bop, Post-bop, Fusion, Industrial, Ska, During Rock, Phonetic Mash-up, Basementcore, Proto-skiffle, Alsace Sham-revival Drones, Rural Doom…
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NUS Label Launch Party – 28 March 2010
Exciting performances by NUS Artists Gift of Life and Rodrigo Constanzo. Also the performance of Cobra by workshop participants. ……………………………………. John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrage of noise, a social experiment, or every piece of music you’ve (n)ever played or heard. I…
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Orfeo 5 – 12 March 2010
Orfeo 5 are Shaun Blezard (electronics) and Keith Jafrate (saxophones). they use improvisation to find structure and vice versa, in music that is romantic and narrative and mysterious all at once, playing long pieces which evolve over time to create a sense of place and landscape, but which also incorporate strongly rhythmic passages. their style takes in influences from…
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Orfeo 5 Podcast – 11 March 2010
I’ve tried to give a very broad overview of shared loves and influences of orfeo 5 without leaning too far in any one direction. They are all there in our sound some obvious some not so obvious. Hope you like it Shaun (orfeo 5) Tracklisting: 1. Nine Barrow Down – Field Recording by Keith Jafrate…
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Takahashi’s shellfish concern – 11 March 2010
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela Guyton and Rodrigo Constanzo create a new event that requires the audience to consider this merger of music and art as a single expression. The concept for Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern took shape in…
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Apropos – 11 February 2010
Apropos are Iain Harrison (saxophones) and Scott Mc Laughlin (computer), playing music that lives somewhere between the composed/notated and the freely improvised. Scott Mc Laughlin is a composer (studies with PA Tremblay, Bryn Harrison, Christopher Fox and James Saunders) whose work focuses on the ambiguity of minimal surfaces involving inharmonic and repetitive materials. Iain Harrison…
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John Zorn’s COBRA Workshop – 11 February 2010
John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrageof noise, a social experiment, or every piece of music you’ve (n)ever played or heard. I can’t be certain as to which it is or isn’t but I do know that it involves a group of performers, a…
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Apropos Podcast – 11 February 2010
Since most of the music that really influences me (all pop music influences me) is by nature long and slow, I decided to skip all that and just go for an eclectic mix of songs I love. No thought was put into this (because then it would have been as long as I am old),…
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Trio Forge / Sehnaoui / Toulemonde – 14 January 2010
Born in 1978 and living in France, Christine is from lebanese origins. It is with the discovering of improvised music in 1997 that Christine Sehnaoui decided to start her own autodidact study of sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. She creates a personal language on how to make electronic music on an acoustic instrument. Far…
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Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern – 10 December 2009
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela Guyton and Rodrigo Constanzo create a new event that requires the audience to consider this merger of music and art as a single expression. The concept for Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern took shape in…
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Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern Podcast – 10 December 2009
Gosh dern it, I love all these songs. They are the soundtrack to my 20s, and are not just the songs I’ve been listening to lately. The only exception may or may not be Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush, as I’ve just recently discovered it and I can’t really predict its staying power…
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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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Gift of Life Podcast – 9 November 2009
For my podcast, I tried to represent the diversity of musics to which I am most drawn, as well as include several recordings which I consider to be “must-hears”. The selected pieces generally break down into one of three genres: contemporary composition, free improvisation, or intelligent dance music (“IDM”), with a track by Medeski, Martin…
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Laptop Workshop – 8 October 2009
Laptops make great musical instruments there’s so much you can do with them. Effects, live coding, processing, sampling just some of the fun you can have with a laptop. Laptops are increasingly ubiquitous while the capabilities and instrumental performance opportunities are ever increasing. We are offing a free laptop noise making workshop as part of the October Noise Upstairs.…
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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…
