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Some Some Unicorn – 12 November 2015
Some Some Unicorn Some Some Unicorn is an experiment in communal music making led by Shaun Blezard. Working on the border of composition and improvisation the collective draws together artists from the fields of improv, electronics, jazz, poetry and popular music. After a well received album, Some Some Unicorn and The Golden Periphery, it is…
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Wire Assembly – 8 October 2015
The guitar trio Wire Assembly have been resurrected/disinterred after 20 years of hibernation. John Jasnoch and Neil Carver have coerced Ian Simpson into being the Third Man. Covering an enormous range of sound from a blue tit pecking at an aluminium milk bottle top (there were milk bottles when we last played) to apocalyptic calamity…
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THF Drenching – 10 September 2015
THF Drenching is a dictaphone-player, vocalist and composer of musique concrète from Levenshulme, Manchester. However hedged around with anal, urethral and genital impulses, all his music is essentially oral in character, obsessive and devouring, and all of it aspires to the condition of jazz in the sense of determinate physical decision-making. http://www.councilofdrent.com/ https://thfdrenching.bandcamp.com/ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/THF_Drenching/ http://plushwattle.tumblr.com/…
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Otto Will – 13 August – 2015
Otto is a double bassist and composer living in Manchester. He is interested in improvisation and uncovering moments and areas which might otherwise go unnoticed. Otto plays in many different ensembles and groups, and has played over Europe and the US. His solo record ‘Got Gills’ is due for release in July on the Slip…
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Jafrate/Hunter/Constanzo – 9 July 2015
Saxophonist Keith Jafrate, a veteran of European and North American tours, has led various bands since the late eighties, and played with a host of splendid improvisers, including Paul Hession & Martin Archer. He’s also a poet. “alternates between atonality and lyricism with sublime ease.” Ian Holloway Wonderful Wooden Reasons Anton Hunter is a composer…
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Paul Stapleton – 11 June 2015
I’m an improviser, sound artist, inventor and writer originally from Southern California, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I design and perform with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics, found objects and electric guitars in locations ranging from experimental music clubs in Berlin to remote beaches on Vancouver Island. Since 2007,…
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Sound Quartet – 14 May 2015
SQ (Sound Quartet) explores music inaccessible to contemplative composition. Devoting many hours to develop skills which circumvent learning and amplify responses to the moment. Each piece is a sortie into uncertainty along paths never followed before, with assiduous unpremeditation and susceptibility of mind and body as our guides. States far from equilibrium can branch on barely perceptible quantum…
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David Birchall/Odie Ji Ghast/THF Drenching – 12 March 2015
David Birchall/Odie Ji Ghast/THF Drenching Three of Manchester’s finest. Anti-guitar, anguished screams and punctured dictaphones wishing they were Jazz. For this performance ONE night only the trio features pataphysical broadcast content from Odie Ji Ghast accompanied by Drenching Birchall. Debut album “YEA YOU SORRY NOW due out very soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAucfRXa2w Who David Birchall/Odie Ji Ghast/THF…
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Inclusion Principle / Joseph Kudirka – 9 April 2015
Martin Archer – electronic keyboards, laptop, saxophones, clarinets, recorders Hervé Perez – laptop, saxophones Peter Fairclough – drums and percussion IP was formed in 2006, released it’s first eponymous CD that year, and follows up with a second release ‘The Leaf Factory Fallback’ in March 2010. subsequent releases include documents of performances: Inclusion Principle –…
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Beck Hunters – 12 February 2015
Mick Beck (reeds and whistles) Anton Hunter (guitar, fx) Johnny Hunter (drums) Stopping off in Manchester on their UK tour to promote the debut album, The Hunt Is On (Discus 2014). – http://discus-music.co.uk/dis46cd.htm “Agressive when it needs to be, but comfortable winding down into unhurried, meandering humour, it sounds like a miniature Art Ensemble at play.”…
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Yeah Yeah Industrial – 8 January 2015
Ian Simpson & Shaun Blezard are Yeah Yeah Industrial. A kosmiche duo from the Northern Wastelands who have been working together and around each other for over 10 years. They have now become YYI, ambient improv/free prog soundscape improvisers. Noise Upstairs regulars will know them as members of Kipple, Wire Assembly and Orfeo 5. http://yeahyeahindustrial.co.uk/ Who…
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bird rat centipede 11 December 2014
bird rat centipede is a collection of performer/composers who share a view for honest and democratic music making bird rat centipede is: Sam Andreae Rodrigo Constanzo Angela Guyton Linda Jankowska Braxton Sherouse http://www.birdratcentipede.com Who bird rat centipede 11 December 2014 When Thursday, December 11, 2014 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow…
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dfscore – 18 September 2014
We’re really excited to invite you to the first public performance using Rodrigo Constanzo’s new networked improvisation system, dfscore. The dfscore system is a dynamic score display system built to function over a local network to display a variety of musical material. The primary motivations for building the system were to allow for a middle…
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errk! – 10 July 2014
errk! are Richard Knight on mixer and samples, Rob McWhirter on guitar and Keith Jafrate on saxophone. They wander into and mostly away from structures to make dramatic abstractions that sometimes achieve significant velocities, sometimes wide open spaces. Preceding and following their set will be the usual name-in-the-hat frolics you know and love. Who errk!…
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KUBOV – 14 August 2014
KnowUsByOurVelocity (KUBOV) is a duo of violin and electronics. Incorporating minimalist textures and lush sustains as well as harrowing dissonance and distortion, their music ranges from the esoterically tingly to downright disturbing. Their eclectic sonorities are a result of the hybridisation of electronics and acoustic instrument, with which they explore and combine spaces and places, warping perspective and effecting…
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exFlibbeth – 12 June 2014
exFlibbeth exFlibbeth is a free improvisation quartet, the two halves of which combine the influences of the London free improv scene (Benedict Taylor and Tom Jackson), and the scene in Berlin (Manuel Miethe and Abigail Sanders). To divide them another way, Abigail and Benedict both learnt their crafts in Manchester, and will return to perform…
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David Birchall/Rogier Smal Duo – 8 May 2014
David Birchall/Rogier Smal Duo Manchester/Amsterdam free guitar/drums duo. Tape out to coincide with first UK tour. David Birchall is a guitar player living in Manchester. He has made sounds solo, with Chastity Potatoe, Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura, Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra, Kalbakken, Andrew Cheetham, Sam Andreae, Rogier Smal, Olie Brice, Toby Delius, Mark Sanders, Richard Scott, Philip…
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strikethrough me & you – 13 March 2014
strikethrough me & you is a duo between Rodrigo Constanzo and Sam Andreae which explores improvisation through battle and game pieces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqfksFWRlqk https://vimeo.com/82950622 http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com http://www.samandreae.com Click here to download the performances Who strikethrough me & you When Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20…
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Richard Knight – 12 December 2013
Knight’s interests include feedback, modeling organic processess with digital systems, machine learning for composition, data driven art, automated analysis and composition, and making phat beats. Many of his aspirations are based on a controversial foundation, with focus on a hypothetical singularity whereby music performance and composition can be fully automised, and musicians as we know…
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Richard Craig – 10 April 2014
Born in Glasgow, Richard studied flute at the RSAMD with Richard Blake and Sheena Gordon, continuing his studies with the assistance of a Dewar Award, with Mario Caroli at the Conservatoire National de Strasbourg. Formative experiences include working with composers Brian Ferneyhough, James Dillon and Helmut Lachenmann. He has been invited to perform with groups…
