• Wire Assembly – 14 November 2012

    Wire Assembly – 14 November 2012

    WIRE ASSEMBLY Neil Carver/Ian Simpson/John Jasnoch: electric guitars 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…

  • Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 11 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 11 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia [sonja’ pa’so rɔ’kja] is a young artist who took a degree in instrumental and Electro-Acoustic Composition from the Université de Montréal after a double collegial diploma in natural sciences and music. She studied composition with Michel Tétreault, José Evangelista, Michel Smith, Michel Longtin and Jean Piché. Her work has been presented in Québec,…

  • Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 10 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 10 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia [sonja’ pa’so rɔ’kja] is a young artist who took a degree in instrumental and Electro-Acoustic Composition from the Université de Montréal after a double collegial diploma in natural sciences and music. She studied composition with Michel Tétreault, José Evangelista, Michel Smith, Michel Longtin and Jean Piché. Her work has been presented in Québec,…

  • Richard Knight – 13 September 2012

    Richard Knight – 13 September 2012

    Raised in the surroundings of conflicting natural beauty and industrial decay of northern England, many of Knight’s primary influences are based around the clash between organic and electronic. He began producing music and playing in diverse experimental bands/projects in and around Leeds, but had always been motivated by the the possibilities of encapsulating avant-garde stylings…

  • Fernando Perales – 12 September 2012

    Fernando Perales – 12 September 2012

    Fernando Perales/Viva La Muerte “the Andrei Rublev experience” tour/Europe/2012 Fernando Perales, musician, performer, cinema critic and box trainer, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1971. He is one of the most important figures of the experimental music and avant garde scene of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. Since 1995, for almost 10 years, Fernando…

  • John Pope – 9 August 2012

    John Pope – 9 August 2012

    John Pope on a mini-tour from his native Newcastle, presents a solo improvisation for double bass and tape recorders. John is a fine composer and improviser and has run projects such as the Improvisers Orchestra of the North (ION) based at the Sage, which displayed an incredible performance at the Gateshead Jazz Festival in 2009…

  • John Pope – 8 August 2012

    John Pope – 8 August 2012

    John Pope on a mini-tour from his native Newcastle, presents a solo improvisation for double bass and tape recorders. John is a fine composer and improviser and has run projects such as the Improvisers Orchestra of the North (ION) based at the Sage, which displayed an incredible performance at the Gateshead Jazz Festival in 2009…

  • Kipple – 13 June 2012

    Kipple – 13 June 2012

    Kipple is an extraordinary live experience, a six strong collective containing some of the leading electronic, experimental and free-jazz players based in the North of England.  At times an experimental electronics ensemble using acoustic samples – at others a crazed free-jazz group, with electronics adopting the traditional piano role – it is a music both…

  • Kipple – 14 June 2012

    Kipple – 14 June 2012

    Kipple is an extraordinary live experience, a six strong collective containing some of the leading electronic, experimental and free-jazz players based in the North of England.  At times an experimental electronics ensemble using acoustic samples – at others a crazed free-jazz group, with electronics adopting the traditional piano role – it is a music both…

  • DJ Sniff – 22 June 2012

    DJ Sniff – 22 June 2012

    (photo by Tanya Traboulsi) Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka dj sniff) is a musician, curator and producer in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design and free improvisation. He is interested in how a mediated musical memory, from archival collections of vinyl…

  • Rodrigo Constanzo – 10 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo – 10 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo will be performing a live set of improvised music using his ‘drums’ setup which includes very little drums at all. A three piece, nearly child’s sized kit, is modified, and augmented by home made electronic instruments including a three tiered zither like instrument, ‘electronic whisks’, circuit-bent drum machines, a nearly endless amount of brick-a-brack,…

  • Rodrigo Constanzo – 9 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo – 9 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo will be performing a live set of improvised music using his ‘drums’ setup which includes very little drums at all. A three piece, nearly child’s sized kit, is modified, and augmented by home made electronic instruments including a three tiered zither like instrument, ‘electronic whisks’, circuit-bent drum machines, a nearly endless amount of brick-a-brack,…

  • Amphibolous – 12 April 2012

    Amphibolous – 12 April 2012

    Amphibolous is Ash Steel, Adam Webster (Swung Dash) and Si Jones (Noise Club, Hot Hail). The group first got together in 2011 to work on a soundtrack for a short film about a failed DJ, but their musical chemistry shone through and Amphibolous was born. Amphibolous combines electronica, noise and free improvisation in one rollercoaster…

  • “Drums” – 8 March 2012

    “Drums” – 8 March 2012

    “Drums” A new quartet led by Johnny Hunter (drums/percussion) and featuring Rodrigo Constanzo (drums/percussion), Simon Prince (saxophone/percussion) and James Adolpho (double bass/percussion). Click here to download the performances. Who “Drums” – 8 March 2012 When Thursday, March 8, 2012 8:30pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW Other…

  • Splice & A Greater Horror – 21 March 2012

    Splice & A Greater Horror – 21 March 2012

    Splice’s raison d’être is to mesh together influences of contemporary jazz, free improv, loud and soft noise, punk grit, ambient music, and more… with seamless blends or blunt juxtapositions. Featuring Alex Bonney on trumpet and electronics, Robin Fincker on tenor sax and clarinet, Dave Smith on drums, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on bass guitar and electronics,…

  • Jez Riley French – 14 March 2012

    Jez Riley French – 14 March 2012

    Using intuitive composition, field recording, improvisation and photography, Jez has been exploring his enjoyment of detail, simplicity and his emotive response to places and situations for the past 3 decades. Alongside solo performances and exhibitions he collaborates with other artists, runs the ‘in place’ project on field recording – a subject on which he also…

  • Federico Reuben – 12 July 2012

    Federico Reuben – 12 July 2012

    About Fed­erico Reuben is a com­poser, sound artist and live-electronics per­former based in Lon­don. His work chal­lenges con­ven­tional rela­tion­ships between com­poser, per­former and audi­ence through imag­ined per­for­mance prac­tices, col­lab­o­ra­tions and modes of sonic rep­re­sen­ta­tion and pro­duc­tion. He plun­ders, com­bines and alters cul­tural objects (record­ings, live per­for­mances, scores, etc.) through dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to pro­duce amor­phous and…

  • Federico Reuben – 11 July 2012

    Federico Reuben – 11 July 2012

    About Fed­erico Reuben is a com­poser, sound artist and live-electronics per­former based in Lon­don. His work chal­lenges con­ven­tional rela­tion­ships between com­poser, per­former and audi­ence through imag­ined per­for­mance prac­tices, col­lab­o­ra­tions and modes of sonic rep­re­sen­ta­tion and pro­duc­tion. He plun­ders, com­bines and alters cul­tural objects (record­ings, live per­for­mances, scores, etc.) through dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to pro­duce amor­phous and…

  • Adam Beckley – 11 April 2012

    Adam Beckley – 11 April 2012

    Adam Beckley is an experimental musician from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, creating hypnotic textures of sound.His first solo work ‘Revere’ was released by the label ‘Carnage Club’ in August 2011. Adam has also released a split with Los Angeles musician ‘Beru’ (of Digitalis fame) which is available through his own cassette label ‘Armed Within…

  • 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…