Tag: electronics
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Ensemble 50:50 – 14 November 2024
Phil Morton has been working with the Music System 50:50 for improvisers for twenty-four years. His work explores the possibilities and the limitations of freedom and improvisation in music. Today for Phil Morton System 50:50 is still the gift that keeps giving! How can this be so? How can an adapted chess clock used in…
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Mark Hanslip – 12 December 2024
Mark Hanslip is an improvising saxophonist and technologist based in the north west of England. His solo work augments his acoustic sound with a mix of off-the-shelf hardware, hand-written software and bespoke AI models. This hybrid setup allows him to build frameworks for experimentation with sound, slicing, recombining and mutating his playing in new ways.…
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Redhead/Jolly/Zaldua – 10 October 2024
words and music This trio of Lauren Redhead (electronics, voice), Amy Jolly (cello) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin) will perform improvised interpretations and responses of experimental texts composed and read out by Lauren Redhead. These texts are composed from a wide variety of sources, including recipes, texts on digital aesthetics, instructions for action, etc, and will…
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Gidouille – 8 February 2024
This month our guests are Gidouille, featuring Kath Tyldesley (Theremin, Glockenspiel), and Mike Tyldesley (Sax, Flute, electronica). They’ve been exploring nonsense recently and will report on some of their findings. Who Gidouille – 8 February 2024 When Thursday, February 8, 2024 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20…
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Bartholomew – 8 June 2023
Bartholomew (or Chris to his friends) is a composer, improviser and technologist based in Newcastle. Live, Bartholomew uses a carefully curated set of eclectic electronics to weave evolving textures from audio ephemera. Expect to hear internet detritus, electromagnetic fields and amplified cookware. Who Bartholomew – 8 June 2023 When Thursday, June 8, 2023 8:00pm -…
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the three muses – 14 April 2023
the three muses are: untitled woman – vocals & electronics keith jafrate – saxophone regular viewers might know them as 2/3 of pollen count (richard knight being the missing third). this new duo venture shares some characteristics with that trio, but also evolves the approach, with more live manipulation of the sound, and a stronger…
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ELDA – 14 March 2019
ELDA is a longstanding duo collaboration between piano/keyboard player Andrew Woodhead and trumpeter Aaron Diaz (The Destroyers, Sid Peacock), mixing acoustic sounds with live electronics and soundscapes. For their latest project they are collaborating with Norwegian vocalist Kari Eskild Havenstrøm(Trondheim Voices, Kristoffer Lo), with whom Andrew first performed at Cheltenham Jazz Festival as part of a Trondheim/Birmingham musical exchange. This recording…
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HRH Trio + Whiteman/Prince/Thorpe – 15 October 2018
A collaboration with our good friends at NQ Jazz on Monday 15th October at The Whiskey Jar. Details below… HRH Trio Mark Hanslip – Saxophone Federico Reuben – Live Electronics Paul Hession – Drums Heavy improv from heavy improvisers. Listen here. Whiteman / Prince / Thorpe trio Nina Whiteman – voice/stylophone Simon Prince – flutes…
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Drift Ensemble – 11 October 2018
Comprising composer-improvisers, percussion, violin, recorder, soprano and electronics, DriftEnsemble specializes in presenting experimental contemporary music. Our collective integrates each individual’s making, demonstrating the multidisciplinary practices – composition and interpretation, improvisation, live-electronic MAX/MSP coding, musicological thinking – we engage. Media link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr187RYKYOOVSbDD7Q5WJfw Who Drift Ensemble – 11 October 2018 When Thursday, October 11, 2018 8:00pm – All…
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Kate Armitage+Gary Fisher / Ctrl Freq – 12 October 2017
Kate Armitage and Gary Fisher will bring together their unique individual styles of improvisation for a collaborative performance involving found objects, percussion and other curious noises. There will be discord, humour and possibly, moments of harmony. Kate’s debut solo album is out now on cassette on Fractal Meat Cuts. katearmitage.com Gary will be composer in…
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Deemer – 8 December 2016
Deemer is a continuing conversation that is always inquisitive, searching and fresh. We are constantly shedding old skin, evolving and innovating. The brain-child of Merijn Royaards and Dee Byrne, Deemer started life in 2006 as a weekly improvisation/electronics session in a warehouse in Hackney Wick. The project has since evolved into an installation/performance based electro-acoustic…
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Sound Quartet – 8 September 2016
SQ (aka Sound Quartet) is imaginary soundscapes, electronic experimentalism, composed impro art of electrified sounds and images. SQ often tour as a duo with multi-instrumentalists Paul Pignon and Thomas Bjelkeborn. SQ is currently involved in music projects with Nadia Ratsimandrecy(FR) and experimental research at SOPI Helsingfors with Koray Tahiroglu(T). www.sound quartet.se Thomas Bjelkeborn is a sound…
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Jorge Boehringer – 14 April 2016
Jorge Boehringer is an composer, artist, musician, and researcher exploring large scale landscapes, microscopic layers of process and form and how they interact with perceptual experience. Utilizing a protean platform for experimentation and presentation, Boehringer creates performances, recordings, music, installations, texts, three-dimensional objects, and visual phenomena. Inspired by, and at times modeled after observed environmental…
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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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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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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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Sam Andreae – 10 January 2013
“I’ve been working for some years now on live electronics, I mostly use analogue and homemade gear. Noise boxes, pick-ups, contact mics, etc… I’ve spent much time considering how to integrate the electronic components with my acoustic saxophone playing and the different ways the sounds can interact. I use the set-up in solo performances and…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…