Tag: electronics
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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,…
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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…
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Jason Kahn – 9 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…
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Diatribes – 3 November 2011
Following their amazing gig last year, D’incise and Cyril return with an expanded line-up featuring some of the UK’s best improvisers… Cyril Bondi – drums/percussion D’incise – objects/laptop Dominic Lash – double bass Phil Durrant – laptop/sound manipulation Hannah Marshall – cello Patrick Farmer – objects/percussion Also playing will be the Manchester super-group that is…
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Martin Archer & Steve Chase – 14 September 2011
Martin Archer – iPad, woodwind Steve Chase – guitar, miscellaneous instruments Martin and Steve have played together regularly over the last few years in the context of larger groups (Coastguard All Stars, Gated Community, Juxtavoices, Showroom Ensemble), but this will be their first concert as a duo. To mark the occasion they have chosen to…
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Beck, Hunter, & Perez Trio – 10 August 2011
Hervé Perez (electonics, sax), who uses many methods to forge vibrations and sculpt the harmonies that will rattle the nerves of academia, will be joining forces with UK Free Improvisation stalwart, Mick Beck (reeds & whistles), the critically acclaimed free jazz sax and bassoon player. Providing some much needed percussion will be The Noise Upstairs’…
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Acrid Lactations – 11 August 2011
Acrid Lactations is the duo of primitivist improvisers Susan Fitzpatrick and Stuart Arnot. With no fixed instrumentation or approach, they use musical/non-musical, acoustic/electronic, live/pre-recorded sounds in a psychedelic stramash of noise, free-jazz, concrète, sound poetry and confusion, hanging onto the wet end of the Group Ongaku/Nihilist Spasm Band/LAFMS/A Band/Prick Decay continuum. http://totalvermin.blogspot.com/ Click here to…
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Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 13 April 2011
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,…
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Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, and Iain Harrison – 10 February 2011
New trio featuring our very own Rodrigo Constanzo, along with Ray Evanoff, which you might remember from Atemnt, who released an amazing CD on NUS Records, and Iain Harrison. This is their CD launch tour/gig. The record is amazing. For more info: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com http://rayevanoff.wordpress.com Click here to download the recordings
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Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, and Iain Harrison – 9 February 2011
New trio featuring our very own Rodrigo Constanzo, along with Ray Evanoff, which you might remember from Atemnt, who released an amazing CD on NUS Records, and Iain Harrison. This is their CD launch tour/gig. The record is amazing. For more info: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com http://rayevanoff.wordpress.com Click here to download the recordings
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Daniele Ledda – 8 December 2010
About Daniele Ledda Composer. He studied wind instruments, piano, composition, electronic music, information technology. He worked as a teacher, and in the field of composition, improvisation, sound recording, electronic music, music for dance, for video and theater. He has worked with: Alessandro Olla, Roberto Pellegrini, David Barittoni, Fernando Grillo, Marcus Stockhausen, Fabrizio Casti, Marcello Pusceddu, Franco…
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Parallax – 1 December 2010
Parallax is one of those rare and lucky collaborations where there is a great sense of chemistry from the very beginning. Since forming the group in 2008 they have toured and recorded extensively in Europe, and present a selection of this material on their debut album Live in the UK. These musicians are musically so…
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Kacper Ziemianin, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn – 14 November 2010
Artist: Kacper Ziemianin, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn Bio: London based musicians, Kacper Zieminian, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn, each coming from different backgrounds, met in 2007 at Middlesex University where making noise together was a natural consequence. The three form an improvisational musical act where there is no focus on musical melody,…
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The Inclusion Principle – 11 November 2010
We decided to base the name on a theory of the research physicist Wolfgang Pauli. we found a correlation in that we both worked with a digital scalpel on fields of microsounds; a science which took both our instruments and processed field recordings a little closer to the chemistry of natural sounds, complete with harmonic…
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Diatribes – 1 November 2010
d’incise: laptop, objects, treatements Cyril Bondi: drums, percussions and guest(s):… “magnetic freedom, interaction, intensity and fluctuation, breaths, quiverings, cracklings, bearings, masses, crash, chaos. Sound matter builded, deformed, tears off influence of the reason, imploses and becomes again the dreams behind our eyelids” diatribes, a strongly libertarian ensemble, began its existence in a Geneva basement in…
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Graculus – 14 October 2010
Graculus is an improvising duo consisting of Richard Harding (acoustic & electric guitars) and Phil Hargreaves (saxophone & flute). Originally, the duo formed for a one-off show at Tate Liverpool in 2008, but the partnership blossomed over the next 2 ½ years. Phil is an experienced improvising musician, having worked with some of the UK’s…
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_Scape – 9 September 2010
Brothers Norm and Rod Skipp (electronics and ‘cello) combine forces again as _scape to unveil a sonic palette featuring live electronics, instrumental performance and improvised sound. Originally formed in 2008, the duo explore the interaction of live and pre-composed electronics with instrumental performance and have appeared as part of the last two Chorlton Arts Festivals.…
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Partwildhorsesmaneonbothsides – 10 June 2010
Pascal Nichols and Kelly Jones have shared the stage with acts such as Sonic Youth, Black Dice, Hrsta, Vanishing Voice, moha!, the A Band, KK Null, Birds Of Delay, Rhys Chatham, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Lucky Dragons, Corsano Flower Duo, blood stereo. They have also collectively collaborated with Os Loosers, Valerio Cosi, Christian Munthe,…
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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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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…