Tag: manchester
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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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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…
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“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…
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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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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…
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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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Helmut Lemke – 11 January 2012
http://www.sound-art.de Imagine you have a plastic bottle…. You fill it with water and you hang it upside down…. You make a little hole in the cap…. and then you sit back, you wait and you listen – drips appear – they fall – they hit sounds … inaudible when the water squeezes through the little…
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Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011
All the way from Rome, Italy! Click here to download the performances Who Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011 When Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW Other InfoMemoria Zero, all the way from Rome, Italy.
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Circuit-Bending Part 2
Title: Circuit Bending Workshop Location: MadLab Description: If you’ve ever wanted to get into circuit-bending or DIY electronics in general, this circuit-bending workshop, presented by The Noise Upstairs, will give you an introduction into the art of bending. Over the course of two sessions you will learn some basic electronics and soldering, and end up with your very…
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L’Ocelle Mare – 23 October 2011
Thomas Bonvalet, (born October, 1977) lives between the forest of « la Double », in the south-west of France and Alpedrete, Spain. Guitar player of the band Cheval de frise between 1998 and 2004, he made is first solo show under the name of l’ocelle mare in September 2005. He toured Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, USA…
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Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 10 November 2011
Sam Andreae and Anton Hunter first met playing in Ben Cottrell’s Beats & Pieces Big Band, and quickly went on to form their quartet Haq to explore the boundaries between composed and improvised music. This latest tour (with release to follow) is a complete embrace of the freely improvised, still working together though performing alone.…
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Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 13 October 2011
Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – The Bhs 3 are a recently formed Trio exploring the Sax/Double Bass/Drums improvised format.The Trio are currently recording a CD for release later in the year. Melodic, Rhythmic and Textural explorations. Individually they have worked with musicians such as Stuart McCallum, John Stevens,Phil Wachsmann and Dudu Pukwana. Paul Baylis Alto Sax Jon…
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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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Wolf Scarers Podcast – 14 July 2011
1. Cloud Plate: Robot Mudra 2. Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You For Talkin’ To Me, Africa 3. John Surman: On The Wing Again 4. Tricky: Carriage For Two 5. Arild Andersen: The Island 6. Henry Threadgill: Official Silence 7. Bloodcount: Is That A Gap? 8. Van Morrison: Slim Slow Slider
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Michel Doneda & Jonas Kocher + Wolf Scarers – 26 September 2011
Michel Doneda soprano saxophone Jonas Kocher accordion, objects Accordion and saxophone, an association of more conventional after all, but beware! the sign is never the road! Kocher and Doneda have their own way, reinvesting their respective instruments by focusing on the infinitely small, in the heart of the matter, the elusive textures, projects in the real space…
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“Six Memos” featuring lots of NUS regulars
Some of you might remember Daniel Ledda from when he performed back in December 2010. Well part of why he was in Manchester was that he was making a film based on Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino. Well some of the clips from that have started surfacing online and you can…
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NUS vs Blank Media – 17 July 2011
A special event to celebrate the final day of cara b = side b as a collaboration between Noise Upstairs and Blank Media Collective. The Noise Upstairs is an improv collective running free-improv jam nights in Manchester and Sheffield. The basic premise is that anyone can turn up and join in by putting their name…
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Wolf Scarers – 14 July 2011
Wolf Scarers are Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, both playing tenor saxophones. They’ve known each other for years but have never played together until, after appearing on the same bill at Huddersfield’s Inclusive Improv last year, it occurred to Simon to suggest some duets. So they got together at Oldham Music Centre and scared the…
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Circuit Bending Workshop – Part 2
Ever since we did the first circuit-bending workshop people have been asking when we will be doing another one. Well, we’re doing another one! Click here to download the leaflet with the info/details. It will have some intermediate bending/electronic stuff as well has covering the same ground the first workshop did (for those who are…
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NUS vs MANTIS – 10 June 2011
A special joint venture between The Noise Upstairs and the MANTIS festival. Come check out some great music by NUS regulars as well as other great events/performances. Where?: Cosmo Rodewald, Martin Harris Centre, MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE FOR MUSIC AND DRAMA, The University of Manchester, Bridgeford Street, Manchester M13 9PL [click for map] Artists: TNU- The…