Tag: manchester
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265 Trio – 9 June 2011
Ben Cottrell (winds) Rod Skipp (cello) Anton Hunter (guitar). Exploring the space between contemporary classical music, free jazz and electroacoustic improvisation. A new collective chamber group that recently made its debut appearance as the 265 Quartet at the 2010 Manchester Jazz Festival, having previously supported Ingrid Laubrock’s Sleepthief project. Featuring instrumentation from a mixture of families,…
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Phil Marks & Dave Birchall – 12 May 2011
Dave Birchall was born in Leicester and started playing the guitar there in 1995. He moved to Manchester in 1999 and still live here. His work as a musician has been in several areas: in improvising within and without structures and in writing and arranging music. At present he am focused on working on developing…
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Sonia Paço-Rocchia / Feedback Workshop Performance – 14 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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No-Input Mixer Workshop – 14 April 2011
To sign up email workshops@thenoiseupstairs.com or talk to Anton or Rodrigo (or Richard!). Workshop dates will be March 20th and 27th with the performance happening April 14th. ‘No-input’ describes the state of an audio mixer fed back into itself. The name is slightly misleading however: there is input to the mixer – the output. Audio mixers…
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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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Wolf Scarers – 13 January 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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Daniele Ledda – 9 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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Yuri Landman + Special Guests – 13 November 2010
Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier and musicologist who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn. He will be performing with participants of the HomeSwinger workshop as well as other special guests. Event held…
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Yuri Landman – Homeswinger Workshop – 12 November 2010
The Moodswinger is a new electric 12-string instrument invented by Yuri Landman. Developed over six years of prototyping and fully realised in 2006 for the band Liars, Yuri has custom built derivatives for such musical luminaries as Sonic Youth, David Holmes, Half Japanese, Enon, Lou Barlow, dEUS, The Dodos, Blood Red Shoes, HEALTH, Liam Finn,…
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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 Podcast – 10 September 2010
Three Inscapes: I – Douglas Lilburn Three Inscapes: II – Douglas Lilburn Three Inscapes: III – Douglas Lilburn Concret PH – Iannis Xenakis Te Hau Kuri (Dog’s Breath) – Hirini Melbourne/Richard Nunns Ygghur: II Giacinto Scelsi (Frances-Marie Uitti- ‘cello) La Naisance Du Son – Gérard Pape, Rohan de Saram, amplified cello Kule Kule Reprise –…
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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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Partial Trust – 12 August 2010
Partial Trust is a new collaboration between Richard Knight and Abigail Sanders, exploiting the relationship between unadulterated acoustic and electronic phenomena. Sourcing from the hauntingly rich and pure timbres of the French Horn, Abigail emphasizes the natural acoustics of the instrument through multiple extended techniques, in a never-ending attempt to synchronize with (or combat against)…
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Partial Trust Podcast – 11 August 2010
This podcast literally takes you on a journey – by interspersing a variety of influential tracks with field recordings from inside a train. I recommend a fun game to enhance the experience of listening – listen to it at not quite full volume on a train and become aurally confused! Observe your mood when…
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The Hunter Brothers – 8 July 2010
Anton Hunter, Johnny Hunter, Sam Andreae and Ben Cotrell lay down some law.
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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…