Tag: manchester
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Instrument Building Workshop – 13 May 2010
Instrument design is many things to many people. It brought us the modern orchestra, the engineering feat that is the grand piano, the digital sampler, and a near endless world of things in between. There are several classes of instruments (as can be seen on page 3) and we will explore nearly all of them…
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Darnall Sinfonia – 8 April 2010
Tom Owen, Steven Jouanny and Johnny Hunter are current and former Sheffield University Students who pop up here and there on the Sheffield and Derbyshire amateur circuits. Our genuine musical concerns include The European and American Avant Garde, Krautrock, Be-bop, Post-bop, Fusion, Industrial, Ska, During Rock, Phonetic Mash-up, Basementcore, Proto-skiffle, Alsace Sham-revival Drones, Rural Doom…
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NUS Label Launch Party – 28 March 2010
Exciting performances by NUS Artists Gift of Life and Rodrigo Constanzo. Also the performance of Cobra by workshop participants. ……………………………………. John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrage of noise, a social experiment, or every piece of music you’ve (n)ever played or heard. I…
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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…
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Orfeo 5 Podcast – 11 March 2010
I’ve tried to give a very broad overview of shared loves and influences of orfeo 5 without leaning too far in any one direction. They are all there in our sound some obvious some not so obvious. Hope you like it Shaun (orfeo 5) Tracklisting: 1. Nine Barrow Down – Field Recording by Keith Jafrate…
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Takahashi’s shellfish concern – 11 March 2010
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela Guyton and Rodrigo Constanzo create a new event that requires the audience to consider this merger of music and art as a single expression. The concept for Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern took shape in…
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John Zorn’s COBRA Workshop – 11 February 2010
John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrageof noise, a social experiment, or every piece of music you’ve (n)ever played or heard. I can’t be certain as to which it is or isn’t but I do know that it involves a group of performers, a…
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Apropos Podcast – 11 February 2010
Since most of the music that really influences me (all pop music influences me) is by nature long and slow, I decided to skip all that and just go for an eclectic mix of songs I love. No thought was put into this (because then it would have been as long as I am old),…
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Trio Forge / Sehnaoui / Toulemonde – 14 January 2010
Born in 1978 and living in France, Christine is from lebanese origins. It is with the discovering of improvised music in 1997 that Christine Sehnaoui decided to start her own autodidact study of sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. She creates a personal language on how to make electronic music on an acoustic instrument. Far…
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Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern – 10 December 2009
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela Guyton and Rodrigo Constanzo create a new event that requires the audience to consider this merger of music and art as a single expression. The concept for Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern took shape in…
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Ingrid Laubrock – 17 November 2009
German born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is teaming up once again with acclaimed UK pianist Liam Noble and one of New York’s finest drummers, Tom Rainey for an exciting brand of new improvised music. Sleepthief play with a wide spectrum of sound, rhythm, space and colour whilst maintaining a strong feeling for form. Those of you…
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Gift of Life / Filario Farinoppo – 12 November 2009
“Gift of Life” is a freely improvising duo consisting of Timothy McCormack on flutes & bassoons and Ray Evanoff on amplified cymbal & objects. They began playing together shortly after meeting at the Uni. Huddersfield in the fall of 2008, where they both are pursuing PhDs in music composition under the direction of Aaron Cassidy.…
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Gift of Life Podcast – 9 November 2009
For my podcast, I tried to represent the diversity of musics to which I am most drawn, as well as include several recordings which I consider to be “must-hears”. The selected pieces generally break down into one of three genres: contemporary composition, free improvisation, or intelligent dance music (“IDM”), with a track by Medeski, Martin…
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Laptop Workshop – 8 October 2009
Laptops make great musical instruments there’s so much you can do with them. Effects, live coding, processing, sampling just some of the fun you can have with a laptop. Laptops are increasingly ubiquitous while the capabilities and instrumental performance opportunities are ever increasing. We are offing a free laptop noise making workshop as part of the October Noise Upstairs.…
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Tullis Rennie / Laptop Workshop Performance – 8 October 2009
Tullis Rennie is an electronic musician currently based in Barcelona. He is one man with a laptop, some instruments, one very long pair of legs and some nice friends with beautiful vocal talents, all fueled with a tasty packet of biscuits. His music is a combination of haunting melodies, glimmering textures, bass swells, stuttering beats…
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Tullis Rennie – 8 October 2009
This selection is mainly focused on the electronic music I’ve been listening to recently – squashed, sideways beats, fuzzy-edged electronica and recent dubstep excursions. These are peppered with other tunes that have tickled my ear of late – remixes to rival the originals, singer-sonwriters to file under ‘inventive / interesting’, some heavyweight brass action and…
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Shiggajon – 30 September 2009
Shiggajon are performing with Dreamer’s Cloth, Mouths Of The Irrawaddy and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides. “Fiercely beautiful arcs of droning strings and flute swirl with the burning of a desert sun. This is rich and spicy music full of eastern tones and smoke-filled ragas. The fact this collective gather sandstorms from Denmark…
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Rodrigo Constanzo / PA Tremblay CD Release Party – 27 September 2009
It all started with a gig. Rodrigo Constanzo and PA Tremblay shared a stage in late 2008 and both enjoyed each others playing so much that a recording date was arrange for early 2009. This CD is that recording date. Not having ever played with each other, the two setup in a studio, with no…
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Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra – 10 September 2009
The Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra (L.B.O) is the efforts of Zeke Clough, David Birchall, and Huw Wahl. L.B.O seeks to use constructed instruments alongside the conventional, to provide reclaimed sounds that interact and delve into the feelings of the players, the space – and the audience. The group is therefore as much a cathartic tool as…
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Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra Podcast – 10 September 2009
The Northern Wire was a radio show on Manchester’s ALL FM. Show was started in 2002 by David Armes who passed the baton on to Anthony Saunders and David Birchall around 2005 they ran with the show til its retirement earlier in this year; 2009. The show was characterized by a totally lack of musical policy…