Tag: objects
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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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Post-Pollination – 8 August 2024
Henry McPherson, Maria Sappho, Colin Frank “Formed in the depths of the covid-19 pandemic in the wilds of northeast Huddersfield, Post-Pollination are Henry McPherson (UK), Maria Sappho (USA), and Colin Frank (CA). As improviser/composer/instrument-builder hybrids, the group advocates trans-species improvised noise (and not-noise) for wellbeing, joy, and collective creativity. On 8th August, in their first…
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Duo Coote Zaldua – 14 March 2024
James Coote and Alistair Zaldua established duet improvisation over the course of 2023. James plays an experimental drum set-up that includes a diverse array of objects, and Alistair plays the 5-stringed e-violin. Recent releases: Duo Gallio Zaldua: Curses and Spirits (2023) https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/curses-and-spirits Duo Pons Zaldua: crossings (2023) https://panyrosasdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/crossings Trio CZW: Where The Wind Takes Us…
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Whiteley, Morton, Jackson, and Bright – 14 December 2023
Gill Whiteley is a multi-media improviser and artist working with instruments, objects and assorted materials. Clayton Jackson improvises with modulated percussion and objects, occasional adaptations, moving image, and events. Phil Morton, accidents and treatments. Performance forged in the air that it moves. Geoff Bright is an improviser and live art performer working with sound (mainly…