Mar
4
The Dissonance Collective is a group of musicians and artists who create free improvised objects. People often talk about projects, TDC creates objects. Projects are worked on and planned whereas each TDC performance represents a chunk of time (or time/space […]
Feb
9
This month for our first Tod birthday we welcome Pizdetz. Georgios Stenos Frantzios and Stephen Summers from Noisy Toys bring a collection of re-animated miscellany and a cello upstairs. Springs, strings and interesting things with fans and pans and something […]
Feb
3
This month we’re delighted to welcome Hedge Fund Managers to The Noise Upstairs Room frequency jamming and detune protocols narrowcast with scramble emergency code relay evocation. Corrupted crosstalk chaos pacification. Ritual derangement within self-aware pathways and unsigned posts, establishment of […]
Jan
21
For the first Todmorden session of 2020 we’re delighted to welcome Lisa Lavery. She’ll be performing an improvisational piece of hers which was initially a sound collage commissioned by the Calderdale branch of Yorkshire Sound Women Network. Inspired by and […]
Jan
1
SOUND OF LEAM is HARRY DAWES ( trombone, theremin, electronics,) and SIMON PRINCE ( saxophone, flute.) Harry & Simon have made music together in theatre & dance, in processional & celebratory music, in Soca & improvised music bands, in […]
Dec
10
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the pub, A creature was playing electric golf club. Or something like that (I’ve got things to do!) The long and short of it is that The Noise Upstairs Todmorden is having […]
Nov
17
Pollen Count is a new trio of Lou on vocals & loops, Richard Knight on no-input mixer and Keith Jafrate on saxophone, three very different musical personalities each with their own approach, and all active in the Calder Valley’s vibrant […]
Nov
15
This month in Todmorden we’re delighted to welcome Otis Jordan into the fold. Otis is an experimental guitarist who works with field recordings and constructed instruments to forge a sonic vision that is eerie, jauntily melodic and entirely his own. […]
Nov
7
Artist, composer and improvising musician, Hervé plays saxophones, shakuhachi and laptop in various groups and produces music between jazz, contemporary and electroacoustic music. He has released three albums with Inclusion Principle (Discus label), as well as recordings in collaboration with […]
Oct
17
Hello all! This month’s Todmorden guest set comes from a brand new duo of Simon Prince and Johnny Hunter. Both are fabulous musicians and frequent visitors to the Manchester Noise Upstairs events. You may know Simon from his many appearances […]
