Browsing articles from "November, 2010"
Nov
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Kacper Ziemianin, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn – 14 November 2010

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Artist: Kacper Ziemianin, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn Bio: London based musicians, Kacper Zieminian, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn, each coming from different backgrounds, met in 2007 at Middlesex University where making noise together was a natural consequence. [...]

Nov
13

Yuri Landman + Special Guests – 13 November 2010

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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 [...]

Nov
12

Yuri Landman – Homeswinger Workshop – 12 November 2010

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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 [...]

Nov
11

The Inclusion Principle – 11 November 2010

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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 [...]

Nov
10

John Jasnoch & Charlie Collins – 10 November 2010

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John Jasnoch MySpace Bio Began life in 1953 in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. The compost heap of the Garden of England. After interest in instrumental music of Bert Weedon and then The Shadows, began [...]

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Diatribes – 1 November 2010

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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 [...]

About The Noise Upstairs

The Noise Upstairs is an improv collective which runs free-improv nights in Manchester and Sheffield, as well as putting on other improv related events. The basic premise is that anyone can turn up and join in by putting their name in the hat. Names are pulled out, ensembles formed, and hearts broken.

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