Author: Rodrigo

  • Duo Coote Zaldua – 14 March 2024

    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…

  • Gidouille – 8 February 2024

    Gidouille – 8 February 2024

    This month our guests are Gidouille, featuring Kath Tyldesley (Theremin, Glockenspiel), and Mike Tyldesley (Sax, Flute, electronica). They’ve been exploring nonsense recently and will report on some of their findings. Who Gidouille – 8 February 2024 When Thursday, February 8, 2024 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20…

  • Minimum Wage Immanence Unit – 11 January 2024

    Minimum Wage Immanence Unit – 11 January 2024

    David Birchall (guitar) brings his trio with Adam Fairhall on accordion and Michael Perrett on bass clarinet. The band is called Minimum Wage Immanence Unit. https://davidbirchall.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-cypress Who Minimum Wage Immanence Unit – 11 January 2024 When Thursday, January 11, 2024 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW…

  • Whiteley, Morton, Jackson, and Bright – 14 December 2023

    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…

  • Thorpe / Prince / Heath – 9 November 2023

    Thorpe / Prince / Heath – 9 November 2023

    Rob Thorpe – baritone electric guitar Simon Prince – flute Sylvie Heath – voice and flute The trio are drawn to the smallest of sounds, and embrace the spaces that frame them. With each member having a background in contemporary classical music the pieces form with a sense of detail and concentration. Simon Prince is…

  • Emil Karden / Lawrence Casserley – 12 October 2023

    Emil Karden / Lawrence Casserley – 12 October 2023

    A first time duo performance with Lawrence Casserley (live-signal processing) and Emil Karlsen (drums). Best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing of other musicians’ sound, Casserley has devised a special computer processing instrument for this work. He has worked with many of the finest improvisers, particularly Evan Parker, with whom…

  • Alistair Zaldua, James Coote, and Andrew Rothwell – 14 September 2023

    Alistair Zaldua, James Coote, and Andrew Rothwell – 14 September 2023

    Only recently having moved to Manchester Alistair Zaldua previously lived in Canterbury where in 2015 he set up the Free Range Orchestra, which is an all-comers improvisation collective, and is closely associated with the Free Range experimental and improvised music Concert Series. Alistair is interested in collaboration; recent projects include duet work with Christoph Gallio…

  • Samson – 10 August 2023

    Samson: a freely improvising noise covers band oozing from the depths of the south Manchester student underground scene. Who Samson – 10 August 2023 When Thursday, August 10, 2023 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW Other InfoSamson: a freely improvising noise covers band oozing from the…

  • Bartholomew – 8 June 2023

    Bartholomew – 8 June 2023

    Bartholomew (or Chris to his friends) is a composer, improviser and technologist based in Newcastle. Live, Bartholomew uses a carefully curated set of eclectic electronics to weave evolving textures from audio ephemera. Expect to hear internet detritus, electromagnetic fields and amplified cookware. Who Bartholomew – 8 June 2023 When Thursday, June 8, 2023 8:00pm -…

  • The Bottom End – 11 May 2023

    The Bottom End – 11 May 2023

    The Bottom End is Geoff Bright on bass saxophone, voice and stuff and Mick Beck on bassoon and other things. Overjoyed to be back at Noise Upstairs after the bad, bad days of Covid, we’ll continue our interrogation of the sonic basement possibilities of the timber grumbler and the brassy belcher – with a whoop…

  • the three muses – 14 April 2023

    the three muses – 14 April 2023

    the three muses are: untitled woman – vocals & electronics keith jafrate – saxophone regular viewers might know them as 2/3 of pollen count (richard knight being the missing third). this new duo venture shares some characteristics with that trio, but also evolves the approach, with more live manipulation of the sound, and a stronger…

  • James Coote and Andrew Rothwell

    James Coote and Andrew Rothwell

    James Coote and Andrew Rothwell will be performing with two drum kitsand assorted percussion. James will also be playing saxophone, and theaim is to investigate the possibilities of double percussion in a freeimprov setting. Who James Coote and Andrew Rothwell When Thursday, March 9, 2023 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow…

  • The Dissonance Collective – 12 March 2020

    The Dissonance Collective – 12 March 2020

    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 to be Einsteinian about it) which exists with or without their input. They choose to…

  • Hedge Fund Managers – 13 February 2020

    Hedge Fund Managers – 13 February 2020

    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 mutiny in the order: schismatic schematics. Dishabited apparatus delivery quotients of mediated protean focus traits.…

  • Hervé Perez – 14 November 2019

    Hervé Perez – 14 November 2019

    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 artists from around the world and solo work on various netlabels. Hervé has worked as…

  • John Jasnoch + Martin Archer – 12 September 2019

    John Jasnoch + Martin Archer – 12 September 2019

    John Jasnoch – multiple plucked string instrument specialist, switched from general popular music to improvised music/free jazz in 1979, continues to perform and record with various regular and ad hoc ensembles. Martin Archer is a composer / improviser who is equally at home on stage or in the studio.  His own distinctive saxophone playing is…

  • Sophie Cooper – 26 March 2019

    Sophie Cooper – 26 March 2019

    Sophie Cooper is a West Yorkshire based trombone, guitar player and vocalist. Sophie makes music that explores notions of narrative within unlikely settings through various solo and collaborative song writing projects. In addition to performing and composition, Sophie is heavily involved in the UK underground DIY scene promoting regular shows in Todmorden under the name…

  • ELDA – 14 March 2019

    ELDA – 14 March 2019

    ELDA is a longstanding duo collaboration between piano/keyboard player Andrew Woodhead and trumpeter Aaron Diaz (The Destroyers, Sid Peacock), mixing acoustic sounds with live electronics and soundscapes. For their latest project they are collaborating with Norwegian vocalist Kari Eskild Havenstrøm(Trondheim Voices, Kristoffer Lo), with whom Andrew first performed at Cheltenham Jazz Festival as part of a Trondheim/Birmingham musical exchange. This recording…

  • Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker – 26 February 2019

    Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker – 26 February 2019

    Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker are good friends and creative collaborators whose wide-ranging work encompasses folklore, instrument design, visual arts, noise, harmony, intuition, arcana, field recordings, tinctures, icy swims, moors and mills. Except when it doesn’t. http://www.folkloretapes.co.uk http://www.samandtheplants.co.uk What better way to launch The Noise Upstairs Todmorden? Before and after their set, there will…

  • Michael Perrett Rob Thorpe Duo – 14 February 2019

    Michael Perrett Rob Thorpe Duo – 14 February 2019

    Michael Perrett is, amongst other things, a musician based in Manchester. He studied clarinet and composition at the RNCM. As a composer, he has written for EXAUDI and The House of Bedlam and his music has been performed internationally and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. As an improvisor he has collaborated with Otto Willberg, Sam…