Tag: bass

  • 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…

  • Seth Bennett & Cath Roberts – 9 November 2017

    Seth Bennett & Cath Roberts – 9 November 2017

    Cath Roberts and Seth Bennett started playing together in Roberts’ band Sloth Racket, set up to explore her compositions for free improvising ensemble, and decided to branch out into a duo as a side project. They play with the possibilities inherent in combining Bennett’s five string double bass with Roberts’ baritone saxophone – both instruments…

  • NUStival – 28 January 2017

    NUStival – 28 January 2017

    NUStival – a mini-festival of improvised music. Featuring selected groupings of: Mick Beck Cath Roberts Otto Willberg Ecka Mordecai Odie ji Ghast Rob Thorpe Geoff Bright Rodrigo Constanzo Anton Hunter and… A performance of John Zorn’s Cobra by the Noise Upstairs Workshop Group. Free entry. 7pm-11pm Sat 28 Jan Supported by Manchester Metropolitan University and…

  • Hunter/Willberg/Ward – 12 January 2017

    Hunter/Willberg/Ward – 12 January 2017

    Acoustic post-post-truth improv trio featuring Manchester legend Johnny Hunter on drums, young experimentalist Otto Willberg on double bass and triple-doubler Tom Ward on reeds and winds. Inspired by the avant-garde, improvisation, jazz, rock, noise and more, the trio’s members have collaborated with many great improvisers including Steve Beresford, Adam Fairhall, Dave Birchall, Mark Hanslip, Hannah…

  • BAH – 14 February 2013

    BAH – 14 February 2013

    “BAH!” Noise Upstairs regulars Seth Bennett (b), Sam Andreae (ts) and Johnny Hunter (d) performing acoustic, free improvisation. What could be more exciting! Who BAH – 14 February 2013 When Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW Other Info”BAH!” Seth Bennett (b), Sam…

  • DJ Sniff – 22 June 2012

    DJ Sniff – 22 June 2012

    (photo by Tanya Traboulsi) Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka dj sniff) is a musician, curator and producer in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design and free improvisation. He is interested in how a mediated musical memory, from archival collections of vinyl…

  • Splice & A Greater Horror – 21 March 2012

    Splice & A Greater Horror – 21 March 2012

    Splice’s raison d’être is to mesh together influences of contemporary jazz, free improv, loud and soft noise, punk grit, ambient music, and more… with seamless blends or blunt juxtapositions. Featuring Alex Bonney on trumpet and electronics, Robin Fincker on tenor sax and clarinet, Dave Smith on drums, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on bass guitar and electronics,…

  • Federico Reuben – 12 July 2012

    Federico Reuben – 12 July 2012

    About Fed­erico Reuben is a com­poser, sound artist and live-electronics per­former based in Lon­don. His work chal­lenges con­ven­tional rela­tion­ships between com­poser, per­former and audi­ence through imag­ined per­for­mance prac­tices, col­lab­o­ra­tions and modes of sonic rep­re­sen­ta­tion and pro­duc­tion. He plun­ders, com­bines and alters cul­tural objects (record­ings, live per­for­mances, scores, etc.) through dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to pro­duce amor­phous and…

  • Federico Reuben – 11 July 2012

    Federico Reuben – 11 July 2012

    About Fed­erico Reuben is a com­poser, sound artist and live-electronics per­former based in Lon­don. His work chal­lenges con­ven­tional rela­tion­ships between com­poser, per­former and audi­ence through imag­ined per­for­mance prac­tices, col­lab­o­ra­tions and modes of sonic rep­re­sen­ta­tion and pro­duc­tion. He plun­ders, com­bines and alters cul­tural objects (record­ings, live per­for­mances, scores, etc.) through dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to pro­duce amor­phous and…

  • Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011

    Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011

    All the way from Rome, Italy! Click here to download the performances Who Memoria Zero – 8 December 2011 When Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW Other InfoMemoria Zero, all the way from Rome, Italy.

  • Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 10 November 2011

    Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 10 November 2011

    Sam Andreae and Anton Hunter first met playing in Ben Cottrell’s Beats & Pieces Big Band, and quickly went on to form their quartet Haq to explore the boundaries between composed and improvised music.  This latest tour (with release to follow) is a complete embrace of the freely improvised, still working together though performing alone.…

  • Stuckometer / Abscond – 8 September 2011

    Stuckometer / Abscond – 8 September 2011

    “Stuckometer is a free improvised no wave noise rock from the NorthWest of England originally formed in 2005. The third wave of the band consists of David Birchall (guitar) Karl Sveinsonn (guitar) JOINCEY (bass) Pascal Nichols (percussion). Recent CDR out on Total Vermin and forthcoming on Kovorax Sound.” www.myspace.com/stckmtr Also joining them this evening is…

  • Trio of Sheffield Musicians – 10 March 2011

    Trio of Sheffield Musicians – 10 March 2011

    Trio of Sheffield musicians put together especially to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Sheffield NUS.  Mick Beck (reeds & whistles), Seth Bennett (double bass) and Peter Fairclough (drums & percussion). Click here to download the performances

  • Darnall Sinfonia – 14 April 2010

    Darnall Sinfonia – 14 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…

  • Darnall Sinfonia – 8 April 2010

    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…

  • Rodrigo Constanzo / PA Tremblay CD Release Party – 27 September 2009

    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…

  • Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – 11 June 2009

    Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – 11 June 2009

    Pierre Alexandre Tremblay was born in 1975 in Montréal, Québec. He studied classical guitar and music theory from an early age, and as a teenager discovered bass guitar with Jean-Guy Larin, Sylvain Bolduc and Michel Donato. He also studied composition with Michel Tétrault, Marcelle Deschênes and Jonty Harrison. He earned his BA in music at…

  • Jon Thorne – 4 May 2008

    Jon Thorne – 4 May 2008

    An evening of uncomposed sounds.” – Jam session with featured artists. Jon Thorne (Lamb, Oedipus Complex) performing a rare solo bass and electronics set. Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra collaborating for the first time with midlands improv-quartet Black Carrot. They Destroyed His Image; laptop duo from the MANTIS collective. In amongst these sets the artists will all…