Tag: guitar
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rider//Taylor – 13 December 2018
Rider//Taylor are one of the most exciting new duos to emerge from the fertile Leeds experimental scene. Mixing fiery improvisations, delicate soundscapes and haunting melodies-the pair share a musical connection bordering on telepathy. As always, the night begins and ends with YOU! Names-in-a-hat-improv-jams for days! (well, not days, just this one day, until next month.…
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SHOAL – 14 June, 2018
SHOAL are a Manchester based collective interested in exploring movement, light, technology and improvisation. We have collaborated with composers like Eyvind Gulbrandsen, Michael Brailey and Michael Baldwin and have recently began our own research into different improvisation methods. Our improvisation at the Noise Upstairs will feature Isobel Mortimer, Jack March and Callum Coomber. Who SHOAL…
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Beck Hunters – 8 March 2018
This month’s special guests are Beck Hunters: Mick Beck – reeds, Johnny Hunter – drums, Anton Hunter – guitar “Saxophonist Mick Beck has been a fixture on the Sheffield free music scene since the early 1980s, but in this trio with the two younger Hunter brothers he sounds more like a denizen of some imaginary…
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Davis/Rogan Duo – 8 February 2018
Davis/Rogan are a Manchester based experimental duo who mainly do improvisations using an assortment of different gear. Their most recent project involved plugging different synths into guitar pedals and Ableton. Who Davis/Rogan Duo – 8 February 2018 When Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England…
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Ghost Mind – 13 July 2017
Ghost Mind consists of Jon Andriessen on guitar, kalimba and effects, Pete Robson’s horns and Stuart Wilding on percussion. All this combined with a background of found sounds gathered from around the planet. Essentially, Ghost Mind is a four-person trio, the fourthmember being the titular “Ghost”. The concept of Ghost Mind was devised while the…
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David Birchall / Simon Prince – 11 May 2017
This month’s special guest set comes from a brand new duo of familiar faces; Simon Prince and David Birchall. You’ll know Simon from his many appearances with Wolfscarers, and other groups. He’s a fiery tenor sax player who’s equally as fiery on flutes. Listen for yourself if you don’t believe me. https://wolfscarers.bandcamp.com/ David Birchall is another…
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Richard Scott’s Lightning Ensemble – 9 March 2017
The Lighting Ensemble is Richard Scott’s UK-based hyper-interactive free improvising group with longtime collaborators and brilliant improvisers, Phillip Marks, drums and David Birchall, guitar, with Scott playing analogue modular synthesizer. Intricate, intimate, dynamic, molecular and often explosive music. Richard Scott and Phillip Marks first played together in Manchester’s Bark! in the 1990s (alongside Rex Casswell…
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Barrington Brook – 13 October 2016
Barrington Brook and Gabriel Williams are a duo whose music occupies the boundaries between free improvisation, post-rock, folk and 20th century classical music. They met at university and started playing together after discovering a mutual appreciation of Derek Bailey, but move past his influence to explore further possibilities when improvising on the guitar. Who Barrington…
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Shelly Knotts & Anton Hunter – 11 August 2016
Monthly improvisation jam session with special guest set this month from Shelly Knotts (laptop) and Anton Hunter (guitar). Shelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration. Her experimental and collaborative tendencies have seen her engage with diverse musical practices and styles ranging from electroacoustic tape…
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Space Food – 9 June 2016
Noise Upstairs Is Nine Years Old! Come celebrate with Space Food! Space Food is a new group in which three fine Manchester improvisers take on the format of the traditional organ trio; Adam Fairhall on organ, Johnny Hunter on drums and Dave Birchall on guitar. The organ trio is still a rarity in free…
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Coates/Hanslip/Hunter/Simpson – 11 February 2016
This month’s special guest act is a brand new quartet, bringing together familar Noise Upstairs faces with those from slightly further afield. Bruce Coates & Mark Hanslip – saxophones Anton Hunter & Ian Simpson – guitars Bruce is a saxophonist who has performed and recorded with some of the world’s top improvisers including Paul Dunmall,…
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Space Food – 14 January 2016
Space Food is a new group in which three fine Manchester improvisers take on the format of the traditional organ trio; Adam Fairhall on organ, Johnny Hunter on drums and Dave Birchall on guitar. The organ trio is still a rarity in free improvisation, despite the rich timbral possibilties of the instrumentation. Space Food exploit…
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Rachel Margetts / Greta Buituke – 10 December 2015
Rachel Margetts and Greta Buitkute are “Body Marx”. Body Marx explores the absurd tensions of music making. Loosely structured songs and structured improvisation form the basis of experimentation with video and performance. Body Marx’s works often tackle forgotten or hidden contexts, in the process often loosing themselves in it’s own concerns.Listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bbodymarxDig deeper: Rachel Margetts Art https://soundcloud.com/reading-my-eyes Who Rachel…