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  • 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…

  • strikethrough me & you – 13 March 2014

    strikethrough me & you – 13 March 2014

    strikethrough me & you is a duo between Rodrigo Constanzo and Sam Andreae which explores improvisation through battle and game pieces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqfksFWRlqk https://vimeo.com/82950622 http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com http://www.samandreae.com Click here to download the performances Who strikethrough me & you When Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:00pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20…

  • Linda Jankowska – 14 November 2013

    Linda Jankowska – 14 November 2013

    I believe in experience. In the immaterial impact of experience, because it’s the only thing that lasts. I am an active performer in the field of contemporary classical music. In that context I perform as a member of the Distractfold Ensemble. I have a genuine interest in collaborative projects, including dance companies, sonic ensembles, and…

  • Nicolas Dobson & Anton Hunter – 8 August 2013

    Nicolas Dobson & Anton Hunter – 8 August 2013

    Nicolas Dobson is a drummer / violinist from Skipton who grew up in the punk / DIY / noise scenes of Leeds and Manchester while simultaneously getting a classical education at the RNCM. Since 2005 he has been mainly playing free, collaborating with northern improvisers and sound artists including David Birchall, Kelly Jones, Dan Bridgwood-Hill,…

  • Strotter Inst. – 11 July 2013

    Strotter Inst. – 11 July 2013

    Strotter Inst. from Switzerland creates music through the use of old, modified, Lenco-turntables which he modifies and manipulates in countless ways. Rubber bands are affixed to the rotating turntable and plucked by the stylus, records have tape affixed in patterns to create textural rhythms, electrical current is sent via live wires to the needle to…

  • Sixth Birthday! feat. Norm Skipp & Bethan Roberts – 13 June 2013

    Sixth Birthday! feat. Norm Skipp & Bethan Roberts – 13 June 2013

    South Manchester’s Premier Free-Improvisation Session celebrates it’s SIXTH BIRTHDAY!! Six years ago the kind folk at Fuel agreed to let us make some hideous noises in their upstairs room, and thanks to your and their ongoing support we’re still here six years on. Helping us celebrate tonight is a cor anglais/oboe and electronics duo made…

  • Phil Marks & Rodrigo Constanzo – 9 May 2013

    Phil Marks & Rodrigo Constanzo – 9 May 2013

    Phillip Marks was involved in performance and organisation of innovative musical events in Manchester for many years until moving to Halifax in 2011. He plays with electro-acoustic band Bark! and has collaborated for many years with pianist Stephen Grew and saxophonist/bassoonist Mick Beck in several groups. He is currently a member of the Alan Tomlinson…

  • Tout Croche – 11 April 2013

    Tout Croche – 11 April 2013

    Tout Croche is Stephen Harvey & Dominic Thibault A haven of post-genre sonic experimentation Music making that marvels at noise From beautiful ambience to digital distortion www.toutcroche.com The Howl Won’t Be Silent  Improvised set Utilizing only the simplest of apparatus: guitar, voice and the no-input feedback rack. For the love of red lights , we…

  • Andrew Cheetham & David Birchall – 14 March 2013

    Andrew Cheetham & David Birchall – 14 March 2013

    “Drums & guitar riffing improv” The Wire “Andrew Cheetham and David Birchall create a psychedelic maelstrom of sound that threatens to atomise your walls” Mojo “The duo has a great artistic empathy going on between them that gives birth to some fantastically fucked up jams on here.” Was Ist Das “While the pair may appear…

  • Andrew Cheetham & David Birchall – 13 March 2013

    Andrew Cheetham & David Birchall – 13 March 2013

    “Drums & guitar riffing improv” The Wire “Andrew Cheetham and David Birchall create a psychedelic maelstrom of sound that threatens to atomise your walls” Mojo “The duo has a great artistic empathy going on between them that gives birth to some fantastically fucked up jams on here.” Was Ist Das “While the pair may appear…

  • Sam Andreae – 10 January 2013

    Sam Andreae – 10 January 2013

    “I’ve been working for some years now on live electronics, I mostly use analogue and homemade gear. Noise boxes, pick-ups, contact mics, etc… I’ve spent much time considering how to integrate the electronic components with my acoustic saxophone playing and the different ways the sounds can interact. I use the set-up in solo performances and…

  • Mick Beck Trio – 9 January 2013

    Mick Beck Trio – 9 January 2013

    On the free scene since 1980, as an improvising big band leader to solo performer, Mick is known for his energy and originality: his playing covers the full emotional gamut from heartbreaking to mischievous, and from abstracts to compelling swing. His improvising big band Feet Packets was unique in the UK and influential in the…

  • Wolf Scarers Quartet – 13 December 2012

    Wolf Scarers Quartet – 13 December 2012

    Wolf Scarers, formed in 2010 by Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, are a sax duo who play improvisations that swerve from gentle meditations that almost become chamber music across to full-blown shout-ups in the true tenor sax tradition, via, possibly, messed-up marching band funk and deconstructed jazz strut. “They really are in conversation and have…

  • Wire Assembly – 8 November 2012

    Wire Assembly – 8 November 2012

    WIRE ASSEMBLY Neil Carver/Ian Simpson/John Jasnoch: electric guitars The guitar trio Wire Assembly have been resurrected/disinterred after 20 years of hibernation. John Jasnoch and Neil Carver have coerced Ian Simpson into being the Third Man. Covering an enormous range of sound from a blue tit pecking at an aluminium milk bottle top (there were milk…

  • Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 11 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 11 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia [sonja’ pa’so rɔ’kja] is a young artist who took a degree in instrumental and Electro-Acoustic Composition from the Université de Montréal after a double collegial diploma in natural sciences and music. She studied composition with Michel Tétreault, José Evangelista, Michel Smith, Michel Longtin and Jean Piché. Her work has been presented in Québec,…

  • Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 10 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia – 10 October 2012

    Sonia Paço-Rocchia [sonja’ pa’so rɔ’kja] is a young artist who took a degree in instrumental and Electro-Acoustic Composition from the Université de Montréal after a double collegial diploma in natural sciences and music. She studied composition with Michel Tétreault, José Evangelista, Michel Smith, Michel Longtin and Jean Piché. Her work has been presented in Québec,…

  • Richard Knight – 13 September 2012

    Richard Knight – 13 September 2012

    Raised in the surroundings of conflicting natural beauty and industrial decay of northern England, many of Knight’s primary influences are based around the clash between organic and electronic. He began producing music and playing in diverse experimental bands/projects in and around Leeds, but had always been motivated by the the possibilities of encapsulating avant-garde stylings…

  • Fernando Perales – 12 September 2012

    Fernando Perales – 12 September 2012

    Fernando Perales/Viva La Muerte “the Andrei Rublev experience” tour/Europe/2012 Fernando Perales, musician, performer, cinema critic and box trainer, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1971. He is one of the most important figures of the experimental music and avant garde scene of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. Since 1995, for almost 10 years, Fernando…

  • John Pope – 9 August 2012

    John Pope – 9 August 2012

    John Pope on a mini-tour from his native Newcastle, presents a solo improvisation for double bass and tape recorders. John is a fine composer and improviser and has run projects such as the Improvisers Orchestra of the North (ION) based at the Sage, which displayed an incredible performance at the Gateshead Jazz Festival in 2009…

  • John Pope – 8 August 2012

    John Pope – 8 August 2012

    John Pope on a mini-tour from his native Newcastle, presents a solo improvisation for double bass and tape recorders. John is a fine composer and improviser and has run projects such as the Improvisers Orchestra of the North (ION) based at the Sage, which displayed an incredible performance at the Gateshead Jazz Festival in 2009…