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  • Rodrigo Constanzo – 10 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo – 10 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo will be performing a live set of improvised music using his ‘drums’ setup which includes very little drums at all. A three piece, nearly child’s sized kit, is modified, and augmented by home made electronic instruments including a three tiered zither like instrument, ‘electronic whisks’, circuit-bent drum machines, a nearly endless amount of brick-a-brack,…

  • Rodrigo Constanzo – 9 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo – 9 May 2012

    Rodrigo Constanzo will be performing a live set of improvised music using his ‘drums’ setup which includes very little drums at all. A three piece, nearly child’s sized kit, is modified, and augmented by home made electronic instruments including a three tiered zither like instrument, ‘electronic whisks’, circuit-bent drum machines, a nearly endless amount of brick-a-brack,…

  • Amphibolous – 12 April 2012

    Amphibolous – 12 April 2012

    Amphibolous is Ash Steel, Adam Webster (Swung Dash) and Si Jones (Noise Club, Hot Hail). The group first got together in 2011 to work on a soundtrack for a short film about a failed DJ, but their musical chemistry shone through and Amphibolous was born. Amphibolous combines electronica, noise and free improvisation in one rollercoaster…

  • “Drums” – 8 March 2012

    “Drums” – 8 March 2012

    “Drums” A new quartet led by Johnny Hunter (drums/percussion) and featuring Rodrigo Constanzo (drums/percussion), Simon Prince (saxophone/percussion) and James Adolpho (double bass/percussion). Click here to download the performances. Who “Drums” – 8 March 2012 When Thursday, March 8, 2012 8:30pm – All Ages Where Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW Other…

  • 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…

  • Jason Kahn – 8 February 2012

    Jason Kahn – 8 February 2012

    Jason Kahn (electronics) Jason Kahn was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in Los Angeles. He moved to Europe in 1990, first living in Berlin until 1999 then moving to Switzerland. He is currently based in Zürich. Kahn came of musical age in the late 1970’s, playing drums in punk bands and later…

  • Jason Kahn – 9 February 2012

    Jason Kahn – 9 February 2012

    Jason Kahn (electronics) Jason Kahn was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in Los Angeles. He moved to Europe in 1990, first living in Berlin until 1999 then moving to Switzerland. He is currently based in Zürich. Kahn came of musical age in the late 1970’s, playing drums in punk bands and later…

  • Helmut Lemke – 12 January 2012

    Helmut Lemke – 12 January 2012

    http://www.sound-art.de Imagine you have a plastic bottle…. You fill it with water and you hang it upside down…. You make a little hole in the cap…. and then you sit back, you wait and you listen – drips appear – they fall – they hit sounds … inaudible when the water squeezes through the little…

  • Helmut Lemke – 11 January 2012

    Helmut Lemke – 11 January 2012

    http://www.sound-art.de Imagine you have a plastic bottle…. You fill it with water and you hang it upside down…. You make a little hole in the cap…. and then you sit back, you wait and you listen – drips appear – they fall – they hit sounds … inaudible when the water squeezes through the little…

  • 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.

  • L’Ocelle Mare – 23 October 2011

    L’Ocelle Mare – 23 October 2011

    Thomas Bonvalet, (born October, 1977) lives between the forest of « la Double », in the south-west of France and Alpedrete, Spain. Guitar player of the band Cheval de frise between 1998 and 2004, he made is first solo show under the name of l’ocelle mare in September 2005. He toured Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, USA…

  • Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 9th November 2011

    Sam Andreae & Anton Hunter – 9th 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…

  • 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.…

  • Martin Archer & Steve Chase – 14 September 2011

    Martin Archer & Steve Chase – 14 September 2011

    Martin Archer – iPad, woodwind Steve Chase – guitar, miscellaneous instruments Martin and Steve have played together regularly over the last few years in the context of larger groups (Coastguard All Stars, Gated Community, Juxtavoices, Showroom Ensemble), but this will be their first concert as a duo.  To mark the occasion they have chosen to…

  • 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…

  • Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 13 October 2011

    Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 13 October 2011

    Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – The  Bhs 3 are a  recently formed Trio exploring  the Sax/Double Bass/Drums improvised  format.The Trio are currently recording a CD  for release later in the year. Melodic, Rhythmic and Textural explorations. Individually they have worked with musicians such as Stuart McCallum, John Stevens,Phil Wachsmann and Dudu Pukwana. Paul Baylis Alto Sax Jon…

  • Beck, Hunter, & Perez Trio – 10 August 2011

    Beck, Hunter, & Perez Trio – 10 August 2011

    Hervé Perez (electonics, sax), who uses many methods to forge vibrations and sculpt the harmonies that will rattle the nerves of academia, will be joining forces with UK Free Improvisation stalwart, Mick Beck (reeds & whistles), the critically acclaimed free jazz sax and bassoon player.  Providing some much needed percussion will be The Noise Upstairs’…

  • Acrid Lactations – 11 August 2011

    Acrid Lactations – 11 August 2011

    Acrid Lactations is the duo of primitivist improvisers Susan Fitzpatrick and Stuart Arnot.  With no fixed instrumentation or approach, they use musical/non-musical, acoustic/electronic, live/pre-recorded sounds in a psychedelic stramash of noise, free-jazz, concrète, sound poetry and confusion, hanging onto the wet end of the Group Ongaku/Nihilist Spasm Band/LAFMS/A Band/Prick Decay continuum. http://totalvermin.blogspot.com/ Click here to…

  • Michel Doneda & Jonas Kocher + Wolf Scarers – 26 September 2011

    Michel Doneda & Jonas Kocher + Wolf Scarers – 26 September 2011

    Michel Doneda soprano saxophone Jonas Kocher accordion, objects Accordion and saxophone, an association of more conventional after all, but beware! the sign is never the road! Kocher and Doneda have their own way, reinvesting their respective instruments by focusing on the infinitely small, in the heart of the matter, the elusive textures, projects in the real space…

  • “Six Memos” featuring lots of NUS regulars

    “Six Memos” featuring lots of NUS regulars

    Some of you might remember Daniel Ledda from when he performed back in December 2010. Well part of why he was in Manchester was that he was making a film based on Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino. Well some of the clips from that have started surfacing online and you can…