Tag: saxophone
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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The Chorlton Radiophonic Workshop – 10 May 2018
This month’s special guests are The Chorlton Radiophonic Workshop. Regulars Alexx (Saxophone) and Jim (Synthesiser) O’Shea are joined by Andrew Rothwell (drums).Alexx and Jim have organised numerous experimental music events and installations for FutureSonic/FutureEverything, Manchester Science Week and Chorlton Arts Festival. Expect a blend of free improvisation and electronic music. Who The Chorlton Radiophonic Workshop…
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Tapiwa Svosve & David Meier – 11 January 2018
Tapiwa Svosve (saxophone) & David Meier (drums) are based in Zürich, Switzerland. They improvise and shape their own musical space in the moment drawing from many different influences. Manchester audiences might remember David from his several performances with Trio Riot and Schnellertollermeier, while Tapiwa came to Salford last year and played a duo set with…
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Deemer – 8 December 2016
Deemer is a continuing conversation that is always inquisitive, searching and fresh. We are constantly shedding old skin, evolving and innovating. The brain-child of Merijn Royaards and Dee Byrne, Deemer started life in 2006 as a weekly improvisation/electronics session in a warehouse in Hackney Wick. The project has since evolved into an installation/performance based electro-acoustic…
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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,…