Tag: sheffield
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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
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Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, and Iain Harrison – 9 February 2011
New trio featuring our very own Rodrigo Constanzo, along with Ray Evanoff, which you might remember from Atemnt, who released an amazing CD on NUS Records, and Iain Harrison. This is their CD launch tour/gig. The record is amazing. For more info: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com http://rayevanoff.wordpress.com Click here to download the recordings
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Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern – 12 January 2011
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela Guyton and Rodrigo Constanzo create a new event that requires the audience to consider this merger of music and art as a single expression. The concept for Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern took shape in…
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Daniele Ledda – 8 December 2010
About Daniele Ledda Composer. He studied wind instruments, piano, composition, electronic music, information technology. He worked as a teacher, and in the field of composition, improvisation, sound recording, electronic music, music for dance, for video and theater. He has worked with: Alessandro Olla, Roberto Pellegrini, David Barittoni, Fernando Grillo, Marcus Stockhausen, Fabrizio Casti, Marcello Pusceddu, Franco…
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John Jasnoch & Charlie Collins – 10 November 2010
John Jasnoch MySpace Bio Began life in 1953 in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. The compost heap of the Garden of England. After interest in instrumental music of Bert Weedon and then The Shadows, began listening to Blues artisits. Acquired Dobro resonator guitar. As a a result of working as…
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Graculus Podcast – 14 October 2010
1: Human (excerpt) – Maggie Nicols & Phil Hargreaves (from the forthcoming album Human) 2: Summer Again – Phil Hargreaves & Glenn Weyant (Friday Morning Everywhere, whi CD06) 3: Unholy Minimalism – Mneme Ensemble & John Edwards (unreleased) 4: Vacant Lots 1965-66 – Caroline Kraabel/Mark Sanders/Veryan Weston (Mass Producers CD01) 5: Playtime – as…
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Martin Archer – 13 October 2010
Martin Archer – Sopranino, alto and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet, bass recorder, violectronics, keyboards, software instruments Since his move in the early 1990s from free jazz saxophonist to studio based electronics composer, Archer has produced a series of highly acclaimed CDs which combine electronics-based structures with written and improvised parts for brass, woodwind, strings and…
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Partial Trust – 11 August 2010
Partial Trust is a new collaboration between Richard Knight and Abigail Sanders, exploiting the relationship between unadulterated acoustic and electronic phenomena. Sourcing from the hauntingly rich and pure timbres of the French Horn, Abigail emphasizes the natural acoustics of the instrument through multiple extended techniques, in a never-ending attempt to synchronize with (or combat against)…
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Darnall Sinfonia Podcast – 8 August 2010
Eclat – Pierre Boulez Duration II – Morton Feldman Get In Line – Art Ensemble of Chicago Bungee – Harmen Fraanje Quartet Silver Apples of the Moon (extract) – Subotnick Cathode #5 – Otomo Yoshihide Snagglepuss – Naked City Three Architects Called Gabrielle (Just What I Expected) – Django Bates Don’t Try To Use Me…
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Sheffield New Music Ensemble – 14 July 2010
The University of Sheffield New Music Ensemble provides a regular showcase for new music and there is also an established tradition of performance of music theatre and operatic work as well as compositions for larger ensembles such as concert band, chamber orchestra and chamber choir.
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Peter Faircloug & Hayley Youell – 9 June 2010
Since graduating from the City of Leeds College of Music with Distinction in Drums and Percussion, Peter Fairclough has performed and/or recorded with Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Ute Lemper, Huw Warren, Peter Whyman, Steve Berry, John Harle, Kenny Davern, Peter King, The Matrix Ensemble, The Bournemouth Sinfonietta, The Mike Westbrook Orchestra and The Theatre Royal…
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Mick Beck & Yvonna Magda – 12 May 2010
Mick Beck has been working since 1980 in jazz, free music and as a composer and club/ festival organiser. As a composer he looks for structures that can diversify and strengthen the impact of improvisation; as an improvisor his aim is to mix compelling rhythms, zaney melodies, changes of mood and flexibility in playing techniques…
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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…
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Apropos – 11 February 2010
Apropos are Iain Harrison (saxophones) and Scott Mc Laughlin (computer), playing music that lives somewhere between the composed/notated and the freely improvised. Scott Mc Laughlin is a composer (studies with PA Tremblay, Bryn Harrison, Christopher Fox and James Saunders) whose work focuses on the ambiguity of minimal surfaces involving inharmonic and repetitive materials. Iain Harrison…
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Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern Podcast – 10 December 2009
Gosh dern it, I love all these songs. They are the soundtrack to my 20s, and are not just the songs I’ve been listening to lately. The only exception may or may not be Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush, as I’ve just recently discovered it and I can’t really predict its staying power…
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The Navigators – 13 August 2009
For some years Charlie Collins and John Jasnoch had been exploring the possibilities of adding a third member to their long-standing duo. Within minutes of Beatrix becoming that third person it was obvious that the resulting trio was something quite special. Their sound is characterized by a unique combination of “world” instruments (ud, ukelele, mbira)…
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Mick Beck – 11 December 2008
The Noise Upstairs hosts three of Shefield’s finest improvisers from the FREENOISE label. A trio of Mick Beck (incredible tenor sax)/ Stefano Giust (Italian version of Corsano on drums but better!) and Jonny Drury on electric guitar. Together it’s going to be a riotous affair, but also at times beautiful! Their names will be in…