Category: Performances
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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…
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“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…
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Splice & A Greater Horror – 21 March 2012
Splice’s raison d’être is to mesh together influences of contemporary jazz, free improv, loud and soft noise, punk grit, ambient music, and more… with seamless blends or blunt juxtapositions. Featuring Alex Bonney on trumpet and electronics, Robin Fincker on tenor sax and clarinet, Dave Smith on drums, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on bass guitar and electronics,…
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Jez Riley French – 14 March 2012
Using intuitive composition, field recording, improvisation and photography, Jez has been exploring his enjoyment of detail, simplicity and his emotive response to places and situations for the past 3 decades. Alongside solo performances and exhibitions he collaborates with other artists, runs the ‘in place’ project on field recording – a subject on which he also…
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Federico Reuben – 12 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…
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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…
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Adam Beckley – 11 April 2012
Adam Beckley is an experimental musician from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, creating hypnotic textures of sound.His first solo work ‘Revere’ was released by the label ‘Carnage Club’ in August 2011. Adam has also released a split with Los Angeles musician ‘Beru’ (of Digitalis fame) which is available through his own cassette label ‘Armed Within…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Diatribes – 3 November 2011
Following their amazing gig last year, D’incise and Cyril return with an expanded line-up featuring some of the UK’s best improvisers… Cyril Bondi – drums/percussion D’incise – objects/laptop Dominic Lash – double bass Phil Durrant – laptop/sound manipulation Hannah Marshall – cello Patrick Farmer – objects/percussion Also playing will be the Manchester super-group that is…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Baylis/Howard/Sterling Trio – 12 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 Howard Drums Max…