Category: Performances
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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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Parallax – 1 December 2010
Parallax is one of those rare and lucky collaborations where there is a great sense of chemistry from the very beginning. Since forming the group in 2008 they have toured and recorded extensively in Europe, and present a selection of this material on their debut album Live in the UK. These musicians are musically so…
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Kacper Ziemianin, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn – 14 November 2010
Artist: Kacper Ziemianin, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn Bio: London based musicians, Kacper Zieminian, Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn, each coming from different backgrounds, met in 2007 at Middlesex University where making noise together was a natural consequence. The three form an improvisational musical act where there is no focus on musical melody,…
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Yuri Landman + Special Guests – 13 November 2010
Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier and musicologist who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn. He will be performing with participants of the HomeSwinger workshop as well as other special guests. Event held…
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The Inclusion Principle – 11 November 2010
We decided to base the name on a theory of the research physicist Wolfgang Pauli. we found a correlation in that we both worked with a digital scalpel on fields of microsounds; a science which took both our instruments and processed field recordings a little closer to the chemistry of natural sounds, complete with harmonic…
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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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Diatribes – 1 November 2010
d’incise: laptop, objects, treatements Cyril Bondi: drums, percussions and guest(s):… “magnetic freedom, interaction, intensity and fluctuation, breaths, quiverings, cracklings, bearings, masses, crash, chaos. Sound matter builded, deformed, tears off influence of the reason, imploses and becomes again the dreams behind our eyelids” diatribes, a strongly libertarian ensemble, began its existence in a Geneva basement in…
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Graculus – 14 October 2010
Graculus is an improvising duo consisting of Richard Harding (acoustic & electric guitars) and Phil Hargreaves (saxophone & flute). Originally, the duo formed for a one-off show at Tate Liverpool in 2008, but the partnership blossomed over the next 2 ½ years. Phil is an experienced improvising musician, having worked with some of the UK’s…
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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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_Scape – 9 September 2010
Brothers Norm and Rod Skipp (electronics and ‘cello) combine forces again as _scape to unveil a sonic palette featuring live electronics, instrumental performance and improvised sound. Originally formed in 2008, the duo explore the interaction of live and pre-composed electronics with instrumental performance and have appeared as part of the last two Chorlton Arts Festivals.…
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Partial Trust – 12 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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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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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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The Hunter Brothers – 8 July 2010
Anton Hunter, Johnny Hunter, Sam Andreae and Ben Cotrell lay down some law.
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Partwildhorsesmaneonbothsides – 10 June 2010
Pascal Nichols and Kelly Jones have shared the stage with acts such as Sonic Youth, Black Dice, Hrsta, Vanishing Voice, moha!, the A Band, KK Null, Birds Of Delay, Rhys Chatham, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Lucky Dragons, Corsano Flower Duo, blood stereo. They have also collectively collaborated with Os Loosers, Valerio Cosi, Christian Munthe,…
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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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Richard Scott & Phil Marks – 13 May 2010
Phillip Marks has been performing and promoting improvised music in Manchester, the UK, and Europe since the mid-80s. He is a founder member of Bark! and has been playing with pianist Stephen Grew and saxophonist Mick Beck for the best part of twenty years. Recent collaborations have included a trio tour with trombonist Alan Tomlinson…
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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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Darnall Sinfonia – 8 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…