Category: Performances
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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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Gloomy Planets – 27 August 2019
Hello all. Our next Todmorden event will be one day after the bank holiday and three days before Tor Fest 2019. Heather is in flower on the hills, and life is good in Tod. This month we have not one but two special guests. Our musical guest this month is Gloomy Planets, playing their…
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Bill Thompson – 8 August 2019
This month’s special guest Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs as a soloist and with a number of groups including zerospace with Lucia H Chung and Ian Stonehouse, a duo with Phil Durrant, Airfield with choreographer Ian Spink, and in the past with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others. Although originally trained as a…
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Hedge Fund Managers – 30 July 2019
This month we’re delighted to welcome Hedge Fund Managers to The Noise Upstairs Todmorden: Room frequency jamming and detune protocols narrowcast with scramble emergency code relay evocation. Corrupted crosstalk chaos pacification. Ritual derangement within self-aware pathways and unsigned posts, establishment of mutiny in the order: schismatic schematics. Dishabited apparatus delivery quotients of mediated protean focus…
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Ripsaw Catfish – 25 June 2019
This month’s guests are Ripsaw Catfish, stopping in on their short tour of the North (and London). Ripsaw Catfish are: Cath Roberts (baritone saxophone) and Anton Hunter (guitar), they have been making improvised music together for several years, and there is nothing to suggest that this won’t happen again on the 25th June. Hopefully with you…
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Emil Karlsen – 13 June 2019
Emil Karlsen’s acoustic solo project is based around making the most out of the drum set in terms of extended techniques, timbre and textures, improvised. Inspired by his Norwegian background, this project is a portrait of many years thinking compositionally and texturally about the drums, especially when put in a solo context . His main…
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The Magic City – 28 May 2019
The Noise Upstairs Todmorden will feature a collective from my favourite record, coffee, book and vintage clothing shop this side of the Mississippi – The Magic City. True to the spirit of night, they’re not totally sure about who’ll be playing, or what they’ll play. But the mood music in recent days suggests that we’ll…
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Hunter/Bass/Vulliamy /Hunter – 9 May 2019
Aby Vulliamy (viola) Anton Hunter (acoustic guitar and mandolin) Gemma Bass (violin) Johnny Hunter (drums) Brought together by Johnny, these are some of our finest musicians in the North. All from varying backgrounds, including Classical, Folk, Jazz, and Rock, they meet in the middle with their shared love of improvised music. This group will be…
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Ecka Mordecai and Kate Armitage – 30 April 2019
This month’s guests are Ecka Mordecai and Kate Armitage. Both of whom have played for us in Manchester separately, so we’re excited to hear them together in Tod! Ecka Mordecai is sound artist and composer currently based in Todmorden. She composes for ‘cello using graphic scores and text, as well as creates sound objects. Kate…
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Wheeze Furnace – 11 April 2019
Wheeze Furnace is Geoff Bright on bass sax, soprano sax and mouth and Nathan Bettany on oboe and cor anglais. A cross-Pennine airing of this Sheffield duo’s dirty laundry! Expect a soiled sonic shirt tail of involuntary revelations, asthmatic explosions and stubborn sound-stains of the inner everyday. Before and after their set will be the usual…
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Sophie Cooper – 26 March 2019
Sophie Cooper is a West Yorkshire based trombone, guitar player and vocalist. Sophie makes music that explores notions of narrative within unlikely settings through various solo and collaborative song writing projects. In addition to performing and composition, Sophie is heavily involved in the UK underground DIY scene promoting regular shows in Todmorden under the name…
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ELDA – 14 March 2019
ELDA is a longstanding duo collaboration between piano/keyboard player Andrew Woodhead and trumpeter Aaron Diaz (The Destroyers, Sid Peacock), mixing acoustic sounds with live electronics and soundscapes. For their latest project they are collaborating with Norwegian vocalist Kari Eskild Havenstrøm(Trondheim Voices, Kristoffer Lo), with whom Andrew first performed at Cheltenham Jazz Festival as part of a Trondheim/Birmingham musical exchange. This recording…
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Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker – 26 February 2019
Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker are good friends and creative collaborators whose wide-ranging work encompasses folklore, instrument design, visual arts, noise, harmony, intuition, arcana, field recordings, tinctures, icy swims, moors and mills. Except when it doesn’t. http://www.folkloretapes.co.uk http://www.samandtheplants.co.uk What better way to launch The Noise Upstairs Todmorden? Before and after their set, there will…
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Michael Perrett Rob Thorpe Duo – 14 February 2019
Michael Perrett is, amongst other things, a musician based in Manchester. He studied clarinet and composition at the RNCM. As a composer, he has written for EXAUDI and The House of Bedlam and his music has been performed internationally and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. As an improvisor he has collaborated with Otto Willberg, Sam…
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Wolf Scarers – 10th Jan 2019
Wolf Scarers, formed in 2010 by Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, are a sax duo who play improvisations that swerve from gentle meditations that almost become chamber music across to full-blown shout-ups in the true tenor sax tradition, via, possibly, messed-up marching band funk and deconstructed jazz strut. “They really are in conversation and…
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Rider//Taylor – 13 December 2018
Rider//Taylor are one of the most exciting new duos to emerge from the fertile Leeds experimental scene. Mixing fiery improvisations, delicate soundscapes and haunting melodies-the pair share a musical connection bordering on telepathy. As always, the night begins and ends with YOU! Names-in-a-hat-improv-jams for days! (well, not days, just this one day, until next month.…
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some things – 8 November 2018
some things are the ‘arresting trumpet duo’ of Chris Dowding and Ben Higham, from Norwich. They use original and other material as a basis for improvisation. This results in interlocking solos, tight unison patterns and free improvisations. They have performed at The Vortex Jazz Club, ClerkenwellARTSlab (several times), and various venues around Norfolk. In…
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HRH Trio + Whiteman/Prince/Thorpe – 15 October 2018
A collaboration with our good friends at NQ Jazz on Monday 15th October at The Whiskey Jar. Details below… HRH Trio Mark Hanslip – Saxophone Federico Reuben – Live Electronics Paul Hession – Drums Heavy improv from heavy improvisers. Listen here. Whiteman / Prince / Thorpe trio Nina Whiteman – voice/stylophone Simon Prince – flutes…
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Drift Ensemble – 11 October 2018
Comprising composer-improvisers, percussion, violin, recorder, soprano and electronics, DriftEnsemble specializes in presenting experimental contemporary music. Our collective integrates each individual’s making, demonstrating the multidisciplinary practices – composition and interpretation, improvisation, live-electronic MAX/MSP coding, musicological thinking – we engage. Media link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr187RYKYOOVSbDD7Q5WJfw Who Drift Ensemble – 11 October 2018 When Thursday, October 11, 2018 8:00pm – All…
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Adam Fairhall & Tom Ward – 13 Sept 2018
This month’s special guests are: Tom Ward and Adam Fairhall represent the fertile exchanges in creative music between Manchester and London that have occurred in recent years, involving such organisations as London’s LUME (with which Tom and Adam are associated) and Manchester’s Efpi label (on which both Tom and Adam have releases). Tom and…